Hope Hicks, the former close aide to Donald Trump, is expected to testify in the former president’s upcoming New York criminal trial related to hush money payments to former porn actress Stormy Daniels.
NBC News, citing an unnamed source, reported earlier today that Hicks was expected to be a witness for the prosecution. ABC News also reported that Hicks was expected to take the stand.
Her attorney, Robert Trout, declined to comment. A spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Hicks was a spokesperson for the Trump Organization in 2015 when, at the start of Trump’s bid for the presidency, she served as his campaign press secretary.
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