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Salon
Salon
Politics
Tatyana Tandanpolie

Prof: Pecker set up case to "bury Trump"

Ex-American Media Inc. David Pecker spent the week divulging the intricacies of the catch-and-kill deals he made on behalf of Donald Trump and their relationship while on the stand in the former president's New York hush-money trial — and his testimony, legal experts say, could spell the "beginning of the end for Trump" in the case. 

Pecker, who was on the stand for four days this week, described in detail his work with Trump and his former lawyer and "fixer" Michael Cohen to "catch and kill" negative stories about the former president, while publishing negative stories about Trump's political rivals.  

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