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| Trump hush money trial live: David Pecker details 'catch and kill' schemes - BBC News | Trump hush money trial live: David Pecker details 'catch and kill' schemes - BBC News |
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| After listening to a few minutes of cross-examination, it seems like Trump's attorney Emil Bove is trying to normalise the relationship that David Pecker had with Donald Trump. | |
| Prosecutors have sought to paint the "agreement among friends" that Pecker reached with Trump and Cohen in August 2015 as the hatching of a plan to influence the election. | |
| They have shaped the claim that the trio used the National Enquirer to boost Trump and suppress negative stories about him. | |
| Bove, in his questioning, appears to be aiming to shift that perception. His questions attempt to frame the relationship as the normal course of doing business for a major tabloid publisher with celebrity connections. | |
| Bove asks Pecker about similar arrangements with other male celebrities like movie star-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and golf star Tiger Woods. | |
| In fact, Bove asks Pecker, you didn't even know the phrase "catch-and-kill" before prosecutors told it to you? | |
| Pecker says he did not. | |
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