Hope Hicks, left; Donald Trump, center; Kellyann Conway, right.
Hope Hicks, left; Donald Trump, center; Kellyanne Conway, right.
  • Kellyanne Conway and Hope Hicks have met with prosecutors probing a 2016 Trump hush money payment.
  • Both could directly link Trump to the payment, federal prosecutors have said in the past.
  • The $130,000 secured adult actress Stormy Daniels' silence concerning an alleged affair with Trump.

Hope Hicks and Kellyanne Conway — two of Donald Trump's most trusted advisors in his improbable 2016 climb to the presidency — could now impact his 2024 campaign by directly linking him to a hush-money scheme from their earliest days together.