'I'm really nervous,' Hicks says as she begins testimony
"I'm really nervous," longtime Trump aide Hope Hicks said as prosecutor Matthew Colangelo asked her to move closer to the microphone on the witness stand.
Hicks testified that she joined the Trump Organization in 2014, about four years after she graduated from college. She first worked at a communications firm.
“I was enjoying it so much that I was offered a position at the Trump Organization, and jumped opportunity to join the company full time,” Hicks said.
“Shortly after I joined the Trump Organization, Mr. Trump -- at the time, Mr Trump -- said that he would be exploring a run for president,” she said.
Hicks said that she was subpoenaed to testify. She is paying for her own lawyer.
She testified she was last in communication with Trump in the summer or fall of 2022. She affirmed he is not a client of her own communications consulting company and she has no professional relationship with him