The National Enquirer did a lot of dirty work for Donald Trump in 2016. It was like a weekly paid advertisement for his campaign, available at every checkout line in America.
Now, feds have granted immunity to the tabloid’s CEO, David Pecker, in their probe into Michael Cohen, who admitted conniving with Pecker to cover up Trump’s alleged affair with a Playboy model.
Pecker met with prosecutors to describe his involvement with Cohen and Trump in arranging hush-money deals to centerfold Karen McDougal and porn queen Stormy Daniels ahead of 2016 election.
Both women say they had affairs with Trump in 2006 shortly after his third wife, Melania, gave birth to their only child.
Pecker is a longtime friend of Cohen and Trump, and paid McDougal $150,000 for the rights to her story but never published it, a ploy known as “catch and kill” used to bury damaging news.
But that didn’t stop Pecker from attacking Hillary Clinton almost on a weekly basis. One headline suggested she had only 6 months to live. That nonsense was published over two years ago.
While Clinton won the popular vote, she lost the electoral vote by about 77,000 combined votes in three states: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. One could argue the weekly magazine covers could have had an affect in such a close election.
The National Enquirer pays for shelf space in some of the top grocery and retail stores in America. None have answered whether they will refuse placing the tainted tabloid in prominent locations, despite the admission that it is a pro-Trump publication.