The Inside Story of Hope Hicks, Donald Trump's Closest Confidant

was in proximity and and uh in every other way as close as you could get to that family without having the last name Trump I think arguably she was much closer to Donald Trump than a lot of his own children uh she was a lot closer than than a lot of the children she was around all the time uh she started at the Trump organization and became very close to Ivanka and sort of built her reputation there in the family and then found herself um it's sort of this comical almost like dark sitcom uh Donald Trump said we're going to Iowa and she said what do people wear in Iowa uh you know she did not intend to work on a presidential campaign uh and did not intend to work in a White House it was not her dream and yet she ended up there um in this incredibly toxic ultimately violent uh environment and saw a lot and has a near photographic memory even if that did not always come through in her testimony um and I I think it was probably very hard for Trump if he has emotions to see her in that position