David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, returned to the witness box for a fourth day.
Donald Trump’s defence team in his hush money case has sought to undermine the evidence of the prosecution’s lead witness and his account that a tabloid’s practice of helping to bury embarrassing stories about Trump was part of a scheme to aid the Republican’s 2016 campaign.
Mr Pecker has said that he hatched a plan with Trump and then-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in August 2015 for the National Enquirer to help Trump’s presidential campaign. Mr Bove also confronted Mr Pecker with statements he made to federal prosecutors in 2018 that the defence lawyer said were “inconsistent” with the former publisher’s evidence earlier this week.
But according to notes cited by Mr Bove in court, Mr Pecker had previously told federal authorities that Trump did not express any gratitude to him during the meeting.“The FBI notes that someone is writing down here could be wrong,” he said, adding: “I know what the truth is.” In New York – the first of Trump’s four criminal cases to go to trial – the presumptive Republican presidential nominee faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with hush money payments meant to stifle negative stories from surfacing in the final days of the 2016 campaign.Before entering the courtroom on Friday, he told reporters he believes Thursday’s proceedings went “very well” for the defence, adding that “the case should be over”.
He paid that sum on Trump’s behalf to keep adult film actor Stormy Daniels from going public with her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier.
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