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California temporarily suspended his law license in March over his role in a legal strategy to help Donald Trump stay in power after his 2020 election loss.
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 Carlos Barria/ReutersHope Hicks, Donald Trump's first political PR guru and presumed holder of all his dirty secrets, started crying on the stand as the former president's legal team questioned her at his New York criminal trial on Friday.
Hicks instantly broke down when Trump defense lawyer Emile Bove began his cross-examination, asking her about how she was initially hired to work with the Trump Organization. After a brief break was called to allow her to compose herself, Hicks returned to the stand, taking deep breaths and refusing to look in Trump's direction.
From the moment she walked into the courtroom at 11:30 a.m., the atmosphere immediately changed. The 35-year-old publicist—who normally carries herself confidently and owns the room—slowly made her way into the courtroom through a side door that's disguised as a wall panel and uneasily made her way past the red-velvet rope that separates the battle area from the public pews. She kept her head down, with her feathered blonde hair drooping over her eyes as she gripped a black purse in her left hand.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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