Hope Hicks will reportedly be Trump's next White House communications director

Hope Hicks, new White House communications director?
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Hope Hicks, President Trump's White House director of strategic communications, will be promoted to communications director, filling the hole left by Anthony Scaramucci's departure, The Daily Caller's Rachel Stoltzfoos reports, citing a White House insider. Trump has already offered the role to Hicks, one of his most trusted aides, and she has accepted, The Daily Caller says. Hicks did not offer any response in the report.

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