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

[konradv]

Triggered, bitch?

Not nearly as much as Trump is.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Lastamender]

Not nearly as much as Trump is.

It just gets him more votes. Keep it up.

 

[CowboyTed]

Yes.
Hillary was the most dislike presidential candidate we’ve seen in decades.
Anything else I can help you with?

with 3m votes more than Trump...

what does that make Trump?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

with 3m votes more than Trump...

what does that make Trump?

A former President.

 

[konradv]

A former President…

…and future jailbird.

 

[Mac1958]

He is a congenital liar, and the rubes don't care.

 

[Nostra]

Post a link....

The relevance is that was where the crime involving Pecker occurred.

What crime was that?

 

[Nostra]

And clearly Judge Merchan is already sick of his and his lawyer's shit. I am curious how he will respond.

Yes, this Merchan clown clearly doesn't believe in the First Amendment.

 

[Nostra]

with 3m votes more than Trump...

what does that make Trump?

President.

 

[Nostra]

He is a congenital liar, and the rubes don't care.

Irony.

 

[Mac1958]

He is a congenital liar, and the rubes don't care.

Irony.

And there ya go.

 

[Nostra]

And there ya go.

Has your Vegetable Messiah had any family members eaten this week, Simp?

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Faun]

What crime was that?

Excessive campaign contribution.

 

[Nostra]

Excessive campaign contribution.

Where has Bragg charged that crime?

 

[Faun]

Where has Bragg charged that crime?

Pecker worked out an immunity deal with prosecutors to avoid charges.

 

[mikegriffith1]

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.

www.nytimes.com

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.

Oh, good heavens. So you want Trump jailed for trying to get a few journalists at a chain of tabloid newspapers to suppress damaging stories???!!! Really???!!! I mean, you must be kidding.

Shall we talk about the damaging stories about Democrats that hundreds, if not thousands, of journalists willingly suppress every year?

 

[Nostra]

Pecker worked out an immunity deal with prosecutors to avoid charges.

So Trump isn’t charged with that?

 

[Faun]

So Trump isn’t charged with that?

He's charged with falsifying business records.