Hope Hicks’ testimony was a nightmare for Trump

It’s a cliché to say that electricity surged through a courtroom — but it did when Hope Hicks took the stand Friday morning for her testimony in the election interference trial of former President Donald Trump.

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Another devastating blow came at the very end of Hicks’ direct testimony when she revealed a stunning trifecta: that, while president, Trump had admitted to her that he knew his then-fixer Michael Cohen had paid Daniels, that Trump attempted to blame Cohen and that Hicks did not believe him. She also stated that Trump felt it was better to be dealing with it after the election than beforehand. She appeared so distraught — presumably about throwing her former boss under the bus — that she then began crying.

twistypencil,

So why was it so damaging? It never really said

Valmond,

If it’s for reassuring his wife its not that bad, but if it’s for the election it’s bad bad.

Or so I have understood it.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

My understanding is that his defense has basically been “it wasn’t hush money for the election, it was hush money to avoid traumatizing my wife!” Basically admitting that he paid Daniels, but only because he didn’t want her to bother his current wife. He has insisted that the payment had nothing to do with the election. But her testimony blew that excuse out of the water, and puts him in a direct path for all kinds of election fraud charges. Because if he’s fraudulently spending money for private matters, that’s one thing. But if he’s spending money in regards to an election then all sorts of red tape lands in his lap.

KevonLooney,

This opinion piece is one-sided (imagine that!). She did support the defense’s argument as well. Although the defense is relying on the argument that Donald Trump covered up the paid sex because he didn’t want to upset Melania (not the election).

Of course this argument is laughable. Not only do they have witnesses and documentation (tapes!) where Trump wants it done before the election, this is a man who cheats on his newly married pregnant wife. He barely cares about her reaction at all.

FunderPants,

Also, sometimes things are two things, you can do something to interfere with an election and also for other, secondary reasons.

Son_of_dad,

Meanwhile Melanie is back in New York getting railed by the yoga instructor

SoylentBlake,

Rich people don’t care about fidelity, they care about it being noticed. It’s not a betrayal, because they are all doing it, its the scandal they want to avoid. Wealth provides power. Power takes, or buys, what it wants. It is as it’s always been, of every culture, of all time.

corsicanguppy,

Well I hope so. She’s made a huge sacrifice for her family’s sake back home and she deserves some happiness.

Oisteink,

Yoga don’t bring happiness, only despair

Default_Defect,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

I hope Fabien is doing well too, so many wives, so little time.

snownyte,
snownyte avatar

She's crying because she realized that she was just nothing to him but yet another pawn. It's all she ever was to him and all she'll ever be.

Buffalox,

that she then began crying.

Sob I never imagined when I started working for a sociopathic narcissist that he would do bad things and then only think of himself sob sob.

Sanctus,
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Let them feel the shame. Its the first time they’ve felt it since their golden idol gave them a free pass to be the gapping assholes they always wanted

barsquid,

They don’t feel shame. Nobody spending any amount of time working for Donald could possibly feel shame.

If they’ve been living under a rock for the last few decades five minutes of dealing with him will cure their ignorance and they will quit. Everyone who works with him that isn’t (somehow!) unaware of his fraud and corruption is a shameless sociopath. There is so much fraud and corruption.

AngryCommieKender,

Crocodile tears

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