Hope Hicks Expected To Testify In Trump's Hush Money Trial: Reports
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Hicks was Trump's 2016 campaign spokesperson before going on to join the Trump administration.
Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director who was once one of former President Donald Trump’s closest advisers, is expected to testify against him in his upcoming New York criminal trial, several outlets have reported.
Hicks will reportedly speak about the hush money payments made to porn actor Stormy Daniels in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential election, when the Trump campaign was scrambling to mitigate the damage of an “Access Hollywood” tape in which Trump was heard making sexualized and belittling comments about women.
Hicks was Trump’s campaign press secretary at the time. She went on to join his administration, leaving in 2018 only to return in 2020.
In March last year, she met for several hours with Manhattan prosecutors investigating Trump.
Federal search warrants released in 2019 had shown how Hicks was part of conversations between Trump and Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, in the wake of the tape’s release.