INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/NONTRUTHS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, told House investigators on Tuesday [2-27-18] that her work for President Trump, who has a reputation for exaggerations and outright falsehoods, had occasionally required her to tell white lies.
But after extended consultation with her lawyers, she insisted that she had not lied about matters material to the investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible links to Trump associates, according to three people familiar with her testimony.
The exchange came during more than eight hours of private testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. Ms. Hicks declined to answer similar questions about other figures from the Trump campaign or the White House.
She also pointedly and repeatedly declined to answer questions about the presidential transition or her time in the White House, lawmakers who sat in on the testimony said, telling investigators that she had been asked by the White House to discuss only her time on the campaign. They added that she did not formally invoke executive privilege.
A lawyer for Ms. Hicks declined to comment.”
-Nicholas Fandos, “Hope Hicks Acknowledges She Sometimes Tells White Lies for Trump,” The New York Times online, Feb. 27, 2018