Tears on the stand and Trump's hands in everything: Here's what you missed on Day 11 of Trump's hush money trial
In bombshell testimony Friday, Hope Hicks relayed cascading concerns inside Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign as a lewd tape and allegations that he had had affairs with a Playboy model and a porn star emerged in the waning days of the election.
In bombshell testimony Friday, Hope Hicks relayed cascading concerns inside Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign as a lewd tape and allegations that he had had affairs with a Playboy model and a porn star emerged in the waning days of the election.
A close aide to Trump who spoke daily with him, Hicks said Trump’s campaign feared the potential ramifications of the Access Hollywood tape on the pending election. She also testified that Trump did not want the newspaper delivered to his home on the day that a story about his alleged affair with Playboy playmate Karen McDougal was set to run.
The ninth witness in the trial, Hicks took the stand tentatively. “I’m really nervous,” she told the room, her blonde hair falling in soft layers around her shoulders.
Later, she began to cry as an attorney for the defense, Emil Bove, began to ask about her early years working for Trump on real estate at the Trump Organization.
A rapt jury hung on Hicks’s every word as she discussed the all-out effort to control a report so explosive that coverage of it pushed a category 4 hurricane out of the news. She said Trump’s small, close-knit campaign feared the potential ramifications of the Access Hollywood tape on his prospects in the election.
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