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.

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.

  • @SoylentBlake
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    415 days ago

    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.