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NEW YORK — Former American Media Inc. CEO David Pecker returned to the witness stand Tuesday to testify in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York.
Trump is accused of illegally covering up hush money payments made to silence allegations of marital infidelity as he ran for president in 2016. He has denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.
On the stand Tuesday, Pecker testified about the “catch and kill” scheme that he, Trump and former Trump fixer Michael Cohen hatched to keep negative coverage of Trump out of the news in the run up to the 2016 presidential election.
He said that he called Cohen after learning about a Trump Tower doorman, Dino Sajudin, who claimed to have information about Trump having fathered a child out of wedlock, CNN reported. He learned about the story in 2015 after telling Trump and …
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