Nationa Enquirer’s Pecker cuts deal with the Feds, Pecker slaps Trump? Holy CHIT.

Pecker slapping to come.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018...-michael-cohen

“HOLY SHIT, I THOUGHT PECKER WOULD BE THE LAST ONE TO TURN”: TRUMP’S NATIONAL ENQUIRER ALLIES ARE THE LATEST TO DEFECT
David Pecker and Dylan Howard corroborated Michael Cohen’s account implicating the president in a federal crime. And Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, says there are more revelations to come.

BY GABRIEL SHERMAN
AUGUST 23, 2018 11:30 AM

As Robert Mueller’s siege closes in on Donald Trump, the president has been left to wonder which of his staff and closest allies will, after all, stay loyal. On Tuesday, Michael Cohen completed his operatic turn against his former boss when he stood in federal court and pleaded guilty to eight felonies that included making hush-money payments at Trump’s direction to women Trump allegedly had sex with. The admission effectively made Trump an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal crime.

Cohen’s stunning admission came just days after The New York Times reported that White House counsel Don McGahn provided 30 hours of testimony to Mueller’s investigators. McGahn’s extensive cooperation with Mueller rattled the West Wing to the core at a time when aides were struggling to contain the fallout from former Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault Newman’s scathing White House memoir.

And now Trump’s most powerful media ally next to Fox News has broken with him. According to two sources briefed on the Cohen investigation, prosecutors granted immunity to David Pecker, chairman of The National Enquirer publisher, American Media Inc., and A.M.I.’s chief content officer, Dylan Howard, so they would describe Trump’s involvement in Cohen’s payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal during the 2016 campaign. The Wall Street Journal first reported Pecker’s cooperation on Wednesday night. (Pecker and Howard did not respond to multiple requests for comment. A spokesperson for the Southern District of New York declined to comment.)

Pecker’s apparent decision to corroborate Cohen’s account, and implicate Trump in a federal crime, is another vivid example of how isolated Trump is becoming as the walls close in and his former friends look for ways out. “Holy shit, I thought Pecker would be the last one to turn,” a Trump friend told me when I brought up the news. Trump and Pecker have been close for years. According to the Trump friend, Pecker regularly flew on Trump’s plane from New York to Florida. In July 2013, Trump tweeted that Pecker should become C.E.O. of Time magazine. “He’d make it exciting and win awards!”

During the 2016 campaign, Pecker provided invaluable media support to Trump by regularly attacking his Republican rivals and Hillary Clinton. At times, it seemed like the Enquirer operated as a de-facto arm of the campaign. In October 2015, I reported that Trump aides were a source for an Enquirer article exposing Ben Carson’s malpractice lawsuits (“Bungling Surgeon Ben Carson Left Sponge in Patient’s Brain!”). Pecker denied it at the time. In June, The Washington Post reported that the Enquirer routinely sent stories to Trump to review prior to publication. (The Enquirer denied that as well.) During the transition, rumors circulated that Trump was considering Pecker for a prime ambassadorship. Last summer, Pecker reportedly brought an adviser to Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman to meet Trump in the Oval Office to help him expand A.M.I.’s business.

But that was before federal prosecutors investigating Cohen subpoenaed A.M.I. Pecker’s friendship with Trump now seems to be over. According to a source close to A.M.I., Pecker and Trump haven’t spoken in roughly eight months. Howard remains particularly angry at Trump, two people close to Howard told me. “There is no love lost,” one person familiar with Howard’s thinking said. Another person said Howard “hates Trump” and feels “used and abused by him.”

It’s likely that more Trump relationships will be stress-tested in the weeks to come as Trump’s legal peril escalates. Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, has given a series of cable-news interviews intimating that Cohen has valuable and damaging information on Trump to share with Mueller—including the claim that Trump had foreknowledge of Russia’s hacking of Clinton’s e-mails. One source close to Cohen told me Cohen wants to tell Mueller that Trump discussed the release of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s e-mails during the weekend when the Access Hollywood "grab ’em by the pussy” tape dominated the news cycle.

Trump, meanwhile, is struggling to develop a strategy to push back on the damaging headlines. He largely avoided the topic of Cohen and Paul Manafort during his relatively subdued rally on Tuesday night in West Virginia. On Wednesday, he gave a meandering interview to Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt, in which he suggested the stock market might crash were he to be impeached. One source close to the White House said Trump is considering announcing he’s revoked additional security clearances to create a new story line. The source added that Trump is even considering taking clearances from former members of his administration, including former national security adviser H.R. McMaster and secretary of state Rex Tillerson.

Anybody with an ounce of scruples or common sinse will turn on the trump titanic as he goes down. That leaves out Fox News lol

Anybody with an ounce of scruples or common sense can see Vanity Fair epitomizes lib-retard hyperbole and hysteria.

Well ok then. Let me add...and anybody with an actual LIFE....that has a fkn clue lol. Hope you twit heads can swim with your big guns...that's a big lol

Well ok then. Let me add...and anybody with an actual LIFE....that has a fkn clue lol. Hope you twit heads can swim with your big guns...that's a big lol Originally Posted by Tsmokies

Here's a "fkn clue" for ya: "On May 31, 2012, John Edwards was found not guilty on Count 3, illegal use of campaign funding."

OK. So did this happen today, IBH?

Or are you denying that too?

OK. So did this happen today, IBH?

Or are you denying that too? Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Are you denying the one and only precedent case?

OK. So did this happen today, IBH?

Or are you denying that too? Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

"those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it"

if you don't seem to think John Edwards's issues aren't relevant today, you might be wrong!

http://thehill.com/opinion/white-hou...o-set-up-trump

"Note that none of the donors in the 2012 John Edwards case faced any legal issues and the Federal Election Commission ruled their payments were not campaign contributions that had to be reported, both facts that prosecutors tried to suppress at trial."

still relevant .. today.

How many people has Pecker slandered and got himself sued?

Lol...there is a HUGE difference between Edwards and trump still clueless.

Keep on diverting though. It's still fun to read the clueless and his supporters

Are you denying the one and only precedent case? Originally Posted by I B Hankering

He’s probably denying this also:

https://www.politico.com/story/2013/...-375000-085784

But he thinks there’s a pee tape.

Lol...there is a HUGE difference between Edwards and trump still clueless.

Keep on diverting though. It's still fun to read the clueless and his supporters Originally Posted by Tsmokies

is that your legal expert opinion or just your opinion?

still clueless. Originally Posted by Tsmokies

Yeah. You are. The only difference is that Trump is, in this instance, clearly not in violation of campaign finance laws, and the Edwards case is the precedent establishing that fact.

He’s probably denying this also:

https://www.politico.com/story/2013/...-375000-085784

But he thinks there’s a pee tape. Originally Posted by bambino

+1

Is pecker a Jewish name?

Maybe Rider will believe another Clinton cronie:


http://thehill.com/opinion/white-hou...t-up-trump?amp