David Pecker testifies Michael Cohen said Trump ‘furious’ over refusal to pay Stormy Daniels – as it happened
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He said she was a 12 out of 10," David Pecker says the former editor in chief of the National Enquirer, Dylan Howard, told him about Karen McDougal after meeting with her.
Pecker says McDougal told Howard she didn't want her story about Trump to be published. He says:
She said she didn't want to be the next Monica Lewinsky ... She wanted to restart her career.
Dylan came to me in early June of 2016 and said that he received a call from one of his major sources, in California, that there's a Playboy model who is trying to sell a story about a relationship that she had with Donald Trump for a year.
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