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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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Reporting from court | Reporting from court |
David Pecker has come off as a truthful, reliable witness. | |
This is someone who said he considered Donald Trump a mentor, had a decades long relationship with him, and even now doesn’t harbour any ill will towards the ex-president. | |
That is presumably why the defence didn’t come out swinging, but chose instead to try to lead him where they wanted. Bove tried to frame the “catch-and-kill” scheme - and even his cooperation with prosecutors - as a business decision. | |
The phrase “standard operating procedure” featured often, as Bove went slowly through agreements, invoices and ledger entries related to Karen McDougal. | |
The defence lawyer also got Pecker to recount that McDougal’s agreement did include real obligations, and that he had told Cohen that it was “bullet proof” after consulting with a campaign attorney. | |
But under cross-examination, prosecutors tried to leave no room for doubt. | |
Pecker reiterated that the true purpose of McDougal’s contract was to acquire the life rights to her story, and that the “catch-and-kill” scheme was to benefit Donald Trump’s campaign. | |
The defence, therefore, didn’t succeed in making a significant dent in the prosecution’s narrative. | |
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