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Commentary: Who is Hope Hicks, and what'd she do?

The first major newspaper article about Donald Trump, in 1973, described him as surrounded by "slinky fashion models." If you count former fashion models, he still is. There's his wife, Melania, who started modeling at 5 and eventually landed on the cover of Vogue. There's his daughter Ivanka, who walked various runways. Kristin Anderson, Temple Taggart McDowell, Ninni Laaksonen and Karena Virginia, some of the 20 women who have accused Trump of sexual harassment and assault, were once models. Even United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and advisor Kellyanne Conway have beauty-pageant experience.

But it's Hope Hicks, the White House director

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