The former Trump aide broke down as she was about to be cross-examined by the defense team
Former Trump aide Hope Hicks broke down in tears on the stand Friday just as the ex-president’s defense team was beginning to cross examine her — and just after she testified that it would be “out of character” for Michael Cohen to have paid $130,000 in hush money to a adult film star without expecting anyone to pay him back.
Hicks, who helped lead Trump’s communications strategy during the 2016 campaign and his time in office, earlier Friday said that she was “nervous” to be testifying in Manhattan hush money case. While she praised Trump as a “very hard worker,” she also offered details useful to the prosecution, saying she had heard Trump and Cohen discuss the hush payment to Stormy Daniels after the Wall Street Journal publicly revealed its existence in 2018.
