‘Catch and kill’: Tabloid chief reveals scheme to quash Trump stories during hush money testimony
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National Enquirer publisher David Pecker is the first witness in Donald Trump’s history-making hush money trial. Here’s what the former president’s longtime friend told the jury and what comes next in the case.
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By Kara Scannell and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — David Pecker, the former chairman of the National Enquirer’s parent company, is expected to be the first witness called by the Manhattan district attorney’s office in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, according to a person famil…
(CNN) — David Pecker, the former chairman of the National Enquirer’s parent company, is expected to be the first witness called by the Manhattan district attorney’s
National Enquirer publisher David Pecker is the first witness in Donald Trump’s history-making hush money trial. Here’s what the former president’s longtime friend told the jury and what comes next in the case.
David Pecker has previously cooperated with federal investigations into payments made to two women who were going to allege they had affairs with Trump ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Prosecutors say David Pecker, a former National Inquirer publisher and friend of Donald Trump, worked with the former president and his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, on a “catch-and-kill" strategy to buy up and spike negative stories during the 2016 campaign.
Former tabloid executive David Pecker testified Tuesday that he struck a 2015 agreement with his longtime friend Donald Trump to publish positive National Enquirer stories about the mogul's 2016 presidential run, as prosecutors set the foundation of their case over alleged hush money payments.
David Pecker has previously cooperated with federal investigations into payments made to two women who were going to allege they had affairs with Trump ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
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