Trump's lawyers will grill ex-tabloid publisher as 1st week of hush money trial testimony wraps


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KIFI— By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Defense lawyers in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial are poised to dig into a former tabloid publisher’s accounts of how he worked to protect the Republican’s 2016 presidential campaign. David Pecker will return to the witness

WTOP—Trump’s lawyers try to discredit testimony of prosecution’s first witness in hush money trial. After prosecutors’ lead witness painted a tawdry portrait of “catch and kill” tabloid schemes, defense lawyers in Donald Trump’s hush money trial are poised Friday to dig into an account of the former publisher of the National Enquirer and his efforts to protect Trump from negative stories during the 2016 election.

CNN—Live updates: Testimony in the Trump hush money trial wraps for the week. Ex-tabloid publisher David Pecker and Donald Trump's former assistant Rhona Graff testifed Friday in the hush money trial. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.

WKBN.com—5 takeaways from the second week of Trump’s hush money trial testimony. NEW YORK — Salacious celebrity scandal peppered with foundation-building evidence defined the second week of testimony in former President Trump’s New York criminal trial. Witnesses this week began digging into the minutiae of the Manhattan district attorney’s case, from bank records and non-disclosure agreements to text messages suggesting efforts to keep quiet negative stories about []