Amid White House Order To Keep Quiet, Potential Testimony By Greenwich's Hope Hicks Seen As Key

President Trump and the White House continue to fight every Congressional subpoena. But the Republican administration's strategy may cause trouble for Trump's former communications director from Connecticut.

Hope Hicks of Greenwich, the White House's former director of strategic communications.
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Jon Craig

06/06/2019 10:00 a.m.

Hope Hicks, a Greenwich native, is among a long line of past and present Trump higher-ups to ignore subpoenas to testify before Congress.

This week, Hicks and another top Trump aide, Annie Donaldson, defied House Judiciary Committee subpoenas for documents relating to their work in the White House.

Hicks and Donaldson now join other subpoena recipients -- Attorney General William Barr, former White House counsel Don McGahn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in turning down orders to testify before Congress.

Next week, the Judiciary Committee is set to hold hearings aimed at bringing life the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Former Richard Nixon White House counsel John Dean, best known for his testimony about the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon's resignation as president, is expected to join a congressional panel of former federal prosecutors and legal experts to discuss evidence set forth in Mueller's report.

According to political observers, televised hearings in the Democratic-led House are important because most American voters -- and some members of Congress -- have not even read Mueller's report. As Watergate and John Dean proved in the early 1970s, live testimony on TV can have a wider impact than written evidence or media coverage.

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