Despite that, #Trump often made his displeasure known, #Pecker testified, either through #MichaelCohen or direct calls. Pecker described Trump as “very angry” & “very aggravated.”
Pecker said, “I felt that Donald Trump was my mentor,” Pecker said, adding, “I still consider him a friend.”
Trump’s lawyers, led by Emil Bove, started their #CrossExamination trying to show that such deals were “standard operating procedure” in the supermarket #tabloid business.
"Even by National Enquirer standards, testimony by its former publisher David Pecker at Donald Trump’s hush money trial this week has revealed an astonishing level of corruption at America’s best-known tabloid and may one day be seen as the moment it effectively died."
AP reports on the surprising revelations from the Trump trial this week: https://flip.it/.f4qny
One of #Trump's hallmarks, even before he became president, was his tendency to treat everyone other than himself as not just beneath him [#narcissist] but unworthy of distinction & therefore equal in their subservience.
Meaning, he did not differentiate between the Director of the #FBI & the head of a supermarket #tabloid. In his mind they were just people who he thought owed him.
Prosecutors in Trump’s #criminal trial say he has violated a #GagOrder barring him from attacking #witnesses, #jurors & others close to the case. Testimony is set to resume later Tuesday morning.
#Pecker repeated that "writing positive stories about Trump & covering the election, & writing negative stories about his opponents" helped them both, increasing #tabloid newsstand sales while benefitting the #TrumpCampaign.
★ Importantly, #Steinglass asked him to clarify that suppressing negative news about #Trump only benefitted the candidate, not the tabloid. Pecker agreed.
It's not like we lack scandals to report on if that's your tabloid crack.
Seems a bit disingenuous, pushing "Red Wave" narratives for years without explaining why all the polling is wrong while Republicans attack civil rights, womens rights and immigrants.
The Lilli doll, created by the Bild tabloid, went from a spur-of-the-moment cartoon to a gag gift for adults in Germany before being seen as an inspiration for young women in the US.