Hope Hicks, a former White House communications director, stated on Friday that there was anxiety surrounding former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Hicks claimed that many were afraid of what might happen as a result of the Stormy Daniels and Trump “Access Hollywood” tape.

The former director of White House communications testified before Manhattan prosecutors during the hush money trial, claiming that the leak of the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape completely destroyed Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Concern over the possible political fallout from a recording that purportedly showed the former president boasting about having sex with women without their consent dogged Trump’s 2016 campaign.

According to rumors, the former president gave Stormy Daniels $130,000 through Michael Cohen, his attorney, in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.

Hicks said he was taken aback and huddled up with other Trump advisors when the news of the tape’s existence came on October 7, 2016, roughly a month before the election, via a Washington Post reporter.

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Hicks forwarded the reporter’s request to campaign leadership with the recommendation to “deny, deny, deny,” she said.

She testified: “I had a good sense to believe this was going to be a massive story and that it was going to dominate the news cycle for the next several days.

“This was a damaging development.

“This was just pulling us backwards in a way that was going to be hard to overcome.”

She was called to testify by the prosecution in order to support their claims that Trump conspired to obstruct the publication of embarrassing accounts of his personal life in order to improperly influence the 2016 presidential election.

Alvin Bragg, the district attorney for Manhattan, has worked to demonstrate this connection in an effort to convince the public of the case’s importance as well as to get a conviction in what may be the only one of four Trump prosecutions to get to trial this year.

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Hicks informed the jury that Trump maintained his ignorance of Cohen’s $130,000 payment to Daniels in order to keep her from disclosing her alleged sexual encounter with him.

According to her, Trump eventually arrived at the conclusion that it would be wise to keep Daniel’s tale secret, reasoning that “it would have been bad to have that story come out before the election.”

However, Hicks retorted that everything they discussed at the time was seen through the prism of the campaign when asked if Trump was similarly concerned about the story’s effect on the campaign.

In presence of the parliament on Tuesday, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took the oath of office for a third term as the president of the most populous nation in the Arab world.

After defeating three relative unidentified contestants in a December election with 89.6 percent of the vote, Sisi, who has been in office for the last ten years, is expected to hold the presidency until 2030.

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Unless he manages to pass another constitutional change to extend his term, the 69-year-old’s six-year term is expected to be his last.

The New Administrative Capital of Egypt, which is situated in the desert east of Cairo, was also inaugurated on the occasion of the swearing, according to local media.

Massive demonstrations against Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, who was overthrown in 2013, helped Sisi ascend to power.

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The following year, with about 97% of the vote, he was elected president once more, this time in 2018.

His administration has been fighting for the last two years to stem the flow of consequences from a harsh economic crisis that has caused the currency to lose two thirds of its value and sent inflation skyrocketing to a record 40 percent last year.

However, more than $50 billion in loans and investment agreements were made to Egypt in the first quarter of 2024. Cairo claims this will alleviate the country’s severe foreign exchange shortages and boost the economy.

Former President Trump has asked that President Joe Biden immediately apologize to millions of Catholics and Christians for declaring Easter Sunday to be Trans Visibility Day.

The Biden administration’s “years-long assault on the Christian faith,” according to the Trump campaign, is what led to the action.

Following the outcry from well-known politicians and conservative pundits over the “Transgender Day of Visibility” at the most solemn Christian festival, Trump demanded that President Biden issue an apology.

“The Biden White House has betrayed the central tenet of Easter, which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson in a post on X. It is foolish and immoral to forbid both sacred truth and custom while also designating Easter Sunday as “Transgender Day.” The people of America are paying attention.

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Biden inspired anger last week when he proclaimed March 31 to be the “Transgender Day of Visibility,” which falls on Easter Sunday this year.

Biden’s official declaration of Easter Sunday as “Trans Day of Visibility” was deemed “appalling and insulting” by Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s national press secretary.

Biden’s declaration, according to Leavitt, is an illustration of his administration’s “years-long assault on the Christian faith.”

“We call on Joe Biden’s failing campaign and the White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only—the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” she said.