Lisa Rubin Compares ‘Credibility’ of Hope Hicks and Stormy Daniels: One Worked for Trump Twice, ‘Who Lacks Credibility Now?’

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RUBIN: "Nobody’s testimony is, in some respects, more devastating to the former president than Hope Hicks. Because of her proximity, nobody questioned her credibility. But if you take a step back and you separate these women and you forget about the accident of their respective births — Hope Hicks, for example, coming from very wealthy Greenwich, Connecticut, being raised as a Ralph Lauren model, sort of the epitome of poise and grace in the Trump White House, contrasted with Stormy Daniels, who had, by contrast, a very rough childhood, a mother who abandoned her, all of this comes out on her direct examination. But the difference in how they were trusted, I think is really palpable and sort of a toxic brew of class and misogyny. There was absolutely a judgment about her credibility based on what she did for a living. And then you have to think to yourself, 'Wait a second, Hope Hicks may look the way that she did, but she not only worked for Trump once, she worked for Trump twice. She left the White House in March of 2018, came back to work for the former president, and stayed after he lost the election, despite the fact that she was privately advising him that he had lost, and the things that his lawyers or allies were saying about his not losing the election and his winning were fraudulent. She still stayed. And so I gotta ask the question, like, who lacks credibility now?"