Katherine Doyle is a White House reporter for NBC News.
In bombshell testimony Friday, Hope Hicks relayed cascading concerns inside Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign as a lewd tape and allegations that he had had affairs with a Playboy model and a porn star emerged in the waning days of the election. A close aide to Trump who spoke daily with him, Hicks said Trump’s campaign feared the potential ramifications of the Hollywood Access tape on the pending election.
“He knew what he wanted to say and how he wanted to say it; he deserves the credit for the different messages that the campaign focused on.” It was a small team, and when Hicks, then the campaign spokeswoman, received an email from a reporter asking about the Access Hollywood tape, she recalled forwarding the request for comment to a close circle of advisers, some of whom remain with Trump today.
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