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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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Nada Tawfik Madeline Halpert
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David Pecker has come off as a truthful, reliable witness. David Pecker is back on the stand and the prosecution's Joshua Steinglass is questioning him again.
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. Before the lunch break, Steinglass said he had about 30 more minutes of questions.
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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