Trump attor­ney uncov­ers incon­sis­ten­cy in Pecker’s ‘catch-and-kill’ tes­ti­mo­ny

A defense attor­ney grilled David Peck­er on Fri­day as part of for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump‘s hush mon­ey tri­al in New York and iden­ti­fied an incon­sis­ten­cy in Pecker’s tes­ti­mo­ny regard­ing his prac­tice of bury­ing neg­a­tive sto­ries about pub­lic fig­ures.
Peck­er, the for­mer CEO of tabloid pub­lish­er Amer­i­can Media, Inc., faced ques­tions from Trump attor­ney Emil Bove about Pecker’s con­tra­dic­to­ry rec­ol­lec­tions of whether Trump per­son­al­ly thanked him for sup­press­ing a sto­ry in 2016 ahead of the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, accord­ing to reports from the court­room.
Bove asked Peck­er about an inter­view he gave to the FBI in 2018 dur­ing which Peck­er dis­cussed a process known as “catch-and-kill,” which involved buy­ing rights to sto­ries about high-pro­file peo­ple and then nev­er pub­lish­ing them.
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