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?
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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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