...w/o having to call Trump a liar, Hicks admitted the story Trump told her was a dubious one.
Perhaps even worse, during that same convo, Trump asked her how she thought the Times story was playing and wondered aloud whether it would have been better for the story to have come out during the campaign or when it had, concluding the real-life timing had been better.
That’s where the prosecutors’ direct examination of Hicks ended and within a minute or two, her emotions bubbled over.