Hope Hicks set to testify before Jan. 6 committee: Report

Longtime Trump confidant and former White House communications director Hope Hicks will appear before the House Jan. 6 committee, according to media reports, a sign that committee members are not letting up in their efforts to interview as many people as possible who are or have been close to former President Donald Trump during his political career. 

Hicks was a regular fixture at the White House during the Trump years, serving in a variety of communications roles including as communications director from 2017 to 2018. 

She returned to the White House in early 2020 as an adviser to the president before leaving in a previously planned departure in mid-January 2021, after the Jan. 6 riot but before Trump's last day in office. 

Hicks was previously employed by the Trump organization and was a staffer on the 2016 Trump campaign as well.