First Criminal Thursday continues with a key witness from a former president Donald Trump is expected to outline the details of a nondisclosure agreement signed on his behalf with porn star Stormi Daniels.
David PeckerThe former publisher of the National Enquirer is expected to describe his role in the Daniels deal, as well as another hush money deal. Karen McDougal, the former Playboy model claims she had an affair with Trump for months. McDougal claims the relationship began in 2006 Daniels claims to have had sex with Trump denied the claims of both women.
Packer is expected to examine the ludicrous allegations in a New York courtroom, while some of Trump’s lawyers are expected to be in court. Supreme Court His actions were protected by presidential immunity, arguing that a federal election interference suit against him in Washington should be dismissed.
Pecker, 72, was the first witness called by prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s case. In testimony On Tuesday, he recounted his long friendship with Trump that began in the late 1980s and a pivotal meeting with Trump and his then-lawyer. Michael Cohen At Trump Tower in 2015 after Trump launched his presidential campaign. Hope HicksPeker, who said Trump would continue to be White House communications director, “went in and out” of the meeting.
Packer said he agreed to act as Trump’s “eyes and ears” during the meeting, keeping an eye out for any scandalous stories that could damage his candidacy and help get rid of them.
The first time the Enquirer did it, he said, was when it paid one person $30,000 doorman He peddled the story that Trump fathered an illegitimate child, which turned out to be “absolutely 1,000% false.” The deal essentially prevented the gatekeeper from going public with his allegation until after the 2016 election.
Packer said the paper learned in June 2016 about McDougal, “a Playboy model trying to sell a story about her yearlong affair with Donald Trump.” He said he alerted Cohen to his allegations and then received a call from Trump.
Trump said Cohen “told me about Karen” and asked Packer, “What do you think?” he asked. Packer said he offered Trump the story, but Trump said, “I’m not buying any stories.”
“Whenever you do something like that, it always comes out,” Packer quoted Trump as saying.
Pecker told Trump he thought it would be a good idea to “take this story off the market.” “Let me think about it and Michael Cohen will call you in a few days,” Trump replied.
Packer is expected to explain Thursday how the Enquirer later cut McDougal a $150,000 deal to silence him and his role in Cohen paying Daniels $130,000 not to disclose. Prosecutors said the Daniels deal was made in the weeks before Election Day 2016, when the Trump campaign was allegedly “concerned about the disclosures.”Enter HollywoodThe tape included a hot mic moment in 2005 in which Trump, the star of the 2005 film The Lamp, said he could kiss and shake women without their consent because “when you’re a star, they let you do that. You can do anything.”
Trump is impeached 34 numbers falsified case records about the money, prosecutors say, so he was repaying Cohen for hush money. He begged not guilty.