Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified during Trump's hush-money trial about the catch-and-kill scheme to boost Trump in 2016.
’s hush money trial heard testimony on Tuesday from the architect of a notorious “catch-and-kill” scheme that buried damaging stories about the former president in the run-up to the 2016 election: formercatch-and-kill arrangement with the Trump campaign and revealed just how involved Trump and his fixer, Michael Cohen, were in dictating the publication’s 2016 campaign coverage.
“If there were any rumors in the marketplace about Mr. Trump, or his family, or any negative stories that were coming out or things that I heard overall that I would go through, I would call Michael Cohen directly,” Pecker said, adding that he kept the arrangement “highly confidential” given the prevalence of leaks within the campaign.Pecker admitted under oath that he had never purchased a story on Trump in order to prevent its publication prior to his 2015 meeting with the former president.
Pecker also explained how he would often communicate with Cohen about upcoming stories bashing Trump’s rivals and that Cohen would “comment on them, so we would add content based on the information.”
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