Hope Hicks is returning to the White House


One of President Trump's most trusted aides is making a comeback.
Hope Hicks, Trump's close adviser during the 2016 election and eventual White House communications director, has accepted a role that will put her back on Trump's staff. After resigning from the Trump team in 2018, Hicks will soon return as a counselor to the president, the White House confirms to The New York Times.
Hicks will report to Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, and will share the same title as Kellyanne Conway, when she begins her job within the next few weeks. Hicks worked on Trump's 2016 run and will do the same this year, a senior official told the Times. She'll also work on projects Kushner oversees — presumably his work in the Middle East and on criminal justice reform.
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Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia repeatedly mentioned Hicks. She had given several hours of testimony to the House Intelligence Committee in March 2018, and resigned from the White House the next day. She testified for the House Judiciary Committee again in summer 2019. Hicks had been working as Fox's chief communications officer since late 2018.
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