Former White House communications director Hope Hicks is pictured on June 19, 2019, as she leaves a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee for a lunch break at the Capitol in Washington.
Hope Hicks testified Thursday there was a clear consensus the tape of Trump's comments on the Access Hollywood TV show would create a crisis when it was released to the public in 2016.Thomson ReutersFormer White House communications director Hope Hicks is pictured on June 19, 2019, as she leaves a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee for in Washington. Hicks is the first person who worked directly for Donald Trump to testify in his hush-money trial.
She said she thought Trump was joking when he asked her to be the campaign's press secretary. "I wasn't sure if I should take it seriously," she said.Why Trump prosecution is focusing on campaign finance violation, election interferenceFormer federal prosecutor Joseph Moreno explains why hush money payments weren't illegal, but the way they were concealed may have been.
The 12 jurors and six alternates have yet to hear from the main players in the case, including Daniels and Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen, who arranged the payment.
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