Donald Trump's former campaign press secretary and White House communications director Hope Hicks nervously took the stand on Friday and immediately broke out in tears. She expects us to believe that after working in the Trump White House, she's naive and thought that Trump and Michael Cohen were decent human beings.
She spoke of the Access Hollywood tape, among other things. "The tape was damaging. This was a crisis," Hicks said. She spoke of the Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal scandals, denying that Trump had an affair with either of the women. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell perfectly took her to task, and it was beautiful.
"Hope Hicks watched the Access Hollywood video and thought, yes, yes, that's who I want to keep working for tonight," O'Donnell said. "That's who I want to be president of the United States."
"I'm going to continue to work as hard as I can to make that man on that video bragging about sexual assault become the next president of the United States," he continued. "That's my mission. And that is who Hope Hicks wanted to be reelected as president of the United States."
"After he recommended injecting bleach into your veins to cure Covid, that's who Hope Hicks wanted to keep in the White House," the MSNBC host said. "We had a monster in the presidency, not because of Donald Trump, but because of the people who voted for Donald Trump and because of the people who worked for Donald Trump's campaign to get him there."
"You get monsters like Donald Trump thanks to people like Hope Hicks," he said. "People who White House reporters social kiss in the White House press briefing room. Reporters whose acceptance of Donald Trump is warmed by the charms of Hope Hicks."
"Witness Hope Hicks got off the witness stand today without being asked the most important question of her life," he continued. "She wasn't asked that question because it wasn't an important question in this trial."
"And that question is," he said. "Why didn't you quit? Why didn't you quit that presidential campaign in 2016 when it was so obvious to all of us that you were working for a pathological liar and a dangerous person?"
"Why didn't she quit?" he added. "Is a much more important question than why did she cry."
She sat in a hush money trial about how Trump interfered in the 2016 election by paying off women he had sexual encounters with just after his wife gave birth to their son. However, with McDougal, it was while Melania was pregnant. And Hicks denies this. I don't think she was being truthful on the stand. Hicks isn't a kid. She's 35-years-old-enough-to-know-better.
