Report Claimed Fiona Hill Kept A Box Under Her Desk To “Put My Stuff In In Case I Had To Leave” While Working In Trump White House

Can you blame her?


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Fiona Hill, a leading expert on Russia and its modern leadership, and former National Security Council official said she never expected to work in the Trump administration for very long. The revolving door with the former guy’s administration was exceedingly busy. During Hill’s bombshell testimony for Donald Trump’s impeachment, she revealed that the now-former president’s administration perverted the normal US diplomatic process to pursue a shadow foreign policy in service of what she described as a “domestic political errand.”

Yahoo News reports that Hill said on Tuesday that she never expected to work for the Trump administration for long and always kept a box under her White House desk so she could pack her belongings in case she had to leave.

“By the time I got in … there were so many people that had already gone out the revolving door,” Hill said during an event with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, according to the outlet. “I kept a box under my desk just to kind of put my stuff in in case I had to leave.”

“Unlike many other figures who worked in the White House under Trump – among the most controversial US presidents – Hill was not tainted by her association with the administration,” the outlet reports. “During Tuesday’s event, Hill was asked to explain how she maintained her integrity and to reflect on her time in the White House.”

“Russia’s interference in the 2016 election was a matter of serious concern, she said, and a large part of why she was inspired to accept a position in the White House in the first place,” the report continues. “I wasn’t going in there for a career purpose – it was more of a sense of duty and the importance of the issue,” Hill said.

‘But Hill said she found it difficult to have an impact because of the influence of partisanship and personal agendas over policymaking, including in relation to national security; she described it as “deeply disturbing,”‘ the report adds.

Most people that were tied to Trump’s orbit left with their reputation in tatters. That wasn’t the case with Hill, though.

You can read the full report here.

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