HOPEQ Hicks, the White House communications director and a close adviser to President Donald Trump, has resigned after appearing before the House of Representatives at a hearing on Russia's intervention in the 2016 presidential election, the White House said on Wednesday.
HOPEZ Hicks, the communications director of the US presidency and one of Donald Trump's closest advisers, resigned on Wednesday, a day after she appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of a hearing on Russia's intervention in the 2016 presidential election.
"Hopp is fantastic and did an excellent job," said Trump. "I can not find the words to adequately express my gratitude to President Trump," Trump said, without explaining the reasons for her sudden resignation.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Hicks had not been scheduled to leave her job but was expected to do so "in the coming weeks."
Sanders has denied that Hicks' resignation was linked in any way to the closed hearing of the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, during which the White House communications director questioned Russia's intervention in the presidential election, in which the 29-year- The questions addressed to them.
The 29-year-old Hicks, who is generally known for her silence, was just responding to questions that had already been approved, a behavior that was preceded by other members of the inner circle of Trump when they appeared before Congress, notably former chief strategist Steve Bannon.
The communications director of the White House, especially from questions about her work and those related to the contacts between Trump and Russia, fled after the Republican candidate won the November 8, 2016 presidential election and the White House and Moscow after the billionaire took office on 20 January 2017, Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley.
"They are implementing the White House's instructions not to answer some questions," said Quigley, a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
Democrat MP Denny Heck told Bloomberg news agency that the presidential adviser's hearing was "like someone listening to Bannon Second."
The House Intelligence Committee held the hearing as part of an investigation into whether the Trump campaign team had cooperated with Russia in trying to influence the outcome of the presidential election in late 2016.
