‘Breathtaking and amazing testimony,’ Former President Donald Trump told the press, noting that it ‘was really an incredible, an incredible day.’
Over the course of three days, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker laid out the details and sequence of events of three deals made to “hush” three individuals from leaking negative stories in the leadup to the 2016 presidential election about then-presidential candidate Trump, under direct examination by prosecutors.
Attorney Emil Bove, representing President Trump, argued that Mr. Pecker’s agreement with President Trump was not illegal, pointing to other deals he made with Tiger Woods, Mark Wahlberg, and politician Rahm Emanuel after he left the Obama administration to run for mayor of Chicago.
Mr. Bove also had Mr. Pecker affirm that he did not remember that the 2015 meeting at Trump Tower happened mid-August until prosecutors told him so and questioned Mr. Pecker on several more dates and specifics that the witness could not remember, in an attempt to show that testimony of events so long ago could not be reliable.
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