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Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Friday, April 26, 2024. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

New York prosecutors to dig into bank records in second week of Trump trial

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump, left, watches as David Pecker answers questions on the witness stand, far right, from Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steingless, in Manhattan criminal court, April 23, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP) ** FILE **

National Enquirer exec told Trump’s lawyer to buy Stormy Daniels story

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Michael Cohen leaves a lower Manhattan building after meeting with prosecutors, March 10, 2023, in New York. A federal judge has suggested Michael Cohen has committed perjury under oath, giving fresh support to former President Donald Trump's claims that his onetime personal lawyer and star witness at his upcoming criminal trial in New York is an untrustworthy liar. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Prosecutors highlight Michael Cohen’s role in Trump’s ‘16 campaign

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Friday, April 26, 2024. (Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump defense: National Enquirer’s moves in 2016 were good business, not a scheme

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump, left, watches as David Pecker answers questions on the witness stand, far right, from Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steingless, in Manhattan criminal court, April 23, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP) ** FILE **

Tabloid exec David Pecker dishes in Trump trial about Karen McDougal, Stormy Daniels payoffs

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Thursday, April 25, 2024.(Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

Prosecutors in Trump trial link National Enquirer payoff scheme to ‘the boss’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

David Pecker, then-chairman and CEO of American Media, speaks at an event, Jan. 31, 2014, in New York. (Marion Curtis via AP, File)

8 years after the National Enquirer’s deal with Donald Trump, the iconic tabloid is limping badly

By David Bauder - Associated Press

Former president Donald Trump waits for the start of proceedings in Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in New York. Before testimony resumes Tuesday, the judge will hold a hearing on prosecutors' request to sanction and fine Trump over social media posts they say violate a gag order prohibiting him from attacking key witnesses. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

Former Enquirer chief: Trump and I had secret deal to protect 2016 campaign

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former president Donald Trump, center, awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

The Latest | Lawyers in Trump hush money case paint competing portraits of him in opening statements

Associated Press

David Pecker, Chairman and CEO of American Media, addresses those attending the Shape & Men's Fitness Super Bowl Party in New York, on Jan. 31, 2014. The former tabloid executive said Monday he had "final say" over stories that ran in his marquee National Enquirer magazine and other publications, as prosecutors laid the groundwork to claim former President Donald Trump engaged in payoff tactics before the 2016 election and concealed them in ways that broke the law. (Marion Curtis via AP, File)

Former National Enquirer exec David Pecker is first to take the stand in Trump trial

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - This combination of file photo shows, from left, President Donald Trump, attorney Michael Cohen and adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Search warrants unsealed Thursday, July 18, 2019, shed new light on the president's role as his campaign scrambled to respond to media inquiries about hush money paid to two women who said they had affairs with him. The investigation involved payments Cohen helped orchestrate to Daniels and Playboy centerfold Karen McDougal. (AP Photo/File)

Records detail frenetic effort to bury stories about Trump

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2014 photo, David Pecker, Chairman and CEO of American Media, addresses those attending the Shape & Men's Fitness Super Bowl Party in New York. An attorney for the head of the National Enquirer’s parent company says the tabloid didn’t commit extortion or blackmail by threatening to publish Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ explicit photos. Elkan Abramowitz represents American Media Inc. CEO David Pecker. He defended the tabloid’s practice as a “negotiation” in an interview Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019, with ABC News. (Marion Curtis via AP, File)

David Pecker lawyer denies Jeff Bezos extortion claims, says ‘reliable source’ provided affair story

By Michael Balsamo - Associated Press

In this Jan. 31, 2014, photo, David Pecker, Chairman and CEO of American Media, addresses those attending the Shape &amp; Men's Fitness Super Bowl Party in New York. An attorney for the head of the National Enquirer’s parent company says the tabloid didn’t commit extortion or blackmail by threatening to publish Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ explicit photos. Elkan Abramowitz represents American Media Inc. CEO David Pecker. He defended the tabloid’s practice as a “negotiation” in an interview Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019, with ABC News. (Marion Curtis via AP) **FILE**

Tabloid CEO’s lawyer denies Enquirer tried to extort Bezos

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

FILE - This July 12, 2017, file photo shows the cover of an issue of the National Enquirer featuring President Donald Trump at a store in New York. Confidential documents obtained by The Associated Press show that the National Enquirer's circulation declined even as it published stories attacking Trump's political foes and, prosecutors claim, helped suppress stories about his alleged sexual affairs. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Trump-friendly tabloid sees a decline in circulation

By JEFF HORWITZ - Associated Press

Tabloid that kept Trump secrets faces losses, legal trouble

By JEFF HORWITZ - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable on the &quot;Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act&quot; in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP: National Enquirer had safe with damaging Trump stories

By JEFF HORWITZ - Associated Press

In this Jan. 31, 2014 photo, David Pecker, Chairman and CEO of American Media, addresses those attending the Shape & Men's Fitness Super Bowl Party in New York. The Aug. 21, 2018 plea deal reached by Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen has laid bare a relationship between the president and Pecker, whose company publishes the National Enquirer. Besides detailing tabloid's involvement in payoffs to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal to keep quiet about alleged affairs with Trump, court papers showed how David Pecker, a longtime friend of the president, offered to help Trump stave off negative stories during the 2016 campaign. (Marion Curtis via AP)

National Enquirer kept damaging Donald Trump documents, stories in safe

By Jeff Horwitz - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 31, 2014 photo, David Pecker, Chairman and CEO of American Media, poses with his wife, Karen Pecker, at the Shape &amp; Men's Fitness Super Bowl Party in New York. The Aug. 21, 2018 plea deal reached by Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen has laid bare a relationship between the president and Pecker, whose company publishes the National Enquirer. Besides detailing tabloid's involvement in payoffs to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal to keep quiet about alleged affairs with Trump, court papers showed how David Pecker, a longtime friend of the president, offered to help Trump stave off negative stories during the 2016 campaign. (AP Photo/Marion Curtis)

AP: National Enquirer hid damaging Trump stories in a safe

By JEFF HORWITZ - Associated Press