'This was a damaging development,' Hicks testified of the 'Access Hollywood' tape.
Hope Hicks attends former President Trump's cabinet meeting in the East Room on May 19, 2020. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Hope Hicks, a former top aide in the Trump White House, took the stand Friday in former President Trump's hush money trial, describing the panic in his 2016 presidential campaign after revelations of an "Prosecutors seek to use Hicks' testimony to show that after the tape, Trump tried to quash stories about inappropriate behavior with women, leading to the hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
"I had a good sense to believe this was going to be a massive story and that it was going to dominate the news cycle for the next several days," Hicks testified,Hicks said that she received an email from the Washington Post about a month before the 2016 election asking for comment on the video and a transcript of Trump's remarks.
"I was concerned about the contents of the email. I was concerned about the lack of time to respond. I was concerned that we had a transcript not a tape. There was a lot at play," Hicks said, per When asked whether she was concerned about whether the video would hurt Trump's standing with women voters, she said she was not immediately concerned, but "certainly, eventually, that was something that was raised," perShare on linkedin
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