In an unexpected turn of events, David Pecker, one of the prosecution’s key witnesses, gave testimony at the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump in New York that appears to have seriously hurt the case that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is pursuing.
People were expecting David Pecker, the former CEO of American Media Inc., which owned the scandal-plagued National Enquirer, to give important evidence against Trump. He had to talk about the well-known “catch and kill” scheme, which was a way for the tabloid to buy damaging stories about Trump during the 2016 election and then get rid of them.
But during cross-examination, Pecker’s comments seemed to tear apart the story that the prosecution had worked hard to build. Pecker said in court that Trump wasn’t the one who was most worried about potentially damaging stories because of Trump’s fame and history with women. It was him and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
