Who is David Pecker, a key witness in Trump’s criminal hush-money trial?
The longtime chief executive of AMI, which owns the National Enquirer, has a long history with the ex-president
It is, alas, an urban myth that MSNBC once used an on-screen chyron to say Trump worried about Pecker leaking". But like other famous doctored images, it continues to flourish on the internet, such is the bizarre (and more than slightly mucky) story of David Pecker, Trump and the tabloidization of US politics.
As the longtime chief executive of American Media Inc, Pecker developed a symbiotic relationship between Donald Trump and the National Enquirer, an AMI tabloid specialising in salacious scandal.
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