What Julia Hahn’s Bubbe Really Thinks About Her Trump White House Gig
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ron Kampeas March 30, 2017
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Julia Hahn, the onetime Breitbart firebrand who is now a special assistant to President Donald Trump and reports to Trump’s influential consigliere Stephen Bannon, is elusive.
She did not cooperate with profiles like this one in the New Yorker that were inevitable for an increasingly influential 25-year-old. Information came from classmates at L.A. prep school Harvard-Westlake and the University of Chicago, who described a kind friend they presumed was liberal, in part because she’s a Jewish woman from California.
The Washington Post scored a breakthrough interview with a somewhat closer source: Hahn’s Jewish grandmother, Lynn Honickman, a contributor to Jewish, Israeli and Democratic causes.
Honickman, like most bubbes, is loving — but also a little blunt.
“She really is the type to listen to other arguments, to learn from the people around her,” Honickman told the Post. “I think she took advantage of something she saw and is doing the best she knows how.”
But does she really buy into an ideology so alien to her grandmother’s?
“What she feels in this particular moment, could be different three days from now,” Honickman said.
You can almost see the barely perceptible shrug and the slightly cocked eyebrow.
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