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When Mike Ditka said no to Donald Trump — and Hope Hicks feared she’d hear, ‘You’re fired!’

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Former Chicago Bears Coach Mike Ditka (left) speaks at a news conference in Pittsburgh in 2015; Former President Donald Trump (right) speaks at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Tuesday.

Loyalty.

The first and last doctrine in Donald J. Trump’s world.

It’s the fealty line no one is permitted to cross. Do so. Fie. Bye, Bye.

So, it was a stunner this week when news hit that Hope Hicks, Trump’s former loyal White House counselor/communications chief, may testify as a prosecution witness in the former president’s Manhattan trial this month.