4 May 2024 10:14 am
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1o7kBPConservativeWave » 04 May 2024, 10:05 am » wrote: ↑ In an epic miscalculation that backfired spectacularly, prosecutors in the Manhattan hush money trial of Donald Trump called Hope Hicks to the witness stand... Hicks, who served as press secretary during the 2016 presidential campaign, explained that:
1) Trump’s motive for suppressing salacious stories was to protect his wife, Melania. "Absolutely…I don’t think he wanted anyone in his family to be hurt or embarrassed about anything on the campaign. He wanted them to be proud of him." ! and...
2) Like the prosecution witnesses before her, Hicks disparaged Bragg’s "star witness", Michael Cohen... Trump’s one-time personal lawyer. "He used to like to call himself Mr. Fix-It, but it was only because he HAD to "fix it", because HE first broke it." !
Ouch!
SO... DA Alvin Bragg is trying to claim Trump paid porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence, with the intent to benefit his campaign and, thereby influence the election by "unlawful means." ?
1st... THAT is a VERY SPECIFIC and DIFFICULT legal needle to thread (first of all)... AND,
2nd... IT Sounds to me like Braggs OWN witness, ONLY provides Trump with ANOTHER motive (which Ms. Hicks has sworn to)... that ACTUALLY CORROBERATES the findings of a federal investigators, and investigation, that "no crimes were committed, or campaign finance laws broken"... because there was another purpose for the non-disclosure agreement that Daniels signed.
Well DONE Mr Bragg... WELL DONE !!
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ny-vs-t ... inst-trump
Hicks explained that the impact of the (Access Hollywood) tape’s release was devastating in and outside the campaign. A telling detail she shared Friday: The public impact was so dominant that the initial 36 hours of coverage pushed a category 4 hurricane that was about to make landfall on the East Coast out of the news. Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo lingered for a bit over his questioning on the anecdote, and with good reason. Hicks’ implication was that this was a category 5 hurricane — or higher. That explains why Trump and his campaign could not afford another damaging sex scandal in the immediate aftermath of the tape
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.