Text messages released by the House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot shows former White House aide Hope Hicks worrying about the impact the insurrection would have on future job prospects of Trump administration officials, telling another aide that “we all look like domestic terrorists now.”
“In one day he ended every future opportunity that doesn’t include speaking engagements at the local proud boys chapter,” Hicks said in a text with Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff Julie Radford on the afternoon of Jan. 6.
“And all of us who didn’t have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed,” Hicks added. “I’m so mad and upset. We all look like domestic terrorists now.”
“Oh yes I’ve been crying for an hour,” Radford responded.
“Not being dramatic but looks like we are all fucked. Alyssa looks like a genius,” Hicks said referring to Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former White House Director of Strategic Communications who resigned weeks before the Jan. 6 attack.
Griffin has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration since her resignation.
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