Hope Hicks, a former long-time adviser to Donald Trump, took the witness stand on Friday in his criminal trial, where prosecutors are expected to question her about her knowledge of hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Referring to her former boss as “Mr Trump”, she told the court she last communicated with him in the summer or autumn of 2022.While no longer in Trump’s inner circle, Ms Hicks spoke about the former president in glowing terms as the prosecutor began questioning her about her background. Prosecutors say Ms Hicks spoke with Trump by phone during a frenzied effort to keep allegations of his marital infidelity out of the press after the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape leaked weeks before the 2016 election.
Former Trump attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, the prosecution’s star witness, has yet to take the stand in the hush money trial. They are setting the stage for pivotal testimony from Mr Cohen, who paid porn actor Stormy Daniels 130,000 US dollars for her silence before he went to prison for the hush money scheme.
Mr Davidson on Thursday described being shocked that his hidden-hand efforts might have contributed to Trump winning the 2016 election.
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