David Pecker, a longtime friend of President Donald Trump has been granted immunity by federal investigators. The immunity is related to prosecution of Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen.
The Wall Street Journal, also owned by a longtime Trump friend, Rupert Murdoch, reports that “Pecker met with prosecutors to describe involvement of Cohen, Trump in hush-money deals to women ahead of 2016 election.”
And Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair reports that “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.
The Washington Post earlier this year reported The Enquirer “sent stories about Trump to his attorney Michael Cohen before publication.” It’s also been reported the supermarket tabloid engaged in “catch and kill,” paying for stories then not running them, effectively keeping them out of the news.
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