Hope Hicksa former advisor close to former president Donald Trump He testified this Friday during his trial in New York about the “crisis” in which the mogul’s campaign was involved in 2016 after a tape came to light in which he boasted of groping women.
The former press secretary Hope Hicks He was the first person in the inner circle of the now Republican candidate for the November presidential elections in go up to the stand in his historic trial, in which he is accused of falsifying records to cover up payments to former porn actress Stormy Daniels to avoid another scandal before the 2016 elections.
“I was a little dazed,” Hicks said of the recording revealed by Access Hollywood in which Trump is heard bragging about grabbing women’s genitals. “There was a consensus among all of us that the tape was harmful, this was a crisis“he added.
Hicks was summoned to appear by prosecutors, who have argued that the panic generated by the recording sparked an effort by the Trump campaign to silence Daniels for his intention to reveal an alleged sexual encounter with Trump, who was already married. Hicks admitted to being nervous when she began testifying, and later burst into tears under vigorous questioning from Trump’s lawyer, Emil Bove, prompting the judge to order a recess.
Key piece
The former advisor was a key piece in the final stages of Trump’s successful 2016 presidential campaign, which he joined at the age of 26. “I briefed Mr. Trump” during the campaign, Hicks told the court, describing him as “very involved”.
According to David Pecker, former editor of the National Enquirer tabloid and the first witness in the trial, Hicks was in a meeting in 2015 at Trump Tower in New York in the it was agreed to help the incipient trump campaign of the following year. Under the intense gaze of the Republican, who she avoided crossing, she said, however, that she did not remember the meeting. Apparently, the woman continues to maintain cordial relations with the Trump family.
“He was worried about how his wife would see him.” Melania, Hicks said. Trump declined to answer reporters’ questions about his former adviser during a break in the proceedings.
