Former Trump aide Hope Hicks testifies he told her to deny Stormy Daniels affair

Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings in his criminal trial at the New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York, Thursday, May, 2, 2024. Doug Mills/Pool via REUTERS

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Hope Hicks, a former top aide to Donald Trump, testified on Friday that he told her in the final days of the 2016 presidential election to deny that he had a sexual relationship with porn star Stormy Daniels.

Hicks' testimony gave jurors an inside look at the campaign's damage-control efforts when Trump faced multiple accusations of unflattering sexual behavior in the waning weeks of his successful White House campaign.