| In Trump Trial Hope Hicks
Recounts Access Hollywood Crisis
and Call to Pecker
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
100
CENTRE ST COURT,
May 2 – On Friday in the Trump
trial, former press secretary
Hope Hicks took the stand,
under subpoena.
She had
gone from publicizing Ivanka
Trump's personal brand to
fielding emails seeking
comment on the Access
Hollywood tape to the
catch-and-kill journalism of
the National Enquirer's David
Pecker.
Like
Pecker, she offered praise to
Trump, describing
relationships of his as
"respectful" and praising his
media savvy.
As
Trump's best cross-examiner
(so far) Emil Bove slipping
into the lead counsel's seat,
one wondered how this cross
examination might go.
The
prosecution, though, must have
liked that she described Trump
as running everything, and
everyone reporting to
him.
Earlier in
the trial, this appears to
have been their point in
introducing into evidence a
document showing him managing
his own Winged Foot golf
course renewals.
Also earlier on
Friday, Justice Merchan made a
point of countering the
argument that if Trump does
not testify, his gag order is
to blame.
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