Trump's defense attorneys will try to poke holes in the testimony of Pecker, who has described helping bury embarrassing stories.
NEW YORK — After prosecutors’ lead witness painted a tawdry portrait of “catch and kill” tabloid schemes, defense lawyers in’s hush money trial are poised Friday to dig into an account of the former publisher of the National Enquirer and his efforts to
The charges center on $130,000 in payments that Trump’s company made to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen. He paid that sum on Trump’s behalf to keepfrom going public with her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier. Trump has denied the encounter ever happened. “I said to Michael, ‘My suggestion to you is that you should buy the story, and you should take it off the market because if you don’t and it gets out, I believe the boss will be very angry with you.’”At HuffPost, we believe that everyone needs high-quality journalism, but we understand that not everyone can afford to pay for expensive news subscriptions. That is why we are committed to providing deeply reported, carefully fact-checked news that is freely accessible to everyone.
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