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Perfect-Trump’s Rosa Woods DID keep a diary. Just like Bob Haldeman-Nixon’s chief of staff did. So while she’s Trump’s Rosa Woods she’s also in some ways his Bob Haldeman.
It’s thanks to Haldeman’s diary that no one dismisses the idea that Nixon sabotaged LBJ’s peace talks with North Vietnam to get elected.
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— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) March 2, 2018
In any case, book publishers are already reaching out to her. She’s been offered $10 million dollars. Yup-$10 million.
It’s not hard to understand why.
No sooner had Hopes Hicks’ resignation been announced, a day after her ‘white lies’ testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, one of New York City‘s most powerful publishing house editors was in contact.
He had an offer he hoped Hicks wouldn’t refuse: $10 million to write what was described exclusively to Daily Mail as a ‘candid, truthful, sensitive tell-all about her life in Trump Land—the good, the bad and the ugly.’
Soon after, the 29-year-old White House communications director – one of President Trump‘s closest and longest serving advisors said to know him better than any other top White House aides – was contacted by a female Hollywood producer-screenwriter with platinum credentials.
A source familiar with the communication, who asked for anonymity, was told what the Hollywood big-shot had said:
‘What would it take to do your story as a mini-series or on the big screen? I can get the financing, like tomorrow, and make you rich and even more famous. You have an incredible story. Let’s talk!’
And since then Hick has been overwhelmed with messages offering millions of dollars in advances for book deals by major publishers, and offers from Hollywood to make biopics about her glamorous political and scandalous life.
As one publishing executive told DailyMail.com, ‘Next to Ivanka and Melania, Hope is the woman closest to the president, and knows all the secrets, all the foibles, all the quirks.
‘She’s also the most glamorous White House female since Jackie Kennedy. Her story will be a blockbuster. I have the authority to offer her an advance of $10 million, and we’re open to negotiate.’
High-powered New York literary agent Eric Myers told DailyMail.com that Hicks could easily get a $10 million advance, ‘If she really did promise to throw the office doors wide open and tell all.
‘However, that may not be likely as she is a longtime close friend and defender of Trump, and may not be inclined to do that. Plus, there would undoubtedly be matters of legality and national security to be weighed.”
The big issue-assuming she were inclined to do it; and based on the vibe she gave off at the WH it’s not all all clear that she is inclined to do it-is the nondisclosure agreement she-like everyone who works for Trump-had to sign.
According to a White House insider, Hicks has been secretly keeping what was described as a ‘detailed diary of her White House work, and her interactions with the president.’
‘The thing is,’ the source tells Daily Mail, ‘Hope’s one of Donald Trump’s most loyal colleagues and friends. She’s not one to destroy that relationship.
‘And she is certainly under some sort of nondisclosure agreement. Moreover, the various investigations by the special counsel and congress could target her. So she has to be very careful about jumping into any deals.’
And that’s the key. If she isn’t willing to destroy the relationship-or at least to risk it-it won’t be a book worth reading. She has to do a Steven Bannon-who’s collaboration with Michael Wolff is the model for many who are desperate now to sign her on. But as much as she may value her relationship to Herr Trump and be under the gun of a nondisclosure agreement, is a $10 million dollar advance worth risking the relationship and breaking the nondisclosure agreement?
It would be for many of us but don’t know about Hope Hicks-after all, imagine what you have to do to have a relationship like she does with so-called President Trump.
On the other hand this seems fortuitous:
Her red carpet looks brought her to the attention of such magazines as Marieclaire and, in the wake of the scandals and resignation, Cosmopolitan.com.
“Not surprisingly, Hicks, once told a local hometown publication that her sole desire in life was to become an actress – a job that she might now get if she takes one of the deals offered by Hollywood — the possibility of playing herself in a big money-deal biopic about her life and times in the Trump White House.”
If her sole desire in life is still to become an actress then I don’t see how you turn this down, along with a $10 million dollar signing bonus.
Certainly a book by her would be the ‘political blockbuster of the decade’, as one agent put it. As Trump’s Rose Woods she knows where all the bodies are buried or at least her email chains will reveal where they are buried.
In any case, plenty other Trumpsters have managed to publish books nondisclosure agreement notwithstanding.
Still, others who have worked with Trump have already published books. The book by Corey Lewandowski, who had served as Trump’s chief political advisor and campaign manager – ‘Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency,’ – was published in December and became a bestseller.”
Another Trump longtime advisor, Roger Stone, has published ‘The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution,’ in January.
And former White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced in December that he was penning a Trump White House tell-all, telling Fox News star Sean Hannity, ‘I’ve decided that this is incumbent on me to set the record straight.’
“And more such books are expected.”
I sure do hope Hope Hicks writes the book-and the miniseries.
FN: These hopes-for Hope Hicks-have not been realized. She has indeed done what she needed to do to protect her relationship with her illegitimate boss-if she opened up a la Steve Bannon she’d risk pissing him off for upstaging him and even worse incriminating him.
It’s clear she got where she is-she was one of the most powerful people in DC while at the Russia House-and now she’s the executive vice president and chief communications officer at Fox-by being a team player.