Fiona Hill Called the ‘C-Word’ by Trump Supporter, White House

• Fiona Hill said she faced intense misogynistic attacks while working on Trump’s National Security Council.
• A Trump supporter from Florida called Hill the c-word in a series of calls to both her office and home.
• Hill says another woman in the White House also called her the c-word amid Hill’s final week on the job.

Fiona Hill said that she often faced intensely misogynistic criticism as she sought to do her job as the top Russia advisor in the Trump White House, recounting being called the “c-word” at least twice during her time in the administration.

Hill, who served as the Senior Director for Europe and Russia on the National Security Council before departing in July 2019, recounted the exchanges in her new memoir “There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century.” Hill later served as a key witness during the House impeachment inquiry into Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.

Hill said that she ended up in the crosshairs of Trump supporters in her first weeks on the job due to her position working on Russia issues amid scrutiny over Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. While Hill usually tried to engage with critics, the deluge became too much during the Trump years.

“My work on Russia had long made me a target for public and personal criticism,” she wrote. “Since my debut in an American TV interview back at the Kennedy School in the 1990s, I had kept a file of letters and emails from people who took issue with something I said.”

While she was working at the White House, “the personal attention reached new levels,” Hill said.

“It was hard to ignore everything,” Hill continued. “In keeping with the typical, crudely gendered vitriol that women in public life endure, I received frequent phone messages at work from a woman calling me by name and referring to me with an unprintable term— the notorious c-word.”