Donald Trump White House Aide Says January 6 Capitol Riot Made Them 'All Look Like Domestic Terrorists,' Hurting Them Professionally
Newly released documents from the House January 6 panel investigating the Capitol riot showed that Donald Trump White House aide Hope Hicks expressed her anger over the former president's actions in a series of text messages.
In a flurry of angry text messages on January 6, 2021, Hicks wrote to Ivanka Trump's chief of staff, Julie Radford: "In one day, he [Trump] ended every future opportunity that doesn't include speaking engagements at the local Proud Boys chapter."
Hicks noted that they all "look like domestic terrorists" amid the former president's supporters breaching the U.S. Capitol on that day, hurting them professionally.
Hicks wrote another message saying that all of them who "didn't have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed."
She noted that she was "so mad and upset," and they were "all f**ked" to which Radford replied that she had been "crying for an hour."
Radford also indicated that she had already received a "blow off email" from Visa, losing a job opportunity. Hicks also mentioned Alyssa Farah Griffin, who was Trump's former director of strategic communications.
The former Trump White House aide said that Griffin "looks like a genius." Griffin resigned several weeks before the insurrection and after the November 2020 election.
Griffin earlier said she stepped down from her post as she saw "where this was heading." Griffin is now a political commentator for CNN and co-host of ABC's "The View."
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January 6 Capitol Riot Newly Released Documents
Hope Hicks also discussed with Julie Radford Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's in-law and supermodel Karlie Kloss, tweeting that Donald Trump's response to the election was anti-American.
"Unreal," Radford said.
The newly released documents also showed that the Secret Service dispatched a security team to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, a few minutes after Trump announced during his Ellipse speech that he would join the marchers heading there.
The former president called his supporters to "walk down Pennsylvania Avenue" with him to the Capitol.
Internal communications documents showed that the Secret Service Joint Operations Center Counter Surveillance Unit sent an email announcing that Trump announced plans to head to the Capitol with the crowd. However, the former president's name was redacted.
"Per the announcement of (redacted) to the Capitol, a response team is being dedicated to the Capitol," the agents said in the email.
President's code name used by agents was usually redacted in publicly released internal communications.
The documents also detail that the Secret Service agency encountered technical difficulties and confiscated dozens of weapons on January 6, 2021.
Secret Service also confiscated hundreds of cans of pepper spray, body armor, knives, and blunt weapons from around 28,000 people.
January 6 Panel's Probe
Jared Kushner provided emails to the January 6 panel probing the Capitol riot. The emails showed that Donald Trump wanted to trademark the phrase "Rigged Election!" days after Election Day in 2020.
Former Trump aide Dan Scavino emailed Kushner with a request from Trump. The email was dated November 9, 2020.
The email noted that Trump wanted to trademark or own rights to "Save America PAC!" and "Rigged Election!" Scavino noted in the email that he did not know who to see or ask regarding the matter.
Kushner then forwarded the request and included Eric Trump, Alex Cannon, a Trump lawyer; the chief financial officer of Trump's 2020 campaign, Sean Dollman; and Trump campaign lawyer, Justin Clark. Kushner wrote in the email: "Guys - can we do ASAP please."
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Written by: Mary Webber
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