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Hope Hicks
May 3, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Key Hush-Money Witness Just Exposed Trump’s Biggest Lie Yet
Hope Hicks revealed Trump knew about the hush-money payments all along.
May 3, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Hope Hicks: Access Hollywood Tape Had Trumpworld Totally Freaked Out
Although Donald Trump downplayed the tape, his advisers were panicking.
May 3, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Hope Hicks Drops Major Bomb on Trump’s Main Hush-Money Defense
The key witness wrecked Trump’s main defense just minutes into her testimony.
April 25, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Even More People Were in on Trump’s Hush-Money Scheme Than We Knew
David Pecker revealed he had spoken with senior White House advisers.
April 19, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Finally Sees Consequences for his Big Mouth in Hush-Money Trial
Judge Juan Merchan penalized the former president and his legal team.
April 8, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Hush-Money Case Got Two New Witnesses—and It’s Not Looking Good
Trump’s former assistant and former director of Oval Office operations are expected to testify.
April 1, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s First Criminal Trial Just Got a New Witness—and She’s a Doozy
Former Trump aide Hope Hicks is expected to take the stand in Trump’s hush-money trial. Buckle up.
April 19, 2019
Walter Shapiro
The Mueller Report’s Lasting Damage to Trump
A lesson from Watergate: Never underestimate the power of political gravity.
October 30, 2018
Marcy Wheeler
If Trump Fires Mueller
How a Democratic-controlled House can salvage the Russia investigation
April 2, 2018
Jeet Heer
All the President’s Courtiers
Hope Hicks was never an answer to Trump's capriciousness—she was always only a symptom of it.
March 5, 2018
Jeet Heer
Trump’s Chaos Is Becoming America’s Chaos
His push for a trade war shows how an "isolated and angry" president could wreak havoc for the country.
March 1, 2018
Sarah Jones
If Hope Hicks can’t survive the White House, can anyone?

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