Hope Hicks, who previously served as a counselor to former President Donald Trump, experienced an emotional outburst while giving testimony in District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money case in Manhattan.
Hicks had a lengthy professional relationship with Trump, having started working for him shortly after college.
She had previously been called to testify before the House January 6 Committee and was now involved in the case involving alleged payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
During her testimony, Hicks became overwhelmed and broke down in court, leading Judge Juan Merchan to call for a brief recess.
Following her testimony for the prosecution, she faced cross-examination from defense attorney Emil Bove, which resulted in her quickly breaking down, as reported by MSNBC.
“I want to talk to you about your time at the Trump Organization,” the attorney said to Hicks before she started to get emotional.
“Sorry about that,” she said after she came back to the witness stand.
“No, it’s okay,” the attorney for the former president said.
“Absolutely…I don’t think he wanted anyone in his family to be hurt or embarrassed about anything on the campaign. He wanted them to be proud of him,” Hicks testified.
Her testimony was an “epic miscalculation that backfired spectacularly” on the prosecution, Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said in a piece for Fox News.
“The account by Hicks demolishes District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s primary claim against Trump that he paid porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence with the intent to benefit his campaign and, thereby, influence the election by ‘unlawful means.’ To the contrary, it nicely corroborates the findings of a federal investigation that no crimes were committed, or campaign finance laws broken because there was another purpose for the non-disclosure agreement that Daniels signed,” he said.
“Like the prosecution witnesses before her, Hicks disparaged Bragg’s planned star witness, Michael Cohen, Trump’s one-time personal lawyer. ‘He used to like to call himself Mr. Fix-It, but it was only because he first broke it.’ Ouch! But that denigrating remark is tame compared to the other derisive comments that have been leveled thus far at the insufferable Cohen, who is a convicted liar who went to prison,” he said.
“Hicks confirmed that Trump was aware that Cohen paid off Daniels to end what can fairly be described as aggressive blackmail demands. When the election drew near, Daniels ratcheted up her greedy scheme to profit from Trump by threatening to go public about a supposed affair, which he denied. Not incidentally, she renounced the purported tryst. Then, in a head-spinning maneuver, she recanted her repudiation,” the analyst said.
It was something that her former attorney, Michael Avenatti, said on X, formerly Twitter, from his prison cell.
“Keith Davidson is lying,” he said on Thursday. “After I confronted her w/ her own text msgs, Daniels admitted to me in early 2019 that she & Davidson had extorted Trump in Oct. 2016 – it was a shakedown.”
“This was one of the many reasons I fired her as a client in Feb. 2019,” he said.
Davidson served as the lawyer for both Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, arranging confidentiality agreements and payments for them.
Jarrett pondered the absence of any criminal activity in the case, noting that confidentiality agreements are not illegal.
“The payments made were not illegal. Non-disclosure contracts in exchange for silence are not unlawful. Killing negative stories violates no statutes. More to the point, it is not a crime for Trump to know about a non-crime. That would be a senseless syllogism,” the legal analyst said.
“So, where exactly is the crime? To quote a memorable line from ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ ‘I don’t know…it’s a mystery!’” he said.
“There is, however, no mystery behind Alvin Bragg’s politically driven prosecution of Trump. Out of thin air, the DA conjured up expired misdemeanors, dumped them into a Cuisinart, tossed in a garbage state statute that doesn’t apply to a federal election, hit the “puree” button, and then poured out an absurd concoction of faux felonies,” he said.
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The last paragraph of this article is PURE gold!!!
I concur, it is even a diamond. I think, based on the abuses we are seeing, Congress must enact a law that will fire and DIS-BAR DAs and Judges who are found to be biased, especially when their cases are overturned by the Supreme Court, because they just wasted our tax dollars to satisfy their own agenda. Maybe the first time they failed to adhere to the law & their case was overturned, they must be admonished & fined, but the the second time, must be disbarment and fired. This will keep them honest and not succumb to outside pressure.
This is an extreme attempt to stop Trump from becoming POTUS again by the Democratic Party and Joe Biden collusion to use anything legal or not to prevent Trump’s reelection. For the naysayers, tell me 3 things that in the 3.5 years that Democrat Biden has been in office, that has benefited the Average Joe andJoan on the streets. Inflation is up, unemployment appears to be creeping up, prices are rising, gas prices are out of control, those who are retired and on fixed income see their planned ability to retire disappearing and are forced to go back to work. We see extreme left polices and programs that one has to question, we see a rise in religous attacks, we see professional antangonistic groups that take over and illegally demonstrate on College Campasses, we see borders allowing illegals free access to the USA unguarded and programs to assist and promote illegal immigration. We see the results of illegal immigration with increases in theft, rape, murders, and an ungreatful mob. We see the Deep State conclaves of Democrats refusing to allow those same people into their areas and forcing them on others, we see higher taxes, Congress (the opposite of Progress) sending Billions of dollars of aid, military hardware, men and othe materials half way around the world, and for what reason, to start WWIII with the Russians? We see a feable old man who has no clue of what he is doing, as those around him are all calling the shots, who now has to use a cover shield between reporters and himself to cover his almost inability to walk from the White House to Marine1. We see members of Congress ILLEGALLY using insider trading to amass great wealth, ie: Nancy Pelosi and her husband, we see radicals in Congress that support Hamas and other terrorist orgnaizations over the USA. Our relations with nearly 100 year old allies is all but in a dumpster as we withdraw our support to defend itself from unwarrented attacks by terrorists who killed over 2000 of its citizens, and now the bleeding hearts say their reaction is too much. As a citizen of this nation how would you expect this nation to react if it were attacked and a town of 2000 were wiped off the map, AND you lived there? You fight back and you eliminate those who attacked and planned the attack. In the last 3.5 years Fentianol production and importation from China, through Mexico, has increased many fold. In China if you are a dealer you are executed. Here Democrats are playing paddy-cake with dealers and allowing them to continue with their business, and Americans get hooked, suffier, and die every day. When does this administration start taking this seriously? America is getting an eye full of the anti-American Democatic Party loonitics destroying our nation and I hope anyone other than the Democrats and their polices changes the direction of this nation before we fall off the cliff and fracture into so many pieces that it cannot be fixed again.
Hope Hicks did great on the stand. At least her testimony was about President Trump and about his working habits. The prosecutor, losers all, put stormy daniels on to explain if Trump wears a rubber or not.
So, who was the better witness? The prosecution is trying to make this case as sleazy as they posibly can. These prosecuters need their license terminated and they need jail time so they can ponder their screw-ups…..