| In Trump Trial
Pecker Turns the Screw Smarting
from Arnold Buy and Kill Florida
Boxes Echo
by
Matthew Russell Lee
100
CENTRE ST
COURT, April
25 - In the
Trump Trial on
Thursday
morning, the
National
Enquirer's
David Pecker
testified to
some
disagreement
with Trump and
Michael
Cohen.
Pecker was
going to
assign the
lifetime
rights to
Karen
McDougal's
story to a
Michael Cohen
company - then
reversed
course.
He said he was
concerned
about campaign
finance laws,
of which he
had become
aware when he
bought and
killed a story
for Arnold
Schwarzenegger
(and then lost
one, he said,
to the LA
Times).
Pecker
said he
declined to
let them go
through boxes
in Florida (an
echo of the
current
Federal case
in Fort
Pierce). And
he declined to
pay Stormy
Daniels,
leaving
Michael Cohen
to do
it.
Throughout,
Trump looked
at Pecker,
whispering
alternately
with his
lawyers Emil
Bove and Todd
Blanche.
The
morning had
begun with the
prosecutors
adding to
their litany
of gag order
violation
complaints
against Trump,
quoting him as
having called
Pecker, that
very morning,
a "nice guy."
Did
he still
believe that
by the lunch
break?
More on
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here
&
Substack here
The
weekend after
the four days
of jury
selection, a
book was
published of
what was said,
and more:
"Trump Trial
Circus, Voir
Dire," by
Matthew
Russell Lee, paperback and
e-book
on Amazon here.
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