David Pecker

Marion Curtis by way of AP, File.

Former tabloid writer David Pecker testified Thursday that he consulted with top Trump White House officers when identifying whether to increase the hush cash contract with former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal.

Pecker testified that he offered McDougal a two-year $150,000 contract in 2016 from AMI, the mother or father firm of the Nationwide Enquirer, to help “restart her profession.” In change for her silence on an alleged affair with Donald Trump, McDougal would get to jot down articles for AMI’s magazines and appear as a purple carpet experience anchor for Radar Journal.

MSNBC’s Vaughn Hillyard stated on a conversation concerning the contract that Pecker had with Trump in 2018.

Karen McDougal did a take a seat-down interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. After that interview aired, Donald Trump, David Pecker is testifying to, angrily known as up David Pecker about how this happened, because he thought that AMI had an agreement with Karen McDougal for her no longer as a way to share her story anywhere outside of the National Enquirer and its other entities.

And that’s when David Pecker had knowledgeable him that, seem to be, a few months ago we had conversations about Karen McDougal’s contract that at first it was once just six months, and here was talk that integrated even Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — because this used to be all the way through the White House years — about whether to extend Karen McDougal’s contract. And Trump at one point, David Pecker reminded him, Donald Trump, in accordance Pecker informed him, “It’s your online business.” And at that point, he lets the contract run out. So, what did Karen McDougal do? She went and did a sit-down interview with Anderson Cooper.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins tweeted Thursday, “Umm. David Pecker testifies that he had a joint name with Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — taxpayer funded WH officials, at the time — about whether Karen McDougal’s contract must be prolonged. ‘Both of them mentioned that they notion it used to be a good idea,’ Pecker said.”

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 25, 2024

At the time, Hope Hicks served as White House director of strategic communications. Huckabee Sanders used to be appearing press secretary, and is at present the Governor of Arkansas.

Trump has denied having an affair with McDougal. Prosecutors said in court filings that testimony in regards to the attempt to pay off McDougal “would assist set up a sample of funds.”

Trump is being tried on 34 criminal counts of industry fraud for allegedly protecting up a $130,000 fee to adult actress Stormy Daniels for her silence over an alleged affair. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.

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