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| Trump trial live: Hush money was 'pure' election fraud, prosecution says - BBC News | |
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| We're about to hear from the first witness of the trial, David Pecker. | |
| He is the former CEO of American Media Inc, which published the National Enquirer tabloid in the period before the 2016 election. | |
| Prosecutors have claimed that, in August 2015, Pecker met with Trump and his then-personal fixer Michael Cohen at Trump Tower in Manhattan to discuss using the tabloid to suppress negative stories that might damage Trump's presidential run. | |
| The practice - known in media circles as "catch and kill" - involves buying the exclusive rights to stories but never publishing them. | |
| One such instance of this campaign - porn star Stormy Daniels' claim that she had had a sexual encounter with Trump - is what now sits at the heart of this criminal case against the presumptive Republican nominee for 2024. | |
| Pecker was previously subpoenaed in 2018 by federal investigators to provide testimony about Trump's knowledge of the hush money payments he made to Cohen, but it is unclear if he has been compelled to testify in this trial or is doing so voluntarily. | |
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