59/ Phang:
Hicks shared the email with Trump verbally; they were trying to get a copy of the audio to assess the situation further.
“Everyone was just absorbing the shock of it.”
Hicks has a vague recollection of starting to read the transcript, and then Trump read the rest of it himself before telling her, “That
👉🏼doesn’t sound like something I would say.”
[She and Press have same reporting]