'Damaging for Trump': What Hope Hicks didn't testify about tells us more than what she did

Former Donald Trump aide Hope Hicks spoke under oath at length about how the former president sought to silence women who claimed to have had affairs with him in order to affect the 2016 election, but it's what she didn't say that stood out to one legal expert.

MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos, who has previously provided analysis of Trump's various criminal cases, appeared on the network on Saturday to discuss Trump's case in which he is charged with felonies for allegedly disguising hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels as legal fees to his former lawyer. Trump could potentially face jail time if he is convicted at trial.

Specifically, the host asked what "stood out" to him about Hicks' testimony.

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"I would say what stood out to me is what Hope Hicks didn't testify about," Cevallos responded. "I was really curious to see what Hope Hicks was going to say, because unlike people like Michael Cohen or Stormy Daniels, Hope Hicks has been completely silent other than testifying before, say, a grand jury. We didn't know what she was going to say. So it was possible that we would be hit with some Trump bombshell, because this is somebody that was very close to Trump for a long period of time who may have overheard things."

He added that Hicks' testimony was "damaging for Trump," but noted "there were little tidbits in there for the defense, including painting Michael Cohen, as you said, like a bumbling Mr. Fix-it, which was an ironic name because she said he would break things and then fix them."

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