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A former federal prosecutor said Hope Hicks’ breaking down in tears on Friday as she testified at Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York City was “icing on the cake” for prosecutors in the former president’s hush-money case. Hicks, who was the communications director in the Trump administration and his top press campaign aide in 2016, told the court about the mood in the White House in January 2018 when a Wall Street Journal report revealed that Michael Cohen had paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to buy her silence weeks before the 2016 election about a sexual affair she claimed she ha…

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