#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal 1/…Via Klasfeld:Trump entered the courtroom in his usual slow stroll and perturbed disposition. He let out a slight exhale as he reached the defense table before sitting down.Present in the gallery again today: ...
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69/ Press:
Prosecutor Steinglass: Were there any other instances in which a Presidential candidates' fixer coordinated with you on NDA?
Pecker: No.
Steinglass: On Tiger Woods, you suppressed to get an interview. Here, did you support to influence an election?
A: Yes -
70/ Klasfeld:
The defense latched onto this testimony to suggest that AMI's conduct was standard operating procedure, but Steinglass has Pecker point out the differences.
Schwartzenegger benefited AMI's bottom line, and the episode familiarized it with the campaign-finance repercussions.
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71/ Klasfeld:
Steinglass notes that Pecker did not use the phrase "catch and kill," but the prosecutor prompts the witness to explain what he agreed to do about "women selling stories" at that Trump Tower meeting.
Pecker's answer describes the process for quashing the stories.
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72/ Klasfeld (this one precedes the above one, sorry):
Steinglass notes that Pecker was friends with Trump.
Before the Trump Tower meeting in August 2015, AMI did not institutionally attack Trump's political rivals, and Pecker never acted as his "eyes and ears."
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73/ Press:
Steinglass: What was your understanding of the part of the agreement that involved $?
Pecker: It was my understanding that, like with Mr. Schwarzenegger years before, I would be on the lookout for stories for sale. Here, I'd tell Michael Cohen
Steinglass: How would you describe the overlap between your tabloid readership and Trump's base?
Pecker: Our research found that the audience of celeb magazines loved to read positive stories about Trump. Also negative stories about opponents -
74/ Press:
Steinglass: Would a story about a former Playboy model having a year-long sexual relation with a President candidate who was married, would that have sold magazines?
Pecker: Uh, yes.
Steinglass: It would have been National Enquirer gold, right? -
75/ Lisa Rubin:
The Trump trial just broke for lunch, but the last thing elicited was a great moment for the prosecution: that despite the Enquirer's benefiting from positive stories about Trump, it was against its interest to bury McDougal's story, which was "Enquirer gold."
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Based on one witness the guy seems like toast.
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@nlpbot
NFL this guy seems like the key witness.I wonder what other witnesses are lined up. Seems like the case is built around Pecker, and other witnesses would likely be Expert Witnesses to back up that what Pecker did was illegal.
It's also really interesting that Pecker, even as he's absolutely demolishing Trump's defense with his testimony, still looks up to trump, wants trump to like him, trying to elicit a smile from trump.
Parasocial relationship.
@GottaLaff