David Pecker, a retired tabloid-publishing executive, made the revelations on Thursday, as Mr Trump's hush money case continues to rumble on.
Over the course of three days, a Manhattan jury has heard a detailed expose of secret fake news collusion to protectThe cover up of hush money payoffs around one of those alleged dalliances, with pornographic movie actress Stormy Daniels, in 2006, is the basis of 34 criminal charges against the former US president.
Mr Pecker, then Chairman & CEO of the tabloid’s parent company, American Media, Inc. . explained his promise to help Mr Trump’s campaign to his editor-in-chief, Dylan Howard, and to prevent leaks from their 700 employees. They bought the doorman’s silence by paying his $30,000 for the exclusive rights to his story, which AMI had no plan to publish, a scheme known as “catch-and-kill.”
But Mr Cohen wanted AMI to buy the story, with Ms McDougal attorney Keith Davidson having claimed ABC had offered her a slot on the TV show Dancing with the Stars, and a Mexican group supposedly bidding to buy it. Mr Pecker and AMI brokered a third such deal in October 2016, when attorney Mr Davidson alerted editor Howard about the central figure in Mr Trump's indictment – Ms Daniels – who was shopping the rights to her story claiming a one-night stand with Trump in Lake Tahoe in 2006.
“I thought you had and we had an agreement with Karen McDougal that she can’t give any interviews or be on any television shows,” Mr Trump said, according to Mr Pecker.
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