Trump’s indictment and the return of his biggest concern: ‘the women’
by Martin Pengelly from US news | The Guardian on (#6AM9R)
The former president paid hush money to an adult film star and a Playboy model and faces looming trials over a rape allegation
In August 2015, at Trump Tower in New York, Donald Trump met with Michael Cohen, then his lawyer and fixer, and David Pecker, then chief executive of American Media, owner of the National Enquirer. According to the indictment of the former president unsealed in New York this week, Pecker agreed to help with Trump's campaign for the Republican nomination, looking out for negative stories" about Trump and then alerting Cohen.
It was a catch and kill" deal, a common tabloid practice in which Pecker would buy potentially damaging stories but not put them in print.
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