A former Trump adviser, on the assault on the Capitol: "Now we all look like terrorists"

MADRID, 3 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Hope Hicks, who was a White House adviser under former US President Donald Trump, pointed out during the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 that the incident left all those who had worked for the New York magnate in a very bad place. and warned that all of them had come to be considered "domestic terrorists."

In a series of text messages exchanged with Julie Radford, former press officer for Ivanka Trump, the former president's daughter, Hicks asserted that Trump had killed any "opportunity going forward that didn't include talks about the Proud Boys," a ultranationalist and far-right organization, according to information from The Hill news portal.

"Now we all look like terrorists," he said then, as revealed by the documents collected by the House of Representatives Commission that investigates what happened that day when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the United States Congress to stop the ratification of the votes of the elections that gave the victory to the current president, Joe Biden.

Hicks warned that the vast majority of Trump advisers, especially those who were not in a privileged position or had a good job before the incident, "would be out of a job forever." "I am angry and anguished," she pointed out in her messages, to which Radford replied, assuring that she had been "crying for an hour."

The two women also addressed the resignation of former White House communication director Alyssa Farah Griffin, who resigned a month before the assault and, according to Hicks and Radford, "was left a genius."

The Commission on the assault on the Capitol has released numerous witness transcripts over the past week ahead of the plenary session in which the conclusions of its investigation will be established. The members of it finalized their final report last month and advised Trump to be charged with the commission of four crimes, although this decision is not binding.

Although the decision is now in the hands of the Department of Justice, this is the first time that a US parliamentary commission recommends that a former president be brought to justice for the commission of crimes.