One of them is still grappling with feelings of guilt over what is now alleged to have been a successful attempt at election interference.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Lachlan Cartwright still feels guilty. The Australian remembers watching in horror as a fake story about a Trump rival planted by his employer, the, was picked up by the mainstream media and used as ammunition by Donald Trump in his campaign to win the presidential nomination for the 2016 election.
Pecker gave evidence that during a 20-minute meeting convened by Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, Pecker agreed to use his network, as the publisher of the top-sellingto be the “eyes and ears” of Trump’s 2016 election campaign: burying damaging stories about his alleged infidelities and running negative news about his political rivals.
Dylan Howard, a former Channel Seven reporter pictured here in 2014, made a career for himself in the US tabloid industry.but rose to prominence as a reporter at Seven after a controversial story that involved publishing and paying for the private medical records of two AFL players that a member of the public had supposedly “found” in the gutter.
Asked by prosecutors if he had ever paid a source to kill a story about Donald Trump before then, Pecker replied: “No I did not”. “But for Mr Howard’s inability to travel, he would have again, voluntarily, answered questions at the trial.” The other part involved publishing positive stories to boost the Republican’s popularity, while running negative stories about his rivals.
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