In 2016, the tabloid pumped up Donald Trump’s reputation while pumping out invented stories about rival Hillary Clinton.
has revealed an astonishing level of corruption at America’s best-known tabloid and may one day be seen as the moment it effectively died.“It just has zero credibility,” said Lachlan Cartwright, executive editor of thefrom 2014 to 2017. “Whatever sort of credibility it had was totally damaged by what happened in court this week.
paid for the story of Gigi Goyette, an actress who claimed she had an affair with Arnold Schwarzenegger, dangling the prospect of a potential book and movie. Then it kept silent as Schwarzenegger, who denied the affair, ran for California governor. The arrangement became known as “catch and kill”.
Former president Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court in New York.editor, when he saw them at his neighbourhood supermarket in Florida. “That is so foreign to anybody who worked at theCartwright, lured to a job at the, with a promise to break stories like the Edwards scandal, instead found that material about one of the most colourful, compromised politicians in recent history was off limits.
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