David Pecker testified he paid $20,000 for a story about an alleged Rahm Emanuel affair before Emanuel kicked off his bid for Chicago mayor in 2010.
The ex-publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid testified during former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial Thursday that in the run-up to Rahm Emanuel’s first run for Chicago mayor, the publisher helped quash a story about an alleged affair Emanuel had.
Pecker testified he had a relationship with Emanuel’s brother, Ari, a well-known Hollywood talent agent, and had worked with him to buy stories about celebrities and suppress them, a process known as “catch-and-kill,” according to Politico. Pecker’s statements about catching and killing the alleged Emanuel affair story and stories he said would have been damaging to various celebrities came under cross-examination by Trump’s lawyers.
In all, Pecker and his company, American Media Inc., contributed $33,200 to Emanuel’s mayoral campaign fund, according to records with the Illinois State Board of Elections.
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