SkyBlueFlux
Well-Known Member
Interesting exchange today with Pecker (you can make the jokes yourselves).
Defence cross-examined him, focusing on small details that might paint him as unreliable. Things like when meetings took place, who was present, what was in certain agreements. These are obviously details that it would be quite easy to misremember, but nothing that stuck out as hugely relevant to the core of the story.
They also focused a lot on how securing NDAs and buying stories is an important part of the Enquirer's normal operational model. And how these deals were done in the interests of the business.
Upon re-direct from the prosecution, this seems to have fallen apart.
(Paraphrasing)
"Of the hundreds or thousands of NDAs executed, how many of them were in coordination with a campaign to help a presidential candidate?"
"Only one. This one."
"If this was purely an ordinary business transaction, publishing the McDougal story would have helped your bottom line. So did you kill the story to help candidate Trump?"
"Yes."
So this deal, it would appear, is not at all similar to the other stories they purchase as part of ordinary business.
Defence cross-examined him, focusing on small details that might paint him as unreliable. Things like when meetings took place, who was present, what was in certain agreements. These are obviously details that it would be quite easy to misremember, but nothing that stuck out as hugely relevant to the core of the story.
They also focused a lot on how securing NDAs and buying stories is an important part of the Enquirer's normal operational model. And how these deals were done in the interests of the business.
Upon re-direct from the prosecution, this seems to have fallen apart.
(Paraphrasing)
"Of the hundreds or thousands of NDAs executed, how many of them were in coordination with a campaign to help a presidential candidate?"
"Only one. This one."
"If this was purely an ordinary business transaction, publishing the McDougal story would have helped your bottom line. So did you kill the story to help candidate Trump?"
"Yes."
So this deal, it would appear, is not at all similar to the other stories they purchase as part of ordinary business.
