New York Times: “Hope Hicks could be remembered as a key witness for both sides. She testified as prosecutors expected about the effect of the Access Hollywood tape on the campaign, noted that Trump was micro-manager who closely supervised everything around him and acknowledged that it seemed unbelievable that Cohen would pay hush money to Stormy Daniels of his own accord.”
“But she also may have helped the defense lawyers, giving them grist to argue that Trump was a family man, and that his motive for suppressing damaging stories may not have been to win the election. Rather, they could argue, it may have been something more personal — to protect his relationship with his family and the wife whose opinion he took very seriously.”
Maggie Haberman said Trump “looks very unhappy as he departs the courtroom, and his lawyer Todd Blanche is not smiling.”
