Conservative lawyer George Conway said former Trump aide Hope Hicks’ testimony at former President Trump’s secret trial “absolutely” corroborates his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s story about Trump in the case.
“She put into Donald Trump’s mouth the fact that he understood that these payments were made in his name before the election by Michael Cohen,” Conway said. he said on CNN’s “The Situation Room” with host Wolf Blitzer, while talking about Trump.
“And that is… that is a devastating testimony. This absolutely corroborates Michael Cohen’s story, which has been corroborated in many ways, and it shows that he knew that when he was signing those checks with the backup that said… he was doing it at the Resolute Desk, for God’s sake, that he , when he saw the backup, and the backup said ‘legal retainers,’ he knew that wasn’t true.”
Trump’s secret trial began last Monday, marking the first criminal trial of a former American president. He was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with reimbursements to Cohen, who paid an adult film actor $130,000 before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Trump, which he denies.
Cohen claimed the former president instructed him to make secret payments to women who said they had previous affairs with Trump.
“First of all, nothing in the Trump Organization was done unless it was run by Mr. Trump,” Cohen said in 2018. “He directed me to make the payments, he directed me to get involved in these matters.”
Hicks broke down on the stand Friday while talking about a call he had with his former boss in which he said Cohen had made a payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels out of the kindness of his heart. She seemed to have doubts that Cohen did it for that reason and called it “out of character.”
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