{"id":2231105,"date":"2024-04-26T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorney-uncovers-inconsistency-in-peckers-catch-and-kill-testimony\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T15:44:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T19:44:35","slug":"trump-attorney-uncovers-inconsistency-in-peckers-catch-and-kill-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorney-uncovers-inconsistency-in-peckers-catch-and-kill-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s lawyer exposes discrepancy in Pecker&#8217;s &#8216;catch-and-kill&#8217; testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-attorney-uncovers-inconsistency-in-peckers-catch-and-kill-testimony%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2231105&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trumps-criminal-hush-money-trial-set-for-march-25\/\" title=\"Trump's hush money trial scheduled for March 25\">hush money trial<\/a> in New York, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-pardon-jon-woods-a-victim-of-process-crimes-like-michael-flynn\/\" title=\"President Trump, Please Pardon Jon Woods, a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn\">defense attorney<\/a> questioned David Pecker about inconsistencies in \u200bhis\u2062 testimony regarding burying \u2063negative stories. Pecker, the ex-CEO of\u200c American \u2064Media, Inc., faced scrutiny by Trump&#8217;s lawyer about conflicting\u200c accounts of\u2063 Trump thanking him for suppressing a story in 2016.\u2062 The trial aims to prove Trump&#8217;s involvement in concealing payments to silence women during the 2016 election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A defense attorney grilled David Pecker on Friday as part of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s hush money trial in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"New York\">New York<\/a> and identified an inconsistency in Pecker\u2019s testimony regarding his practice of burying negative stories about public figures.<\/p>\n<p>Pecker, the former CEO of tabloid publisher American Media, Inc., faced questions from Trump attorney Emil Bove about Pecker\u2019s contradictory recollections of whether Trump personally thanked him for suppressing a story in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2016-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2016<\/a> ahead of the presidential election, according to reports from the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Bove asked Pecker about an interview he gave to the FBI in 2018 during which Pecker discussed a process known as \u201ccatch-and-kill,\u201d which involved buying rights to stories about high-profile people and then never publishing them.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting between Pecker and Trump on Jan. 6, 2017, \u201cTrump did not express any gratitude to Pecker and AMI\u201d for killing a story about Trump, according to the FBI\u2019s notes from the following year, Bove <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-hush-money-trial-04-26-24\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>observed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Donald Trump, far left, and defense attorney Todd Blanche, second from left, listen as defense attorney Emil Bove cross-examines David Pecker on the witness stand, Friday, April 26, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The defense attorney then pointed out how Pecker testified from the witness stand one day earlier with an entirely different account. Pecker had said Thursday that Trump did in fact thank him at the meeting because AMI-owned <em>National Enquirer<\/em> reached a $30,000 deal with a doorman during Trump\u2019s presidential run that prevented the doorman from going public with an unproven allegation that Trump fathered a child out of wedlock.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, charged Trump with concealing payments made to two women in 2016 to silence them after they wanted to come forward about alleged affairs they had with Trump, and prosecutors have sought to prove Trump\u2019s motivation was to influence the 2016 presidential election. <\/p>\n<p>Trump thanking Pecker right after he won the election would bolster prosecutors\u2019 argument that the election drove Trump to participate in Pecker\u2019s catch-and-kill schemes.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bove emphasized during his cross-examination of Pecker how his accounts of the meeting with Trump in 2017 appeared to change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what I testified to yesterday, and I know what I remember,\u201d Pecker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-hush-money-trial-04-26-24\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>said<\/a> as Bove became louder and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/04\/26\/nyregion\/trump-hush-money-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>noted<\/a> that lying under oath is a crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you suggesting the FBI made a mistake here?\u201d Bove asked.<\/p>\n<p>Pecker doubled down on his testimony from the prior day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what the truth is. I can\u2019t state why this is written this way. I know what was said to me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pecker, the first witness in Trump\u2019s trial, appeared on the stand Friday for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gas-prices-soar-to-record-high-for-fourth-consecutive-day\/\" title=\"Gas Prices Soar to Record High for Fourth Consecutive Day\">fourth consecutive day<\/a> as he testified about how he helped Trump in 2016 by publishing positive stories about him while also negotiating two agreements with sources, the doorman and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, on Trump\u2019s behalf to quash their negative stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s attorneys have highlighted how Pecker also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/2980034\/trump-trial-four-takeaways-pecker-witness-stand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helped<\/a> suppress stories about other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-trump-special-counsel-jack-smith-was-involved-in-obama-era-lois-lerner-irs-scandal\/\" title=\"New Trump Special Counsel Jack Smith Was Involved in Obama-Era Lois Lerner IRS Scandal\">high-profile politicians<\/a>, such as former President Barack Obama\u2019s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.<\/p>\n<p>They have also noted how politicians meeting with media organizations is normal and how nondisclosure agreements, such as those that Pecker reached with sources, are legal.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Donald Trump&#8217;s hush money trial in New York, defense attorney Emil Bove scrutinized David Pecker&#8217;s testimony. An inconsistency arose regarding Pecker&#8217;s burying of negative stories about public figures. The former CEO of American Media, Inc., faced questioning during the trial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2231106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24117576171775.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24117576171775.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2231106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}