Donald Trump’s former communications director Hope Hicks testified at his criminal trial in Manhattan on Friday.
The ex-White House adviser was working for his campaign when “hush money” deals were made with porn Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal.
That’s why she is a key witness for the prosecution and plays a central role in their case that the former president falsified business documents.
While taking the stand, DailyMail.com revealed that she is getting married later this summer to a man 20 years her senior.
Hicks first worked for the former president at the Trump Organization before joining his 2016 campaign. She served in the White House as a top aide but resigned in 2018. She later returned to Trump’s White House as he ran for re-election.
When did Hope Hicks work for Donald Trump?
Hicks began working for the Trump Organization in 2014 under the former president’s daughter, Ivanka.
The publicist quickly became one of his closest confidantes and trusted staff members.
In 2015, she joined Trump’s first presidential campaign as press secretary and guided him to a stunning victory against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
When she joined the Trump administration, she became the White House director of strategic communications.
She resigned in 2018 after being interviewed for nine hours by the House panel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.
After she quit, she worked for Fox News in Los Angeles and is now a communications consultant.
Hope Hicks with Trump on the campaign trail in October 2020. During her testimony on Friday, Hicks revealed that she has not had contact with Trump since the summer or fall of 2022
What testimony did Hope Hicks give during Donald Trump’s hush money trial?
Hicks took the stand and provided compelling testimony about her experiences working with the ex-president at the Trump Organization, his wild 2016 campaign and her time in the White House.
Hicks was the ultimate insider in the Trump world and appeared in court on Friday after being subpoenaed in the hush money case.
She gave detailed testimony about her work for Trump and at one point even burst into tears.
Hicks was a key figure in handling the 2016 campaign’s responses to the Access Hollywood tape and in limiting the damage over Trump’s alleged affairs with Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels.
She revealed her interactions with Michael Cohen and explained how the former president feared affair allegations would affect his marriage to Melania.
Hicks had already been mentioned during testimony in which ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker told the jury that he knows her because he met her while she was working for Ivanka Trump and doing public relations for Star magazine.
Trump poses for a photo with then-White House Communications Director Hope Hicks on her last day before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, March 29, 2018
Who is Hope Hicks fiancé Jim Donovan and when are they getting married?
DailyMail.com has revealed that Hope Hicks will soon be given a new title: that of Mrs.
The lucky man is none other than Goldman Sachs boss Jim Donovan, 57, whose secret romance with 35-year-old Hicks was revealed by DailyMail.com in 2020.
Sources have told DailyMail.com that the wedding will take place this summer, but not before Hicks appears as a witness at Trump’s hush money trial.
Father-of-four Donovan came into Hicks’ life shortly before she returned to DC to rejoin the Trump White House.
The 57-year-old was repeatedly spotted at her Brentwood home in the weeks leading up to her return to the east coast, with DailyMail.com photographing the now engaged couple as they enjoyed a double date at swanky Mr Chow restaurant and a lunch of three o’clock. at celebrity hotspot Nobu.
Hicks, 35, and Jim Donovan, 57, are getting married this summer after their secret romance was revealed in 2020
Donovan’s career has proven hugely successful, with the 57-year-old holding the position of vice chairman of Goldman Sachs.
One of his previous clients was Bain Capital, a private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney, who later hired Donovan as an adviser during his 2012 presidential campaign.
He later worked on Jeb Bush’s failed bid to become the Republican presidential nominee in 2016, but the following year he was nominated by President Trump for the No. 2 job at the Treasury Department.
Two months after his appointment, Donovan withdrew due to family issues. In a statement released at the time, he said: “I am deeply honored by President Trump’s decision to nominate me as Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury.