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

[konradv]

Yes. And a solid 70% were legal.

Cites?

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Psycho Trump tried to supress the E. Jean Carroll story with his threats & it ended up costing him $83 million big ones.

The bastard finally got some Karma.

How many years did she wait to bring it to light????

How many years did the victims of Weinstein's crimes wait?

How many years did the victims of Trump's friend Jeffrey wait?

Are you defending those two men too? Your so-called principles are on deck here.

Post #82 LAUGHatLEFTISTS
You live in a fantasy world. Stay off the leftist kook sites.

You really need to keep up.

 

[Meister]

You really need to keep up.

And you would buy the Brooklyn Bridge if somebody offered it up to you.
I question everything and use common sense, You lack common sense.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

And you would buy the Brooklyn Bridge if somebody offered it up to you.
I question everything and use common sense, You lack common sense.

Did you ever work up the guts to say what you mean?

"Since she didn't report it at the time, it's a lie."

Go on, sack up.

 

[Meister]

How many years did the victims of Weinstein's crimes wait?

How many years did the victims of Trump's friend Jeffrey wait?

Are you defending those two men too? Your so-called principles are on deck here.

You didn't even bring up Kavanaugh? Why is that, Stretch?
Did your masters tell you to keep away from that yarn?

 

[Meister]

Did you ever work up the guts to say what you mean?

"Since she didn't report it at the time, it's a lie."

Go on, sack up.

Timing is everything, isn't it?
Odd about that.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

And you would buy the Brooklyn Bridge if somebody offered it up to you.
I question everything and use common sense, You lack common sense.

Actually, it's Mr. Trump who was selling Brooklyn Bridges. Remember the Wall funds scam? Remember MExico paying for a huge wall with a huge beautiful door?

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

You didn't even bring up Kavanaugh? Why is that, Stretch?
Did your masters tell you to keep away from that yarn?

Kavanaugh? He's been too busy viewing Long Dong Silver vids with Justice Thomas and his Wife.

 

[rampart]

Nothing more than a hit piece to try and keep the leading candidate from
running against a dementia ridden president.

National Enquire? oh brother...,....

og, brother, no wonder you guys believe such things! you read them in the winn dixie check out line.

 

[Meister]

og, brother, no wonder you guys believe such things! you read them in the winn dixie check out line.

That's your retort????
I didn't use the National Enquirer as a source, nor would I.....but your ilk did.

 

[surada]

His sources were Russian intelligence. DURR



Hillary paid for the Steele dossier.

Do you know who Paul singer is?

 

[surada]

That's your retort????
I didn't use the National Enquirer as a source, nor would I.....but your ilk did.

Maybe the testimony would help you.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/04/22/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/3-catch-and-kill-deals-00153622

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Do you know who Paul singer is?

A guy who didn't help Hillary hire Michael Steele to build his fake, Russian disinfo dossier.

 

[surada]

A guy who didn't help Hillary hire Michael Steele to build his fake, Russian disinfo dossier.

He hired Free beacon and Orbis.. he's a billionaire hedge fund Republican who opposed Trump.

 

[Nostra]

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

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.

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.

web.archive.org

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.

And this breaks what law, specifically?

 

[surada]

Tabloid fodder: Hush-money trial reveals Trump's humiliating truth

If there was a hell, Trump's punishment would be a trial where people tell the truth about him all day

www.salon.com

Trump is such a famous narcissist he literally has a woman who follows him around with a wireless printer to keep him in a steady supply of online praise. Hearing what people outside of the paid shills have to say was, all reports suggest, very upsetting for the former president. He glowered and eventually tried to leave the courtroom so quickly that he had to be told to sit down by the judge.

But, as Monday's trial opening suggested, this trial is set to put Trump's fragile ego through a lengthy battering. It's hard to believe it — considering his ridiculous hair, hideous makeup and comically oversized suits — but by all accounts, Trump seems to actually believe he cuts an impressive figure.

He famously spent decades longing to be included in the ranks of Manhattan's social elite, imagining he had a "classiness" they were simply failing to see. As Elizabeth Spiers of the New York Times wrote last week, "The rich and powerful sometimes invited him to their parties, but behind his back they laughed at his coarse methods and his tacky aesthetic."

 

[surada]

Alas, getting elected president allowed Trump to finally swaddle himself in the pomp that allows him to successfully delude himself into believing he has an air of dignified stature. During his time in the White House, of course, he enjoyed the state dinners and other grand ceremonies meant to imbue the office with solemn authority. Granted, Trump's clownishness just made all of that seem ridiculous to those looking on, but his attempted stern-faced expressions and chin-up pride showed that he really did seem to feel he was finally being taken for the great man he wished himself to be.

 

[Nostra]

Yet she got more votes than Trump!

So?

 

[surada]

Yet she got more votes than Trump!

True. Hillary won the popular vote. Trump claimed 3-5 million illegals voted.

 

[Nostra]

True. Hillary won the popular vote.

So?