Hope Hicks, who worked on the former president’s campaign Donald Trump from 2016 and was part of his White House team until 2018, They broke down in tears last Friday when the former president’s legal team began questioning them in a New York criminal trial.
Seeing the emotional state of Hicks, the judge in charge of the case decided to rest in this process in which Trump is facing 34 charges, including falsifying business documents to help cover up an extramarital affair with a porn actress.
Hicks spoke with Trump and then-right-hand man Michael Cohen on the day in 2016 when They found out that the porn actress wanted money in exchange for not telling about his adventure.
Prosecutors were the first to question Hicks and, although the former Trump staffer said she was nervous, she did not reveal the answers.
In the first part of Hicks’ testimony to the prosecution, Donald Trump carefully watched his statements on the stand.
However, he went on to see what the former employee was saying on the video screen in front of him and after lunch, He was leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed for long periods of time.
On Thursday, the current Republican candidate for this year’s presidential election said on his social network that he did not fall asleep in court, but simply. He closed his “beautiful blue eyes” to listen “intensely.”
Donald Trump may testify
Judge Juan M. Merchan told former President Donald Trump this Friday The ‘gag order’ from his New York criminal trial does not prevent him from testifying and he has an “absolute” right to do so if you like.
Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York. Photo: Charly Triballeau EFE / EPA
Merchan, who is originally from Colombia and was raised in the Big Apple since childhood, made this clarification after Trump said outside the court on Thursday that he could not testify because of the step
The judge explained that the ‘gag order’, which prohibiting Trump from speaking publicly against witnesses, prosecutors and jurors, It will only come true when the former president is outside the criminal courtroom.
Therefore, he emphasized that the businessman is sure to testify if he decides, because it is a “constitutional and fundamental right.
Before the session started this Friday, Donald Trump told the media in the halls of the court that he had the ‘gag order’. It does not prevent him from testifying, although he forbids him to respond to people’s criticism; suggesting that his statement on Thursday was a mistake.
Trump has said that again He plans to testify to defend his innocence.
The tycoon is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying accounting records in the first degree to cover up an extramarital sex scandal. In the first three weeks of the trial, the prosecution has already presented seven witnesses.
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2024-05-03 23:44:41
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