CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig mixed it up with a criminal defense attorney who once represented ex-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.
After court adjourned for the day in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial, CNN’s Anderson Cooper hosted a Last Supper-sized panel to discuss the testimony of former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker. Pecker testified that he used his publication to “catch and kill” negative stories about Trump ahead of the 2016 election. The former president is on trial in Manhattan on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to obscure hush money payments meant to conceal extramarital affairs he had before the election.
Arthur Aidala, whom the late Ailes hired to help combat sexual harassment accusations, weighed in. He stated that Trump’s attorneys simply need to show that Trump and Pecker sought to suppress word of the affairs to prevent Trump’s wife Melania Trumpfrom finding out and not because he …