Pecker Admits Payoffs Were Meant To Influence Election

CNN reports:

The prosecution is having Pecker confirm that the purpose of the National Enquirer’s contract with former Playboy model Karen McDougal was to suppress her potentially damaging story about Donald Trump and help influence the 2016 election. Additional items about writing articles and appearing on covers were extraneous, Pecker confirmed, in response to prosecutor Joshua Steinglass, who is bringing things back to his team’s central argument about the agreement.

The provisions about McDougal getting to write articles and appear on covers of the tabloid were “included in the contract as a disguise,” Pecker says. Pecker testifies he never told his company’s general counsel that the true purpose of the deal was to influence the election. He also never told the attorney that he planned to transfer the rights to Michael Cohen, who pledged to reimburse him.

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Testifying in Trump’s trial today, David Pecker confirmed under oath that he bought Former Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story when he was running the National Enquirer as part of a scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election.

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