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There is nothing for Hope Hicks to “decide.” She got a subpoena from Congress. Were she not white, wealthy, and connected, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. She would appear, or she would face the threat of prison like the rest of us. As she should. nyti.ms/2I329XZ
Hope Hicks had to have known who she was working for and what the work they were doing was affecting the world. These are people we should treat with every bit of disdain. By testifying, Hicks may actually have her first opportunity to perform something akin to a public service.
That the Paper of Record would profile Hicks as if she has a legitimate choice as to whether or not she should comply with a Congressional subpoena is a testament to the degree to which norms have shifted to accommodate Trumpian criminality. I mean, what are we even asking here?
I’ll add this framing of it as an “existential question” is infuriating. People who face those in America are transgender folks who see their very selves being legislated out of existence, or abortion patients in states who would imprison or kill them for it, because “pro-life.”
Black folks here have faced existential questions, quite literally, for 400 years. Indigenous people for even longer. I don’t want to belabor this, but we must think more critically—especially when evaluating President Trump and his collaborators. We are writing in permanent ink.
