David Pecker testified Thursday that covering up stories of alleged affairs was to help then-candidate Trump's campaign and not his family.
Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump, said testimony that concluded Thursday's criminal trial proceedings in her uncle's hush money case was a 'bombshell.'Pecker, a longtime friend of the former president and former chairman, president and CEO of American Media Inc. , the parent company of the National Enquirer, took the stand again on Thursday as the only witness thus far in the Manhattan trial.
'Pecker told the jury yesterday that coverup efforts he assisted in were designed to protect the then-Republican candidate's 2016 campaign rather than his family, according to The Washington Post.The Post also reported that in his second day of testimony, Pecker said that he didn't think Trump and Cohen were trying to keep the news stories involving Daniels and McDougal out of the public domain to protect wife Melania Trump, daughter Ivanka or any other relatives.
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