The Notorious “catch and kill" campaign: Turning the National Enquirer into an arm of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign

[Toddsterpatriot]

Pecker, who certainly can afford competent representation, was no doubt advised by said counsel to cooperate given his level of participation and probable exposure to criminal liability.

Counsel no doubt told him confessing to fake crimes for immunity made sense.

 

[Meister]

Meister ?

Procrustes Stretched ?

 

[Dante]

So now you are pushing Russian propaganda.

Good gawd, you people are pathetic. Stop accusing everyone of suffering from what affects and infects you people.

Top Republican warns pro-Russia messages are echoed ‘on the House floor’​

The latest remarks come after another GOP member said Russian propaganda has ‘infected’ the Republican base​

 

[Dante]

As evidenced by her getting beaten by 2 amateurs.

And you people push as evidence Mr. Trump being beaten by a frail old man with dementia?

 

[Dante]

Procrustes Stretched ?

"Oh my god, am I here all alone?!"

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Counsel no doubt told him confessing to fake crimes for immunity made sense.

That’s what I just said. Funny though that you think his counsel believed his criminal exposure was “fake”. How childish.
These are very real proceedings.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

That’s what I just said. Funny though that you think his counsel believed his criminal exposure was “fake”. How childish.
These are very real proceedings.

This weaponized DOJ was definitely threatening him. Nothing fake about the threat.

The "crime" they were charging him with was fake.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

This weaponized DOJ was definitely threatening him. Nothing fake about the threat.

The "crime" they were charging him with was fake.

Again. How childish.

 

[Lastamender]

Pecker, who certainly can afford competent representation, was no doubt advised by said counsel to cooperate given his level of participation and probable exposure to criminal liability.

What criminal liability? Didn't the NYT, the WP, and other MSM outlets do the same things with Biden? 95% negative press for Trump for 8 fucking years. When is their trial?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Again. How childish.

Weaponizing the DOJ is not childish.

 

[sealybobo]

What I Saw Working at The National Enquirer During Donald Trump’s Rise - By Lachlan Cartwright

Inside the notorious “catch and kill” campaign that now stands at the heart of the former president’s legal trial.

I pulled up the indictment and the statement of facts on my iPhone. At the center of the case is the accusation that Trump took part in a scheme to turn The National Enquirer and its sister publications into an arm of his 2016 presidential campaign. The documents detailed three “hush money” payments made to a series of individuals to guarantee their silence about potentially damaging stories in the months before the election. Because this was done with the goal of helping his election chances, the case implied, these payments amounted to a form of illegal, undisclosed campaign spending. And, Bragg argued, because Trump created paperwork to make the payments seem like regular legal expenses, that amounted to a criminal effort at a coverup. Trump has denied the charges against him.

What I Saw Working at The National Enquirer During Donald Trump’s Rise (Published 2024)

Inside the notorious “catch and kill” campaign that now stands at the heart of the former president’s legal trial.

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The documents rattled off a number of seedy stories that would have been right at home in a venerable supermarket tabloid, had they actually been published. The subjects were anonymized but recognizable to anyone who had followed the story of Trump’s entanglement with The Enquirer. His affair with the porn star Stormy Daniels, of course, was the heart of it. There was also Karen McDougal, the Playboy Playmate of the Year in 1998, whose affair with Trump was similarly made to disappear, the payments for the rights to her story made to look like fees for writing a fitness column and appearing on magazine covers. (Trump has denied involvement with both women.) There were others that were lesser known, too, like Dino Sajudin, a former Trump World Tower doorman who claimed that Trump had a love child with one of the building’s employees; the story was never published, and Sajudin was paid $30,000 to keep quiet about it.

What I Saw Working at The National Enquirer During Donald Trump’s Rise

Inside the notorious “catch and kill” campaign that now stands at the heart of the former president’s legal trial.

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To me this is unbelievable. Before Mr. Trump's official entry into presidential politics - he becoming a politician - this kind of story that surfaced years ago, would've killed the career of an aspiring politician. But with Mr. Trump's troll-like campaign (proof/not opinion is his personal/family insults and attacks on a debate stage, breaking of norms, rules...unheard of before 2015), the bizarre became acceptable to small but then growing a segment of the population.

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This is a story that needs telling.

So how do so many Americans trust this guy? He's the worst! Totally dishonest. A liar. Talks out of both sides of his mouth. Been caught red handed lying about Mexico paying for the wall or that the election was stolen.

How is it they trust or believe a guy who has Fixers? I think it's because most Americans don't understand what a fixer does. The rich and powerful hire fixers to get them out of trouble. Dig up dirt on the woman or child you raped and threaten to go public. Michael Jackson had fixers too.

So Trump has fixers like Michael Cohen, Sidney Powell and Rudy who would cross the line for him. Most lawyers won't. That's the difference between a lawyer and a fixer.

Trump allegedly fathered a child with a Trump Tower maid in the 1980s, Pecker told jurors. Pecker said he reached out to Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen, who told him the story was “absolutely not true” but asked him to look into it regardless.
Pecker eventually agreed to buy rights to the story from the doorman for $30,000. He said Cohen then told him, “The boss will be very pleased,”

American Media Inc., the National Enquirer’s parent company, confirmed earlier that it paid McDougal $150,000 for the story specifically to help protect Trump’s 2016 campaign. Prosecutors alleged that Trump and Cohen planned to create a shell company to reimburse AMI but that it fell through, according to Forbes.

 

[Nostra]

Good gawd, you people are pathetic. Stop accusing everyone of suffering from what affects and infects you people.

Top Republican warns pro-Russia messages are echoed ‘on the House floor’​

The latest remarks come after another GOP member said Russian propaganda has ‘infected’ the Republican base​

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I quoted the OP, Simp.

Have someone explain how the board works.

 

[Nostra]

Has MSDNC ever played the dozens of videos of Tater getting lost onstage, or shaking hands with thin air?

Nope.

LOCK THEM UP!

 

[Dante]

I quoted the OP, Simp.

Have someone explain how the board works.

Yep. Never said you did not. Said you quoted out of context.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

What criminal liability? Didn't the NYT, the WP, and other MSM outlets do the same things with Biden? 95% negative press for Trump for 8 fucking years. When is their trial?

No.
Not the same thing in any way. Obviously.

 

[Lastamender]

No.
Not the same thing in any way. Obviously.

Bullshit it is not. You are obviously stupid.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Weaponizing the DOJ is not childish.

^Believing this is childish.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Bullshit it is not. You are obviously stupid.

Reality is no doubt often stupid to you.

 

[Lastamender]

Reality is no doubt often stupid to you.

Abuse of power is the reality anyone with the smallest of objectivity can see that. Crazed haters cannot, crazed hater.

 

[para bellum]

Holy fuck.

Again, there was no NDA with AMI. The NDA was with Stormy Daniels. She had nothing to do with AMI.

Wrong. AMI purchased the exclusive rights to Daniel's story. That was the NDA. The parties were AMI and Daniels.

Cohen then purchased those rights from AMI through an LLC called "Essential Consultants", and received compensation from Trump.