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| Trump hush money trial live: David Pecker details learning of Stormy Daniels - BBC News | |
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| Kayla Epstein | |
| Reporting from court | |
| Pecker testifies that in late October 2016 - just ahead of the US presidential election - Michael Cohen attempted to convince the tabloid publisher to buy Stormy Daniels' story that she had a sexual encounter with Trump. | |
| (Trump has denied the story.) | |
| But Pecker says he was spooked by his experience with the Karen McDougal payout, and he refused to involve himself with Trump in another hush-money payment. | |
| Still, Pecker says he felt the adult film star's allegations could be damaging to the presidential candidate. It would have immediately followed the Access Hollywood tape, and the controversy which almost torpedoed Trump's campaign. | |
| In a contentious phone call, Pecker says he urged Cohen to buy the story to keep it from getting published. | |
| Turning the tables on their previous calls, he says he told Cohen "the boss" would be angry if he didn't. | |
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