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Andrew Weissmann, the former top prosecutor on former special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, explained on Friday why he thinks former Donald Trump aide Hope Hicks was such a “devastating” witness against the former president in his criminal case. Hicks, who cried on the stand for what some experts say are “dark” reasons, testified that she didn’t believe Trump’s suggestion that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen paid Stormy Daniels out of the goodness of his heart. The prosecution alleges the “hush money” payment was used to affect the election in 2016. But for Weissmann, Hicks destroyed Trum…

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