2024 Official Trump Hush Money Trial: Guilty on all counts! BMG was right!
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we need melania to file for divorce in september
Why wait until September, how about now
if it happens now, he'll find a more cooperative whore who's actually willing to campaign with himWhy wait until September, how about now
Kariif it happens now, he'll find a more cooperative whore who's actually willing to campaign with him
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Melania needs to drop those divorce papers right before early voting starts.
she's like the one person who has the capability to take this campaign down
she DESPISES trump for putting her through being first lady. she never signed up for it. and she has ZERO interest in doing it again
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Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass, reading texts between former National Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard and Howard's unnamed relative:
Howard: "He's just been named President-elect."
Howard: "At least if he wins I will be pardoned for electoral fraud."
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Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass, reading texts between former National Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard and Howard's unnamed relative:
Howard: "He's just been named President-elect."
Howard: "At least if he wins I will be pardoned for electoral fraud."
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders has not yet responded to a request for comment about David Pecker’s testimony that she was involved, in her capacity as a White House official, in the hush money cover up, but Stephanie Grisham confirms that Sanders initiated discussions about the story “all the time.”
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Grisham was working for the First Lady. According to Grisham, Sarah Huckabee Sanders (now the governor of Arkansas) and Hope Hicks (an expected witness for the prosecution) contacted her to ask, “What did I know, what did Melania know, what were we going to do.”
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders has not yet responded to a request for comment about David Pecker’s testimony that she was involved, in her capacity as a White House official, in the hush money cover up, but Stephanie Grisham confirms that Sanders initiated discussions about the story “all the time.”
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Grisham was working for the First Lady. According to Grisham, Sarah Huckabee Sanders (now the governor of Arkansas) and Hope Hicks (an expected witness for the prosecution) contacted her to ask, “What did I know, what did Melania know, what were we going to do.”
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Umm. David Pecker testifies that he had a joint call with Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — taxpayer funded WH officials, at the time — about whether Karen McDougal’s contract should be extended. "Both of them said that they thought it was a good idea," Pecker said.
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Sarah Sanders faced questions about McDougal’s allegations of an affair from the White House briefing room.
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Umm. David Pecker testifies that he had a joint call with Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — taxpayer funded WH officials, at the time — about whether Karen McDougal’s contract should be extended. "Both of them said that they thought it was a good idea," Pecker said.
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Sarah Sanders faced questions about McDougal’s allegations of an affair from the White House briefing room.
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Hope Hicks & Sarah Huckabee Sanders conspired with a Pecker to cover up Trump in Karen McDougal porn case.
You can't make this up.
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Hope Hicks & Sarah Huckabee Sanders conspired with a Pecker to cover up Trump in Karen McDougal porn case.
You can't make this up.
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Trump's Pecker Problems Persist
Day 3 of David Pecker's Testimony- Ron Filipkowski
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15 minutes ago
Original:
5 hours ago
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker resumed his testimony on the witness stand again today for the third day in the felony election interference case against Donald Trump.
The prosecution started court by filing another motion to hold Trump in contempt of court for violating the gag order. This time it was his statement about the jury being "95% Democrats." They also brought up positive comments he made about Pecker this morning, arguing that he was sending a message to him that he better "be nice" to him when he testifies today.
Pecker resumed testifying about Playboy model Karen McDougal. Her attorney came to them with the story that she had a sexual relationship with Trump. He said he immediately called Michael Cohen. This call followed the same pattern as the others - Cohen immediately said it wasn't true but that he would check into it and call Pecker back.
Pecker said that McDougal didn't want to be "the next Monica Lewinski," although he didn't clarify exactly what she meant by that comment. Pecker said that Trump then called him and said that McDougal "is a nice girl" and asked him about rumors he heard that a publication in Mexico had offered $8 million for her story. He said that he understood that what Trump was saying was essentially code for an acknowledgement that there was a relationship between them.
Pecker says he told Trump he didn't believe the story about the Mexican publication was true. Nevertheless, Pecker said he told Trump they should buy the story and suppress it, but Trump said that he didn't want to do that because these stories tend to get into the public regardless.
However, the next day Michael Cohen called Pecker and told him to purchase the McDougal story. Pecker asked him who was going to pay for it. Cohen told him "the boss will take care of it." Pecker said he then told his Editor-in-Chief Dylan Howard to buy the story. He told Howard that he could offer her up to $150,000 for exclusive lifetime rights to the story.
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Pecker said he asked Michael Cohen why he should pay $150,000 for another story out of his pocket when he just paid $30,000 for the story from the Trump Tower doorman and still hadn't been reimbursed. He said Cohen assured him that Trump would pay him back. He said McDougal also wanted to write an article for one of his magazines about problems she was having with her breast implants as part of the arrangement.
He said that he then signed a contract with McDougal for exclusive rights to her story in August 2016, three months before the election. Pecker said he then consulted with an attorney who specialized in campaign finance law to make sure they weren't committing a crime by purchasing the story. He said that he wanted to make it clear in his agreement with McDougal that it was being done for "services to AMI,"(his parent company) even though it was not benefitting AMI in any way to kill the story.
Pecker was then asked if this language in the agreement was specifically intended to disguise the fact that it was being done to benefit Trump's campaign. He said that it was.
Pecker said they then paid McDougal $150,000 for the story, and never had any intention of publishing it because the point was to bury it from the public. Pecker said Cohen then told him to assign the contract he signed with McDougal over to him. He said that Cohen kept calling him saying that Trump wanted all the documents he had compiled up to that point pertaining to embarrassing stories about Trump brought down to Florida. Pecker asked him why that was so important and Cohen told him that Trump was concerned that if anything happened to Pecker then his successor might go ahead and publish the story.
Pecker said he then told Cohen that articles unrelated to Trump that McDougal was going to write for them were worth $25,000 to the company, so he needed Trump to reimburse him for the remaining $125,000 they paid her. Cohen told him that was no problem. Pecker said he directed Cohen to write a check to Daniel Rothstein, who lived in Florida near Mar-a-Lago and had an account that he used to pay paparazzi for photos to run in Pecker's magazine.
He said that Cohen created 'Resolution Consultants' to launder the repayment through him to cover up what it was for. Pecker said that he did not want any record of a direct payment from Trump or Cohen to his company because then the other Editors at the company would find out what he was doing for Trump's campaign. Then he said he had consulted with an attorney and got cold feet and told Cohen that he didn't want to go through with the arrangement and wanted to cancel the deal. He said Cohen got very upset and told him that Trump was going to be furious.
Pecker said he first heard about the Stormy Daniels allegations shortly after the Access Hollywood tape became public. He said Howard called him while he was out to dinner and told him that her representative was shopping a story about having sex with Trump. He told Pecker that they wanted $120,000 for the story and that the Daily Mail and GMA were also interested in buying it. He said that Walmart was the biggest distributor of his magazines and he thought if it got out they were doing business with a porn star that could hurt the company.
Pecker said he called Cohen and he wanted them to purchase the Daniels story. He told Cohen that he wasn't interested because he already paid $30,000 to the doorman and $150,000 to McDougal and he didn't want to go into business with a porn star for another $120,000 that he might never get reimbursed for. Pecker said Cohen told him that Trump will be "furious" at him for not buying the story and insisted that he go forward. Pecker said that he already regretted going this far with the scheme and that Trump was Cohen's boss, so if he wanted to keep him happy he should purchase the story himself.
Pecker said he was told that McDougal was about to do an interview with ABC in violation of their agreement, but he checked it out and it wasn't true. He said Trump called him, was angry, and accused them of leaking the story. Pecker insisted that they had not leaked the story to anyone and the ABC interview was not happening as far as he knew. Pecker said Trump was "very mad" and hung up the phone on him.
Howard then called McDougal's lawyer to see if there was any truth to the story that she was about to do an ABC interview. Her lawyer said that she was not taking any calls from anyone about this. He then learned that the Wall Street Journal had the story, so at that point he wanted his PR firm to represent McDougal because it was inevitable that the story was coming out and the best they could do was "manage" and "control" it.
It was at this time that Cohen told Pecker that Trump never reimbursed him for the $130,000 he paid to Stormy Daniels. Pecker said he assumed Trump had made the original payment and didn't realize Cohen paid him with his own money. Pecker said he then had a conversation with Trump where he told him that Cohen was very worried that he wasn't going to get reimbursed. He said he told Trump that Cohen was "very loyal" and that he would "throw himself under a bus for you." Trump replied that Cohen was "working very hard." Trump told Pecker not to worry about it.
Pecker said he was then invited to meet with Trump at Trump Tower. He said when he arrived Jared Kushner greeted him and took him upstairs. When he was brought in Mike Pompeo was there and he was introduced to everyone as the publisher of the Enquirer, and joked that Pecker knew more than anyone else in the room. He said that Trump meant it as a joke but nobody else knew what he was talking about. Pecker said after everyone left Trump asked him, "How's my girl?" referring to McDougal. He then thanked Pecker for killing the McDougal and doorman story.
Pecker was then asked if he thought Trump wanted to kill these stories to protect his family or for the campaign. Pecker said it was for his campaign. When asked why he came to that conclusion, Pecker said, "His family was never mentioned" in any of their conversations. He was asked if Trump ever expressed concern about Melania finding out about his affairs. Pecker said he never did.
Pecker said after the election he received a call from Trump's assistant in the White House in July 2017 to invite him and his wife there for a 'thank you' dinner. He said his wife did not want to go, so Trump told him that he was allowed to bring friends instead. He went with Howard and Rothstein. He said that Jared Kushner and Sean Spicer were also at the dinner. He said Trump asked him how Karen McDougal was doing. He told her that she was being quiet so everything was good.
A month after his dinner at the White House with Trump, Pecker said he met with McDougal and her lawyer at a restaurant with Howard. They discussed the articles she was writing for them and that they were using ghost writers to help. He said the real purpose of the dinner was to make sure that she understood their agreement was continuing and he expected her to continue to keep quiet about her affair with Trump. He told her that he wanted to make sure that she was still part of their "family."
Pecker said that several months later he saw McDougal's interview with Anderson Cooper. He said Trump called him the next day with Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders on the line and asked him if he watched it. He said that he had. Trump said he thought that they had an agreement that she wasn't supposed to talk to the press about him and asked him what happened. Pecker said he told Trump that he amended her agreement. Trump got upset about that and wanted to know why. McDougal had sued them to break her agreement and he said he wasn't willing to litigate that against her. Trump then also brought up the fact that Stormy Daniels was also violating their agreement by talking to the press.
The FEC then contacted Pecker and he got very worried that he was in trouble. He called Cohen, who told him not to worry because Trump had Attorney General Jeff Sessions "in his pocket" and he would squash any investigation. Pecker decided not to accept those representations and made a deal to cooperate with DOJ in exchange for immunity as long as he testified truthfully. He said he was later also given immunity by the Manhattan DA. He said his company had to pay a fine to the FEC of $180,000 for what they did to cover for Trump.
Pecker said that he has no animosity or bad feelings towards Trump despite everything that happened, and that concluded his direct examination from the prosecution.
Trump's lawyer Emil Bove then began cross-examination. Pecker said that he would buy stories on other celebrities all the time and not use them for a variety of reasons. Sometimes he would agree to kill stories about them as long as they would sit down and do an interview. Bove got Pecker to agree that he had done similar things to cover up stories for other celebrities and politicians, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ron Perlman, Ari Emmanuel, Rahm Emmanuel, Mark Wahlberg and Tiger Woods.
Pecker said Michael Cohen sometimes asked him to do favors for himself, which included having paparazzi photograph him.
This report was compiled from excellent reporting in the courtroom and in the courthouse from Anna Bower of Lawfare, Inner City Press, Adam Klasfeld and Erica Orden from Politico.
donald looking very low energy in his post court rambling
This idiot needs some new material. "This case never should have happened, never should have been filed" blah blah blah heard it all before
Also, take it like a man you fukking p*ssy
