Hope Hicksone of the top advisors to former President Donald Trumpbroke down in tears Friday in New York while testifying in the criminal trial for bribes from former president Donald Trump to cover up their extramarital affairs with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. The former Trump adviser took the stand to testify about her recollections in connection with the aforementioned allegations that Trump tried to cover up alleged affairs with porn star Stephanie Clifford. Stormy Daniels and the former model Playboy Karen McDougal weeks before the 2016 presidential elections, in order to avoid losing favor with the evangelical electorate. Just after Trump’s lawyer, Emil Bove, began his cross-examination by asking Hicks what his role was in the Trump Organization, he became emotional and appeared to start crying for no clear reason. Who is Hope Wicks? What is their relationship in the case of pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels and the bunny Playboy?
Devastating testimony. Hope Hicks recounted the concerns that arose within Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, which would provide the basis for the accusation to try to prove possible bribery. Then, shortly before Election Day, a recorded tape came to light in which Trump assured a journalist from Access Hollywood from NBC that women like it when “you grab them by the pussy» and that he had had relationships with Playboy model Karen McDougal and porn star Stormy Daniels.
Repercussions. Hicks, who then spoke with Trump daily, stated that the Trump campaign feared the possible repercussions of the tape. Access Hollywood, previously cited, in the presidential elections, in which it was essential to win the favor of the evangelical electorate, a core group within the conservative voters of the Republican Party in the southern United States. She also stated that Trump did not want the newspaper delivered to him in its home on the day a report was going to be published about his alleged affair with the bunny Playboy Karen McDougal.
Accusation. The prosecution will base its strategy on his statement about the then lawyer and fixer of Trump, Michael Cohen, that he was unlikely to act alone when he paid hush money Stormy Daniels. He will also use his testimony to show that Trump intended to silence women like Stormy Daniels because they could hurt his chances of winning the presidential election.
Censorship of Wall Street Journal. Hicks acknowledged that he tried to “buy a little more time” by having Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, call Rupert Murdoch, the newspaper’s editor. The Wall Street Journal, to stop a report about Trump’s relationships with McDougal and Stormy Daniels. He then issued a statement in which he denied knowledge of any agreement between the National Enquirer and McDougal and that the bunny’s statement Playboy about an affair with Trump was “totally false.”
Hicks was born in 1988 in Greenwich (Connecticut), where she was a model. She graduated from Texas Southern Methodist University. She later started working as public relations in New York. She was in an advertising campaign for a line of Ivanka Trump fashion. Two years later, in August 2014, she joined the Trump Organization. She also modeled for the website. In January 2015, at the age of 26, she began working in the presidential campaign as a press secretary, despite having no experience in politics.
