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Kayla Epstein The latest courtroom sketch from artist Jane Rosenberg shows prosecutor Joshua Steinglass (left) and Trump's lawyer Emil Bove (centre) gesture as they argue their cases in court while the former president (right) watches on.
Reporting from court
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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