David Pecker's testimony at the ex president's hush money trial has been a key part of the prosecution's case.
was scooping up potentially damaging stories about the candidate and paying out tens of thousands of dollars to keep them from the public eye.
Pecker's testimony was a critical building block for the prosecution's theory that their partnership was a way to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election. The Manhattan district attorney is seeking to elevate the gravity of the history-making first trial of a former American president and the first of four criminal cases against Trump to reach a jury.
But the former president has a long history of emerging unscathed from sticky situations — if not becoming even more popular. "I think the Supreme Court has a very important argument before it today," Trump said outside the courtroom. "I should be there." "There is no case here. This is just a political witch hunt," he said before court in brief comments to reporters.
Howard said he heard from Daniels' representatives that she was trying to sell her story and that the tabloid could acquire it for $US120,000, Pecker told jurors. Pecker was tapped out; he told Cohen as much.
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