Among those who will come forward to speak truthfully as witnesses for the prosecution in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, his former campaign press secretary and White House senior advisor Hope Hicks is perhaps most intriguing and also seasoned.
Former litigator and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin laid out a litany of insights into one of former President Donald Trump's most trusted confidantes and battle-tested loyalists.
For Rubin, she has no doubts Hicks will be truthful and savvy under questioning.
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"Some have asked me whether Hope Hicks will testify truthfully if called as a witness in the Manhattan DA's criminal trial," Rubin wrote on Twitter/X. "Hicks is no stranger to talking to government investigators--and her history suggests she'll be forthcoming."
And then in a flurried thread, she made her case, replete with choice bits plucked from various official documents.
"Consider this snippet from a 12/17 FBI interview," Rubin writes, of the moment the former president learned former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed Special Counsel.
Trump was described as "angry, surprised, and frustrated" and to such a heated level that the "the only other time" she saw him this way was back on Oct. 7, 2016, "when the Access Hollywood tape came out during the campaign."
In another document snippet, Rubin pointed to Hicks' appearance before the House Judiciary Committee in 2019.
Asked if she knew about the payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal — both of whom Trump is alleged to have carried on affairs with — Hicks responded she was never present when Trump and his former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen talked Daniels.
As far as McDougal, Rubin noted that Hicks said she was "directed to make a public statement denying the relationship existed between Mr. Trump and a woman named Karen McDougal."
She also claimed to not have any "direct knowledge" of the Cohen to Daniels payments.
Read the full thread here.
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