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NEW YORK — For a third day on Thursday, former American Media Inc. CEO David Pecker took the stand in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York to testify about the “catch and kill” scheme used to help the then-presidential candidate ahead of the 2016 election.
Court records show Pecker offered to act as the “eyes and ears” of the Trump campaign during an August 2015 meeting with Trump and Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen.
He testified Tuesday about buying the rights to a story being sold by a onetime Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have information about a child Trump had out of wedlock. He also touched on the purchase of a story from former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claims to have had a nearly yearlong affair with Trump years before he ran for president.
Pecker, who as the chief editor of AMI was also the publisher of …
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