Watch CBS News By Graham Kates, Katrina Kaufman Updated on: April 23, 2024 / 8:40 PM EDT / CBS News Jurors in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York heard testimony Tuesday from David Pecker, a former media executive who described his efforts to use the National Enquirer to bury negative stories about…
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Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsMSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how Judge Merchan’s latest ruling to grant Stormy Daniels' motion to quash a subpoena from Donald Trump demanding a vast range of information from her documentary is yet another example of Trump’s humiliation at the hands of Daniels.April 24, 2024 © 2024 NBC UNIVERSAL source
LIVE UPDATESThe ex-National Enquirer publisher testified on Day 6 of Trump’s criminal trial.David Pecker says he’s ‘had a great relationship with Mr. Trump over the years’Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.…
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David Pecker testified about his catch-and-kill arrangement with Trump.Day 6 of former President Trump's criminal hush money trial featured testimony from David Pecker, the veteran tabloid editor, who described in detail the "catch-and-kill" arrangement he struck with Trump and his then-attorney Michael Cohen during the 2016 presidential election.The former president is on trial in New…
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The Trump trial turns tabloid – POLITICO POLITICOsource
SEARCHPecker testified at Trump’s historic hush-money trial on Tuesday about his efforts to ensure bad stories about the former president never saw the light of day.ReporterFormer National Enquirer boss David Pecker testified on Tuesday that he agreed to be Donald Trump’s “eyes and ears” during the then-presidential candidate’s campaign for the White House, describing in…
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When Marla Maples was about to give birth to Donald Trump’s fourth child, Tiffany, in 1993, then-New York Daily News gossip columnist Linda Stasi had her editor’s orders: Get in the room to see the baby.Maples objected, but Trump invited Stasi to the hospital, where she walked into the private room after the birth, conducted…
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We all have a huge normalcy bias — that is, the refusal to contemplate an imminent disaster. So it’s hard to get your head around the idea that we may well be facing an unprecedented constitutional crisis come November. But then, none of what’s going on in American politics these days is normal. In Donald Trump’s case,…
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Secret Service Prepares to Guard Trump in Jail: Report Los Angeles Magazinesource
The genesis of the ‘catch and kill’ scheme: Pecker describes key Trump Tower meeting POLITICOsource
Trump hush money trial: Tabloid publisher testifies he helped candidacy Reuterssource
ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeWhen Doug Johnson received a text that his friend of over a decade, Maxwell Azzarello, had died after setting himself on fire in New York City, he didn’t believe it.“I was like, ‘No, you got the wrong person. I don’t know anybody that would…
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Judge Juan Merchan, presiding over the first criminal trial involving a sitting or former president in U.S. history, reserved his decision Tuesday as he weighs whether to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court over alleged gag order violations at his hush money trial. It wasn’t immediately clear when Merchan might issue a decision. Judges…
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“The level of self-awareness here is in the deep negatives,” one commenter wrote.
Trump is still losing significant votes in some GOP primaries despite being the party’s presumptive nominee.
Judge loses patience with Trump lawyer during gag-order hearing Washington Timessource
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is emerging as a key surrogate for President Biden’s reelection campaign for young people and progressives, pushing his climate agenda as a win for those critical voting blocs. Ocasio-Cortez’s surrogacy comes with parameters. She said she supports Biden’s reelection bid and will stand by him during a climate event, but she…
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Republicans in Congress are taking former President Trump’s policy directives with more than a few grains of salt, signaling they view what he says about issues as mainly for dramatic effect on the campaign trail. Congress passed an extension of the warrantless surveillance program, and sent to President Biden a major foreign aid package that…
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A secret pact at Trump Tower helped kill bad stories in 2016 The Washington Postsource
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Day six of Donald Trump's hush-money trial in New York heard damaging testimony from a tabloid publisher.National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified that he helped work to suppress negative stories about Mr Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.The BBC's Nada Tawfik breaks down…
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Former National Enquirer boss breaks his silence on ‘catch and kill’ as lead witness in Trump trial CNNsource