Hope Hicks resigns

Harper's Weekly Review

Hope Hicks, a 29-year-old former model who is among the highest-paid White House staffers, announced her resignation from her role as communications director a day after she stated, in a more-than-eight-hour testimony to a House committee investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, that she sometimes told "white lies" while working for Donald Trump, the current president of the United States, who reportedly made 2,436 false or misleading claims since he took office. "She is strategic, poised, and wise beyond her years," said chief of staff John Kelly of Hicks, who was once featured on the cover of a young-adult novel about wealthy children who time travel.