Who is former Trump aide Hope Hicks and when is she getting married to Jim Donovan?

Donald Trump's former communications director Hope Hicks testified in his criminal trial in Manhattan on Friday.

The ex-White House adviser worked for his campaign when 'hush money' deals were arranged with porn Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal.

Therefore she is key witness for the prosecution, and is central to their case that the former president falsified business records.

As she took the stand, DailyMail.com revealed she is set to get married later this summer to a man twenty years her senior.

Hicks first worked for the former President at the Trump Organization before joining his 2016 campaign. She served in the White House as a top aide but resigned in 2018. She later returned to the Trump White House as he was running for reelection

When did Hope Hicks work for Donald Trump? 

Hicks started working for the Trump Organization in 2014 under the former president's daughter, Ivanka.

The publicist quickly became one of his closest confidantes and trusted members of staff.

In 2015, she joined Trump's first presidential campaign as press secretary and guided him through to a stunning victory against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

When she joined the Trump administration, she became the White House director of strategic communications.

She resigned in 2018 after she was interviewed for nine hours by the House panel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

After she quit, she worked for Fox News in Los Angeles and is now a communications consultant. 

Hope Hicks with Trump on the campaign trail in October 2020. During her testimony on Friday, Hicks revealed that she has not been in contact with Trump since the summer or fall of 2022

What testimony did Hope Hicks give at Donald Trump's hush money trial?

Hicks took the stand and delivered riveting testimony on her experience with the ex-president at the Trump Organization, his wild 2016 campaign and her time at the White House.

Hicks was an ultimate insider in Trump world and appeared in court on Friday having been subpoenaed in the hush money case.

She gave detailed testimony on working for Trump and at one point even burst into tears.

Hicks was a key figure in handling the 2016 campaign's responses to the Access Hollywood tape as well as damage control over Trump's alleged affairs with Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels.

She revealed her interactions with Michael Cohen and detailed how the former president was worried affair allegations would impact his marriage to Melania.

Hicks had already been mentioned during testimony with ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker telling the jury that he knows her, having met her while she was working for Ivanka Trump and doing public relations for Star magazine.

Trump poses for picture with then White House Communications Director Hope Hicks on her last day before he boarded Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, March 29, 2018

Who is Hope Hick's fiancé Jim Donovan and when are they marrying?

DailyMail.com has revealed that Hope Hicks is soon to acquire a new title: that of Mrs.

The lucky man is none other than Goldman Sachs boss Jim Donovan, 57, whose secret romance with 35-year-old Hicks was revealed by DailyMail.com in 2020.

Sources have told DailyMail.com that the wedding will take place this summer - but not before Hicks appeared as a witness at Trump's hush money trial.

Dad-of-four Donovan entered Hicks' life shortly before her return to DC to rejoin the Trump White House.

The 57-year-old was repeatedly spotted at her Brentwood home in the weeks leading up to her return to the east coast, with DailyMail.com photographing the now-engaged couple enjoying a double date at swanky restaurant Mr Chow and three-hour lunch at celebrity hotspot Nobu.

Hicks, 35, and Jim Donovan, 57, are set to get hitched this summer after their secret romance was revealed in 2020

Donovan's career has proved hugely successful with the 57-year-old holding the position of vice chairman of Goldman Sachs.

One of his previous clients was Bain Capital, a private equity firm set up by Mitt Romney who later hired Donovan as an adviser during his 2012 presidential campaign.

He later went on to work on Jeb Bush's failed 2016 attempt to become the Republican presidential nominee but was nominated for the number two job at the Treasury by President Trump the following year.

Two months after his nomination, Donovan pulled out citing family concerns. In a statement released at the time, he said: 'I am deeply honored by President Trump's decision to nominate me as Deputy Secretary of the U.S Department of the Treasury.