UPDATE: A full jury of 12 and six alternates in has been selected in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial.
01.04.2024 - 23:01 / deadline.com
Hope Hicks, the former close aide to Donald Trump, is expected to testify in the former president’s upcoming New York criminal trial related to hush money payments to former porn actress Stormy Daniels.
NBC News, citing an unnamed source, reported earlier today that Hicks was expected to be a witness for the prosecution. ABC News also reported that Hicks was expected to take the stand.
Her attorney, Robert Trout, declined to comment. A spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Hicks was a spokesperson for the Trump Organization in 2015 when, at the start of Trump’s bid for the presidency, she served as his campaign press secretary. She later served as communications director in the White House, then left to join Fox Corp. as chief communications officer, before returning to the administration as counselor to the president.
Last year, Hicks met with prosecutors in advance of charges being filed against Trump. He has plead not guilty to charges related to falsifying business records, in connection to the payments that were made to Daniels in advance of the 2016 election. Another key witness in the case is expected to be Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney and so-called “fixer.” Hicks’ attorney has previously denied that she was involved in the conversations about the payments.
Trump’s trial is scheduled to start on April 15.
Prosecutors in the case also have asked the judge in the case, Juan Merchan, to clarify the scope of his gag order on Trump. Last week, Merchan issued a gag order that restricts what Trump can say about prosecutors other than Bragg, as well as about courtroom staff and their family members. Trump has continued to attack
UPDATE: A full jury of 12 and six alternates in has been selected in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial.
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