by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
100 CENTRE ST COURT, April 26 – On the third day of the Trump trial defense lawyer Emil Bove finally got to cross-examine the National Enquirer's David Pecker.
He got him to admit having provided similar catch and kill services for Ron Perlman of Revlon, and Rahn Emanuel after his Obama administration days.
On Tiger Woods, a story was purchased in order to extort Woods into granting an interview. So it goes in the world of checkbook journalism.
The day ended with Justice Merchan admonishing Bove for "misleading" the jury about a document he handed up to Pecker. A curative instruction to kick off Day 4 was promised.
But it was replaced with a carefully worded apology to Pecker from Bove - and them more drilling into Pecker's memory, and that his deal with Karen McDougal was a legitimate business deal for 65 articles, and more.
By the midmorning break past 11 am, inconsistency between FBI 302 and Pecker's trial testimony was brought out. But for what?
Some wondered, where was this going?
Bove had risen to Chief in the Office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the position he was listed in when admonished for discovery violations in US v. Nejad
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