Hope Hicks Testifies as a Prosecution Witness in Trump's New York Election Interference Trial
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump's longtime aide and confidant, Hope Hicks, testified as a witness for the prosecution in Trump's New York State trial for falsifying business records to gain unfair advantage in the 2016 presidential election. There's been plenty of discussion about how damaging HIck's testimony was to the former president. Glenn explains why he thinks prosecutors called Hicks as the last witness on a Friday before the jury went out for the weekend, and why, by the end of the trial, it will become even more clear why her testimony was sharply incriminating of Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. Former White House official Hope Hicks has testified in Donald Trump's New York |
| 0:20.0 | business fraud trial. But how damaging was her testimony? Here's Gwen with an update on |
| 0:25.2 | Trump's trial. |
| 0:27.2 | So friends, Donald Trump's longtime aide and confidant, Ho Pix, testified as a prosecution witness against Donald Trump in his |
| 0:37.0 | New York trial, his trial for trying to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and she testified as not just any old witness but |
| 0:49.0 | as the prosecution's last witness before the trial broke for the weekend. |
| 0:55.0 | And there's been a good bit of discussion and debate about just how damaging Ho-Pick's testimony |
| 1:02.0 | was. |
| 1:03.2 | Well, let's start with the new reporting. |
| 1:05.7 | And then let's talk about why the prosecutors in the case |
| 1:10.5 | clearly believe that Hopek Hicks testimony is damaging, maybe even devastating, |
| 1:17.0 | even if it's not entirely obvious to outside observers. |
| 1:22.0 | But let's start with the new reporting, this from the New York Times, headline, |
| 1:28.6 | Trump and his one-time confidant meet again, this time in a courtroom. |
| 1:35.2 | And that article begins, her voice low, her posture tense. |
| 1:40.4 | The woman who spent years steering Donald Trump through strife and scandal stepped to the witness stand on Friday, carrying a different burden. |
| 1:51.0 | She was there under the fluorescent lights of a dreary Manhattan courtroom seated 15 feet from the former president she once fiercely defended to testify at his criminal trial. I'm really nervous, Hope Hicks, |
| 2:07.6 | the one-time Trump's spokesman messaging Maestro and all- around advisor acknowledged to the prosecutor |
| 2:15.2 | questioning her declaring what was already obvious to the riveted courtroom. |
| 2:21.9 | Miss Hicks who fell out of favor with Mr. Trump once it emerged that she had privately voiced anger at the January 6th, |
| 2:30.0 | 2021 attack on the Capitol by his supporters said in her testimony that they |
| 2:36.7 | had not spoken in nearly two years. Mr. Trump who faces up to four years in prison, is on trial for 34 felony charges of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal involving a porn star. |
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