David Pecker, a retired tabloid-publishing executive, made the revelations on Tuesday, as Mr Trump's hush money case continues to rumble on.
A retired tabloid-publishing executive has lifted the veil on how weekly supermarket tabloids routinely pay for stories and did so in an unprecedented manner during the 2016 presidential campaign to protectDavid Pecker, who previously ran the National Enquirer and The Star, made the revelations on Tuesday, as Mr Trump's hush money case continues to rumble on in New York.
"I said I would run or publish positive stories about Mr Trump and publish negative stories about his opponents.
But Mr Pecker and Mr Howard still offered to pay Sajudin $30,000 "to buy the story and take it off the market", Mr Pecker said. Mr Pecker told the jury, if the story had been true, he would have held it until after the election and published it then, because he felt it would be the biggest selling issue of the Enquirer since the death of Elvis Presley.
Again, Mr Pecker called Mr Cohen, who told him her story was "absolutely not true", but agreed Mr Pecker should vet it, so the publisher sent Mr Howard to California to interview Ms McDougal.Former US president Donald Trump.Mr Pecker said anticipated women coming forward with such stories, because Mr Trump had been "well known as the most eligible bachelor and dated the most beautiful women".
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