'Cringy' Access Hollywood tape reading was more 'damning' to Trump than the video: expert


by Raw Story

Raw Story— Manhattan prosecutors Monday read to the jury transcripts of former President Donald Trump's notorious "Access Hollywood" tape, prompting one legal expert to describe it as both "cringy" and "damning." The reading came after a debate between District Attorney Alvin Bragg's team and Trump's lawyers over whether the video could be aired in Trump's criminal hush money trial. Judge Juan Merchan ultimately ruled the transcript was permissible but not the video. Speaking to MSNBC on Monday...

WBAL-TV—Hope Hicks, ex-Trump adviser, recounts fear in Trump's 2016 campaign over 'Access Hollywood' tape. Donald Trump's 2016 campaign was seized with worry about the potential political damage from a tape that showed Trump bragging about...

Yahoo—Trump trial updates: Hope Hicks testifies about Trump's reaction to 'Access Hollywood' tape, affair allegations. Former President Donald Trump’s former campaign aide and White House communications director Hope Hicks testified Friday about her efforts to knock down negative stories about her boss during the 2016 campaign.

The Independent—Insiders thought Access Hollywood tape would be beginning of the end for Trump, trial hears. Stormy Daniels’s lawyer Keith Davidson detailed the urgency to bury damaging allegations involving Trump after the tape’s release in the weeks before Election Day in 2016