The House’s January 6th Committee has released text messages from within Trump World, giving liberal America a bit of red meat to chew on.
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The text messages include musings from Hope Hicks, then a top advisor to President Donald Trump, whom we are supposed to care about.
Most notably, Hicks wrote “we all look like domestic terrorists now,” as the Capitol riot unfolded on January 6th.
The text messages, which were sent from Hicks to Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff Julie Radford, suggested that the January 6th riots would not be good for the careers of Trump alumni.
“In one day he ended every future opportunity that doesn’t include speaking engagements at the local proud boys chapter,” Hicks wrote.
“Yup,” Radford replied.
“And all of us that didn’t have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed,” said Hicks, who grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut and worked directly for the President of the United States. “I’m so mad and upset. We all look like domestic terrorists.”
Who is Hope Hicks?
Great question.
Hicks grew up playing lacrosse and modeling in Greenwich, Connecticut. Hicks’s father was a public relations executive. Naturally, Hicks entered public relations after graduating from Southern Methodist University, got a job at the Trump Organization, and then a few years later is advising the President of the United States.
I don’t know Hope Hicks, maybe she’s brilliant, but her ascent to the Oval Office seems kind of, like, frictionless.
There’s commentary to be made here about class and opportunity in America but I’m just going to let that one slide for now. Besides, anyone with the ability to dilute the influence of Stephen Miller is a good thing – let’s take what we can get.
Anyways, Hicks was a top adviser to President Trump, so presumably her text messages are important.
Domestic Terrorism?
The liberal media has been fixated on January 6th for two years now. Of course, the Capitol Riots were an abomination, worthy of media coverage – but the continual fixation is just an extension of the media’s primary fixation on Donald Trump.
Really, the January 6th coverage is meant to validate the narrative the media has been pumping for eight years now – that Donald Trump is evil personified. I don’t like Trump, and I wouldn’t vote for him as county dog catcher, but the media coverage of Trump is getting old.
And just like the media uses January 6th coverage to validate their greater point about Trump, the Hicks text messages are used to validate a more discreet and nuanced narrative: that Trumpism has led to the rise of alt-right domestic terrorism in the United States.
So, that’s why the media is rushing to tell you about two-year-old text messages that some former teen model from Greenwich sent to her co-worker. The text messages are (maybe?) important in terms of historical preservation of a unique moment in American history; the text messages should be preserved for posterity.
But the text messages don’t really matter in moving forward, or even in fully clarifying what the hell happened on January 6th. That’s not the point though is it; the point is to say ‘hey, even Trump’s closest aides thought Trump was out of line, so you know he must have been real bad.’ Yeah, okay, got it. And now the media will treat Hope Hicks, who is a bona fide Trump insider, with kids gloves because she helps the media advance their narrative and prime objective: denouncing Trump.
At risk of becoming repetitive, I’d like to emphasize that the media should move on from covering every single thing that can relate to Trump in any way.
Trump’s enduring relevance is tied directly to the media’s reluctance to let go and move on. Trump will remain relevant until the media decides otherwise.
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Harrison Kass is the Senior Editor at 19FortyFive. An attorney, pilot, guitarist, and minor pro hockey player, Harrison joined the US Air Force as a Pilot Trainee but was medically discharged. Harrison holds a BA from Lake Forest College, a JD from the University of Oregon, and an MA from New York University. Harrison lives in Oregon and listens to Dokken.
