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Trump trial: Judge will advise on if Trump violated order - BBC News Trump trial live: Pecker says deal to bury Trump stories was 'agreement between friends' - BBC News
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Kayla Epstein Madeline Halpert
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To illustrate how the arrangement that David Pecker describes plays out, prosecutors are now showing a series of headlines which the National Enquirer ran about Trump or his opponents during the 2016 election. Donald Trump has just returned to the courtroom after the brief break.
One says "Boozin Ted Cruz fixin' to lose". Another reads "Bungling surgeon Ben Carson left sponge in patient's brain!" While we wait for David Pecker's testimony to start again, let's check in with an expert to see why the media mogul was chosen as the first witness.
Trump can see these boldfaced headlines on the monitor in front of him. He seemed to look at them quickly before turning his attention back to Pecker on the stand. Former Brooklyn prosecutor Julie Rendelman says having Pecker up first was a smart move.
At Trump's lawyer's request, Justice Merchan instructs the jury that these headlines are only being admitted into evidence to show that they were published, not for the content contained inside them. "He provides the backdrop for how the whole 'catch and kill' scheme came to be, the players involved, and the timing as it related to Trump’s campaign," she tells me.
She adds that Pecker seems to "know Trump quite well" and gives the jury an inside view as to the part Trump played in the decision making for the scheme.
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