Key takeaways from fourth day of testimony in Trump’s hush money trial
Al Jazeera
Former National Enquirer publisher faces more grilling from Trump defence team as first full week of testimony wraps up.
The fourth day of testimony in former United States President Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial has concluded, with former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker facing several hours of cross-examination by Trump’s legal team.
Pecker answered more questions on Friday about what he has testified was a “catch-and-kill” scheme to suppress damaging information about Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 US presidential elections.
The former president has been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents in connection to payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican candidate, is accused of mislabelling reimbursements made to his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who paid Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence over an alleged affair. Trump has denied that affair took place.
But prosecutors have said the ex-president’s alleged misdeeds were part of a larger criminal scheme to influence the 2016 vote, which Trump won over Hillary Clinton.
