Alex Seitz-Wald is a senior politics reporter for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker’s testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money trial this week revealed the underhanded tactics his publication used to defend the former president, flagrantly violating not only mainstream journalism ethics rules, but even the more lurid standards typical of tabloids like his.
The Edwards scoop led the Pulitzer Prize Board to reverse an earlier policy and announce in 2010 that the Enquirer was eligible for an Investigative Reporting award. It did not win. The Enquirer, former employees and observers say, was an equal opportunity gossip — eager to break news on any and all famous or powerful people. Trump seemed like an ideal target for the kind of salacious scoops the publication trafficked.
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