Hope Hicks served as the counselor for the President, Donald Trump, in January of 2017 to March 2018 and 2020 to 2021,(Forbes, Voytko-Best) and who was considered a loyalist to Trump.(Politico, McGraw, Cook, Lippman) (Forbes, Wilson) She was mentioned in the testimony William Stepien gave during the January 6th committee a few times.(January 6th Committee, Stepien’s Testimony, p. 49, 71-72, 116-118, 120, 122)