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| Trump hush money trial live: Defence cross-examines David Pecker - BBC News | Trump hush money trial live: Defence cross-examines David Pecker - BBC News |
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| Kayla Epstein | |
| Reporting from court | Reporting from court |
| We've been asking legal experts to talk about how the trial is proceeding so far. | |
| There has been one surprise, according to John Coffee, a professor at Columbia Law School. | |
| "The new and unexpected development this week has been the enthusiastic and highly cooperative testimony that Mr Pecker has given," he told me via email. | |
| "Because he was a friend of Trump, I had expected more grudging testimony." | |
| But instead, Coffee tells me, Pecker has "strongly endorsed" the prosecution's theory that Trump and his fixer, Michael Cohen, enlisted Pecker to help Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. | |
| Let's not forget, however, that Pecker is testifying under a deferred prosecution agreement, since AMI - the owner of the National Enquirer - has admitted that it committed related felonies. | |
| Pecker's "catch-and-kill" schemes at the National Enquirer tabloid magazine - to boost Trump as the presidential candidate and block negative stories about him - have been the main focus of the first week of testimony. | |
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