'She knew more than she admitted': Trump insider says potential witness has goods on him
What Hope Hicks knows is certainly more than she's let on.
Former "Apprentice" contestant and White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman appeared on CNN to point out that former President Donald Trump's trusted confidante Hope Hicks is very aware of the intricacies involving the allegations being raised in the historic criminal hush money trial of a scheme to manipulate the 2016 election by buying the silence of a woman alleging she had an affair with Trump.
"Well, there's no question that she knew every single aspect of it," Newman said. "In fact, it was her job to know and it was also her job to manage it and then manage the messaging around it."
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It's this reason that Newman was puzzled by Hicks' initial coy response when pressed about how much she knew about the six-figure sums paid to porn star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to when Americans were going to cast their vote for president.
"So I was really surprised when [Hicks] initially asserted that she knew nothing about it," Newman noted. "But now all of the information that's coming out and the evidence shows that she knew more than she admitted."
In 2019, Hicks' through her attorney stated that any suggestion she was privy to conversations about “hush money” or knew payments were being discussed “are simply wrong.”
“Ms. Hicks stands by her truthful testimony that she first became aware of this issue in early November 2016, as the result of press inquiries,” Robert Trout said at the time.
It's anticipated that Hicks, who held the position of White House Communications Director, is going to be called by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecutorial team in the weeks to come in the trial accusing Trump of falsifying financial records.
The former president's longtime fixer and attorney who has since turned witness for the prosecution, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty in 2018 to federal charges for committing campaign finance violations for orchestrating the funds — $130,000 through a shell company to Daniels — to keep her from going public.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges lodged against him and denied the affairs.