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 Mark Peterson/AFP via GettyDavid Pecker, much like Arnold Schwarzenegger, will be back.
On Friday, the former National Enquirer boss will take the stand for the fourth time this week in Donald Trump's hush money trial to face a second grilling from the former president's defense team. Pecker, the former CEO of American Media Inc (AMI), has already testified about his efforts to act as Trump's "eyes and ears" ahead of the 2016 presidential election by buying up the exclusive rights to negative stories about the Republican as a way of burying them, a practice known as "catch and kill."
Pecker spoke Thursday about his role in silencing stories from two women who claimed to have had extramarital trysts with Trump (Trump denies the sexual encounters ever took place). One involved AMI paying $150,000 to Playboy model Karen McDougal, who said she'd had an affair with Trump in 2006. The other was a payment of $130,000 that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels—which is at the center of the 34 felony counts of falsifying business records that prosecutors have brought against the former president.
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The House Freedom Caucus stalwart and 2020 election denier is confronting a general election challenge in a central Pennsylvania district that has grown more competitive.
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 China said on Thursday it has no intention of interfering in the U.S. elections, responding to U.S. President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, who has said that Trump had sought Chinese President Xi Jinping's help to win re-election.
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