# How long does Hope Hicks have? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 13, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746 "2018-02-13T02:43:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/41 "2018-03-01T06:54:13Z")
> [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](#): > > I guess I imagined a scene with the bloated Donald lying on a chaise lounge with his tongue out as he pulls a chained, metal bikini clad Hope toward him. Not sure who would be the little guy laughing his head off. Maybe Li’l Donald? Sessions. It’s the part he was born to play. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/42 "2018-03-01T08:11:50Z")
> [@](#): > > …Mr. Corallo is planning to tell Mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with Mr. Trump and Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, according to the three people. Mr. Corallo planned to tell investigators that Ms. Hicks said during the call that emails written by Donald Trump Jr. before the Trump Tower meeting — in which the younger Mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians — “will never get out.” That left Mr. Corallo with concerns that Ms. Hicks could be contemplating obstructing justice, the people said… > **[Mueller Zeros In on Story Put Together About Trump Tower Meeting (Published...](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/us/politics/trump-russia-hope-hicks-mueller.html)** > > Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, has pressed witnesses about a statement hastily written last summer aboard Air Force One and wants to know more from President Trump. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/43 "2018-03-01T10:04:41Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > She’s an attractive young conservative woman with a communications background. I expect that she’ll like her Fox News dressing room just fine. Well, she’s already got the leather skirt… > **[Analysing the style of Hope Hicks, who went from teen model to Donald Trump's...](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/analysing-style-hope-hicks-went-teen-model-donald-trumps-right/)** > > The rise and rise of Hope Hicks may be one of the defining sub-narratives in the age of Trump. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/44 "2018-03-01T13:15:29Z")
I was sort of hoping to see Jesse Jackson outside the White House, leading a chorus of “Keep Hope Alive”. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/45 "2018-03-01T13:46:47Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > So, I have an employee who testifies in an investigation where I am the subject. I denigrate them to the point that they quit. > > Am I tampering with a witness? Trump wanted to fire Robert Mueller. At this point, a little provincial witness tampering is like jaywalking across a street at midnight in Detroit. It’s technically wrong but law enforcement has so many other things to deal with right now that it doesn’t even merit a small fine. > [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Sessions. It’s the part he was born to play. No, he was destined for [this](http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Mother_Possum). Or the ‘bad’ Keebler elf that was thrown out of the tree for repeatedly spitting in the cookie dough. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/46 "2018-03-01T14:01:25Z")
Without looking…Granny? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/47 "2018-03-01T14:08:40Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Without looking…Granny? Sessions for Possum Queen! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/48 "2018-03-01T14:31:59Z")
Y’all make fun, sure. But just remember it is only Jeff Sessions sense of professional ethics that keeps Trump from appointing an Attorney General who will scuttle the whole Russia investigation. His recusal protects Mueller. You guys think if Sessions resigns the first question Trump will ask potential replacements won’t be, “So you’re gonna shoot that Mueller asshole, right? Right?” ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/49 "2018-03-01T14:42:21Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > So, I have an employee who testifies in an investigation where I am the subject. I denigrate them to the point that they quit. > > Am I tampering with a witness? Possibly, but not in a way that HELPS you. #StupidStupidWatergate ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/50 "2018-03-01T14:50:03Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Y’all make fun, sure. But just remember it is only Jeff Sessions sense of professional ethics that keeps Trump from appointing an Attorney General who will scuttle the whole Russia investigation. His recusal protects Mueller. > > You guys think if Sessions resigns the first question Trump will ask potential replacements won’t be, “So you’re gonna shoot that Mueller asshole, right? Right?” But the first question asked in the toady’s confirmation hearing would be “would you fire the Special Counsel?” All it would take would be two Republican defections to scuttle the appointment of someone willing to kill the investigation. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/51 "2018-03-01T15:00:44Z")
So the interim does it. I’m not willing to assume that a Saturday Night Massacre is beyond the pale. I don’t believe there’s any level of shame in this administration. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/52 "2018-03-01T16:11:05Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > …Jeff Sessions sense of professional ethics… I am so glad I was reading this on my iPad. If I had seen this while standing at my workstation I’d be wiping coffee off the screen and trying to scrounge a new keyboard! You are truly a dry wit of legendary character. Stanger ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/53 "2018-03-01T16:24:12Z")
Trust me, it’s surreal to me, too. But it does appear that one thing is the finger in the dike keeping the Mueller investigation alive. It’s not like Trump would get impeached if he actually canned Mueller. The R congress would never have the stones to do it. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/54 "2018-03-01T16:27:27Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > I am so glad I was reading this on my iPad. If I had seen this while standing at my workstation I’d be wiping coffee off the screen and trying to scrounge a new keyboard! You are truly a dry wit of legendary character. > > Stanger Jeff Sessions is currently under fire from the President precisely because of his integrity when it comes to how a law should be followed (in this case, the referral of the question of misconduct regarding the FBI and the FISA to the Inspector General). The Attorney General may have a set of political beliefs that you find objectionable, but it’s his unwillingness to be corrupt for his boss that stands between the current state of things and the possibility of the federal prosecutorial office being used to do nothing but ferret out and persecute those opposed to the President. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/55 "2018-03-01T16:43:47Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Y’all make fun, sure. But just remember it is only Jeff Sessions sense of professional ethics that keeps Trump from appointing an Attorney General who will scuttle the whole Russia investigation. His recusal protects Mueller. > > You guys think if Sessions resigns the first question Trump will ask potential replacements won’t be, “So you’re gonna shoot that Mueller asshole, right? Right?” The investigation is so far along that it is too late to fire Mueller, and even if Dotard Very Stable Genius were to do so there are a fair number of State Attorney Generals who will be perfectly happy to hire the man to pursue the same investigation. Given that Mueller and the [State of New York](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/30/manafort-mueller-probe-attorney-general-242191) are already cooperating on the Manafort case, it wouldn’t surprise me if NYAG Schneiderman doesn’t have a contract with Bob Mueller’s name in all the right spaces… just waiting for a signature… in his metaphorical desk drawer. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/56 "2018-03-01T17:01:59Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Trust me, it’s surreal to me, too. But it does appear that one thing is the finger in the dike keeping the Mueller investigation alive. It’s not like Trump would get impeached if he actually canned Mueller. The R congress would never have the stones to do it. Ryan and McConnell aren’t going to take action to impeach or remove Trump regardless of what Mueller finds. Trump has been correct about exactly one thing; he could literally shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight, and his suppoters, including a majority of Republicans currently in control of both houses of Congress, would give him a pass. Jeff Sessions may feel that he has some kind of ethical qualms about this particular issue but overall he’s about as ethical as a con man in a Jim Thompson novel. His flatly lying in his confirmation hearings has clearly demonstrated his (lack of) commitment to professional ethics. That he’s even slightly defiant of Trump (probably more for wanting to distance himself from the inevitable fallout) is not a cause of grand applause and celebration. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/57 "2018-03-01T17:16:31Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > But the first question asked in the toady’s confirmation hearing would be “would you fire the Special Counsel?” All it would take would be two Republican defections to scuttle the appointment of someone willing to kill the investigation. But Trump can appoint a temporary replacement for 210 days without Senate approval from the pool of anyone who has been previously approved for any position in his administration via the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. So he just needs to make one of his other inept administration toadies head of the Justice Department long enough to fire everyone. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/58 "2018-03-01T17:40:06Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > … That he’s even slightly defiant of Trump (probably more for wanting to distance himself from the inevitable fallout) is not a cause of grand applause and celebration. … It’s more a sign of how far the bar has been lowered that even this tiny demonstration of any ethics at all is notable. The prospect that such Senate inaction to egregious abuses of power could be reasonably expected to occur also gives me a sad realization of how limited our set of checks and balances actually are. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/59 "2018-03-01T19:09:16Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Possibly, but not in a way that HELPS you. #StupidStupidWatergate [The Worst and the Stupidest!](http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/1973/06/13) (Garry Trudeau hadn’t seen nothin’ yet.) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746/60 "2018-03-01T20:49:46Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > … She’s under criminal investigation, she lost her boyfriend, her boyfriend was revealed to be a two-time wife beater, and she’s got her boss/sugar daddy pressuring her to do whatever it takes to keep him out of jail. > I suppose that it’s not inconceivable that she was fired, but I suspect she’s just decided that the sugar ain’t sweet enough. Nothing wrong with your analysis of Hicks’ possible reasoning. But I believe we’ll eventually learn that she _was_ fired, and that it was a John Kelly operation from start to finish (as was the crescendo of revelations that resulted in Jared Kushner losing his interim security clearance.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-does-hope-hicks-have/808746.md?page=4)