(FILES) Hope Hicks smiles at US President Donald Trump during a Make America Great Again rally at Dubuque Regional Airport on November 1, 2020, in Dubuque, Iowa. Hicks, Trump's former campaign press secretary, became the first former member of Donald Trump's inner circle to take the witness stand in his historic criminal trial on May 3, 2024. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)