Donald Trump's hush money trial revealed allegations about smearing opponents through the National Enquirer
Donald Trump's hush money trial in Manhattan has unveiled revelations about an alleged agreement by the National Enquirer to publish smear stories about Senator Ted Cruz, his 2016 political opponent.As he was questioned during the trial this week, former Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified that he helped Trump manufacture stories about Cruz and others.
'Thinking about it as I did previously, I said what I would do is I would run or publish positive stories about Mr. Trump and I would publish negative stories about his opponents.'Pecker also told Trump and his attorney Michael Cohen that he would be the 'eyes and ears' for the campaign and if he heard that anything negative about Trump was being shopped around, he would notify Cohen and the attorney would have those stories killed.
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