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Hicks says Trump wanted to be sure there was a denial of any relationship with Stormy Daniels in 2016 article

From CNN

Hicks says a Wall Street Journal reporter told her on the phone that Stormy Daniels would also be mentioned in a forthcoming story about Karen McDougal.

She told Trump about it, and he "wanted to know the context, and he wanted to make sure that there was a denial of any kind of relationship," Hicks testifies.

"I felt the point of the story was that the National Enquirer paid a woman for her story and never published it," Hicks says.

"It wasn’t necessarily about accusations of, you know, certain behavior," she added, pausing slightly before finishing her sentence.

For context: The November 4, 2016, story references that McDougal lawyer Keith Davidson also represented Stormy Daniels, and that Daniels had been in discussion with ABC about potentially publicly disclosing her story.

The article said Daniels eventually cut off contact with the network without telling her story.