08-24-2018, 12:27 AM
Also today, this toothy Pecker, a long-time buddy of Trump, made the headlines.
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David Pecker is the CEO of AMI, which publishes the tabloid National Enquirer.
The National Enquirer ran all kinds of false and salacious stories about Trump's competitors during the primaries and then focused more of the same against Hillary Clinton once she became the Democrat nominee running against Trump.
We know now that shortly before election day the National Enquirer also pretended to buy, for the sake of publishing, the stories of Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, both of whom claimed to have had relations with Trump.
Instead, the paper gave them the money, had the women sign NDAs, and buried the stories to protect Trump. The arrangement was coordinated by Michael Cohen, who recently released a tape of his discussion with Trump about the plan for McDougal before the deal went down.
Michael Cohen, Trump's long-time personal attorney and 'fixer', pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 8 counts of campaign finance violations, tax evasion, and making false statements. He implicated candidate Trump when he said he was carrying out Trump's orders.
So back to Pecker...............the case against Cohen relies, in part, on his collusion with Pecker to protect Trump. Today it was reported that Pecker was granted immunity from the federal prosecutors for his cooperation in the Cohen investigation. That means that if Pecker committed a crime or crimes, he won't be charged if he tells the truth about what transpired.
Today, Trump (who previously denied knowing anything about any of it) told the FOX interviewer that he paid the hush money to the two women himself. He said that wasn't a crime and wasn't a campaign finance violation. Well, if there's evidence and/or witness testimony which proves that Trump hushed the women so as not to hurt his election chances, it is in fact a campaign finance crime since Trump didn't declare the payouts as campaign contributions.
Stay tuned for more shady shit, double-talking, and back-tracking.
Refs:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pecker-gran...1535041976
https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/david-peck...roversies/
David Pecker is the CEO of AMI, which publishes the tabloid National Enquirer.
The National Enquirer ran all kinds of false and salacious stories about Trump's competitors during the primaries and then focused more of the same against Hillary Clinton once she became the Democrat nominee running against Trump.
We know now that shortly before election day the National Enquirer also pretended to buy, for the sake of publishing, the stories of Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, both of whom claimed to have had relations with Trump.
Instead, the paper gave them the money, had the women sign NDAs, and buried the stories to protect Trump. The arrangement was coordinated by Michael Cohen, who recently released a tape of his discussion with Trump about the plan for McDougal before the deal went down.
Michael Cohen, Trump's long-time personal attorney and 'fixer', pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 8 counts of campaign finance violations, tax evasion, and making false statements. He implicated candidate Trump when he said he was carrying out Trump's orders.
So back to Pecker...............the case against Cohen relies, in part, on his collusion with Pecker to protect Trump. Today it was reported that Pecker was granted immunity from the federal prosecutors for his cooperation in the Cohen investigation. That means that if Pecker committed a crime or crimes, he won't be charged if he tells the truth about what transpired.
Today, Trump (who previously denied knowing anything about any of it) told the FOX interviewer that he paid the hush money to the two women himself. He said that wasn't a crime and wasn't a campaign finance violation. Well, if there's evidence and/or witness testimony which proves that Trump hushed the women so as not to hurt his election chances, it is in fact a campaign finance crime since Trump didn't declare the payouts as campaign contributions.
Stay tuned for more shady shit, double-talking, and back-tracking.
Refs:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pecker-gran...1535041976
https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/david-peck...roversies/