President Donald Trump turned to Hope Hicks in June 2017 when he wanted a “number” to back up his false claims that his approval ratings were “setting records” for a first-year president...
[Trump’s] approval rating on that day’s Gallup tracker was just 36 percent…
Hicks … made Trump happy by offering up “seventy percent,” wrote the Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich, who witnessed the exchange...
[The poll turned out to be] from Tennessee [only], and … it was of Republicans.