David Pecker sure made a lot of campaign contributions

[kpete]

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[lark]

1. Did you notice that drumpf forgot this in his tweet this morning.

He's saying it was just a Michael Cohen decision re payoffs, completely ignoring the David Pecker filing where he also said he helped with these to help the Drumpf campaign. Guess that one didn't happen because drumpfs' lawyers haven't told him how they will fight that charge, or maybe there's no fighting it so it didn't happen (per Faux Snooze??

[kskiska]

2. I noticed how at some point,

after years of seeing this publication while standing in numerous check-out lines at the grocery store, how its content suddenly changed from mostly celebrity gossip to politics once Trump decided to run for president. The covers began featuring trash headlines and bad photos of Hillary Clinton.

[mainer]

3. Back cover Enquirer ad: $50,000

The front page, of course, would be worth a lot, lot more.

That's a minimum of a million dollar campaign contribution.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. and the bastard walks

[Baitball Blogger]

5. This is an amazing revelation. We are now aware how the First Amendment can be weaponized.

Here we go along, thinking that the National Enquirer is just trash journalism, and now we come to find that it was used to introduce information that was damaging to one party, i.e. the Monica Lewinsky issue. And it was also used to withhold information that would have been damaging to another.

This is so strange. If this was the purpose of the National Enquirer, why were they the target of anthrax back in 2001?

[malaise]

6. I hope the Clinton's sue these criminals

That is all

[DURHAM D]

8. I want Mueller or SDNY to investigate them and

charge them with a crime.

[DURHAM D]

7. Try Google images -

Hillary Clinton Adopts Alien Baby

Weekly World News was also owned by Pecker.

[spanone]

9. Looks more & more like a Stolen Election

[Mrs. Overall]

10. Many of these headlines become true if you substitute "Trump" for Hillary:

What Trump's Hiding
Trump Caught in Teen Sex Ring
Trump's Crimes
Trump: Corrupt!
Trump Gains 103 Pounds
Trump Hitman Tells All
Trump Blackmailed FBI to Kill Corruption Probe
Trump: Corrupt! Racist! Criminal!
Trump: World War 3
Trump Going to Jail
Trump and Family Indicted
Trump's Nervous Breakdown

[Cha]

15. You fixed it!

[certainot]

11. like that, but here's more free support - at $1000/hr, 1200 radio stations $5BIL/yr FREE

(x15 hrs/day)

and they're all following limbaugh and hannity, excuses for trump, dissing rubio and bush of immigration, attacks on mueller and swiftboated hillary for 25 years

all free and taken a lot more seriously by more people than pecker's crap

if he paid pecker why wouldn't he also pay limbaugh and hannity?

[Buckeyeblue]

12. I know that libel for a publicly known person is difficult

But does Pecker's admission that he assisted 45's campaign open the door to a Hillary libel Lawsuit? Especially since Pecker used his magazine as the vehicle for the illegal contribution, while continuing to publish the over the top lies about Hillary.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. I can't wait to see the day far in the future....

....where I see a picture of a vibrant, smiling, 95 year-old Hillary Clinton holding up a copy of the Enquirer that reads "Hillary: 6 months to live!".

[George II]

14. If it wasn't so sad this would be hysterical.

[Stuart G]

16. This story is really something...Imagine...a fellow with a name like, "David Pecker"..

Now I am not trying to be rude or disrespectful to David, but if that is his real name, can you imagine what it was like for him in high school and grammar school. Did this fellow change his name to work at that truly great publication... The National Enquirer? I don't really know...