Another Clown Leaves The Circus (UPDATED)

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Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and one of President Trump’s longest-serving advisers, said Wednesday that she plans to leave the White House in the coming weeks. 

Ms. Hicks, 29, a former model who joined Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign without any experience in politics, became known as one of the few aides who understood his personality and style and could challenge the president to change his views. [snip] 

Her resignation came a day after she testified for eight hours before the House Intelligence Committee, telling the panel that in her job, she had occasionally been required to tell white lies but had never lied about anything connected to the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

Despite her assertion that none of her "white lies" were associated with the Russia investigation, Hicks was involved with Rump in drafting the statement misrepresenting the meeting in June 2016 that grease stain Donald Trump, Jr., had at Trump Tower with Russians.  A conspiracy to obstruct justice isn't considered a "white lie." Someone may want to tell Hicks that (or perhaps they did, which might explain the abrupt timing of her departure).

UPDATE: Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog has more detail and background on what might have precipitated Hicks' departure.

(Photo: Hicks with =Hic=.)

Bombshell Du Jour: Insider Will Confirm Obstruction Effort

While we were still absorbing the news (below) that co- conspiring weasel Rep. Devin "Sherlock" Nunes (R-Trumpland) altered the FBI- bashing, justice- obstructing memo he sent to the White (Supremacist) House, another bomb dropped:

Aboard Air Force One on a flight home from Europe last July, President Trump and his advisers raced to cobble together a news release about a mysterious meeting at Trump Tower the previous summer between Russians and top Trump campaign officials. Rather than acknowledge the meeting’s intended purpose — to obtain political dirt about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government — the statement instead described the meeting as being about an obscure Russian adoption policy. 

The statement, released in response to questions from The New York Times about the meeting, has become a focus of the inquiry by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election... [snip] 

What is already clear is that, as Mr. Trump’s aides and family members tried over 48 hours to manage one of the most consequential crises of the young administration, the situation quickly degenerated into something of a circular firing squad. They protected their own interests, shifted blame and potentially left themselves — and the president — legally vulnerable. 

The latest witness to be called for an interview about the episode was Mark Corallo, who served as a spokesman for Mr. Trump’s legal team before resigning in July. Mr. Corallo received an interview request last week from the special counsel and has agreed to the interview, according to three people with knowledge of the request. 

Mr. Corallo is planning to tell Mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with Mr. Trump and Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, according to the three people. Mr. Corallo planned to tell investigators that Ms. Hicks said during the call that emails written by Donald Trump Jr. before the Trump Tower meeting — in which the younger Mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians — “will never get out.” That left Mr. Corallo with concerns that Ms. Hicks could be contemplating obstructing justice, the people said. (our emphasis)

The frenetic efforts by the regime of un- indicted co- conspirator Donald "Rump" Trump and the lickspittle Republican Party to undermine the Mueller investigation at all costs is the very definition not only of obstruction of justice, but of "consciousness of guilt." That they happen to be singularly inept at it doesn't mean they're not a mortal danger to the American political and legal systems. With a supine "leadership" in Congress more interested in "investigating" (i.e., smearing) the investigators than investigating the compromised, potentially treasonous Rump regime, the danger of a desperate, rogue White (Supremacist) House thinking it has a free hand to engineer a coup at the Justice Department is very real and imminent. It's in that context that the Nunes memo is being rightfully seen as a pretext for removing Mueller supervisor Rod Rosenstein and replacing him with a Rump loyalist.

We have a sense that pretty soon we'll be seeing who's willing to put themselves on the line for our country.