"The long-serving adviser to former President Trump sat for a transcribed deposition as the investigation is winding down and after the panel subpoenaed Trump to testify in the coming weeks. The former counselor to the president did not play a major role in the White House response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, in which hundreds of Trump's supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol and interrupted Joe Biden's presidential victory certification."
"The longtime Trump communications aide was still working there at the time but left the White House in the days afterward. Hicks is no stranger to investigations of her former boss. She was a key witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, delivering important information to the special counsel's office about Trump's attempts to obstruct that investigation."
Hope Hicks was interviewed by the House Jan. 6 committee in a closed-door meeting and sat for a transcribed deposition as the investigation wound down and after the panel subpoenaed former President Trump. She did not play a major role in the White House response to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection; she was working there at the time but left the White House in the days afterward. Hicks previously served as a key witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, providing information about Trump's attempts to obstruct that probe. Hicks declined in 2019 to answer certain House Democratic questions about her White House tenure, citing privilege.
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