Hope Hicks expected to testify in Trumps hush money trial | National-politics [Video]

(CNN) — Hope Hicks, once considered one of Donald Trump’s closest confidantes and most trusted aides, is expected to be called to testify at his criminal trial related to hush money payments, according to a source familiar with the case.

While nothing is final until the trial, which is scheduled to begin later this month, gets underway, Hicks is one of several witnesses from the former president’s orbit who are expected to take the stand. Besides his former fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen, others from Trump’s inner circle around the 2016 election, including those who worked on his presidential campaign, will likely be on the prosecution’s witness list.