Roger & Enquirer: smearing Ted & Hillary for Trump?

By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/23/2018 - 6:20pm |

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https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/08/23/trumps-pecker-and-his-rat-fuckers-pervy-ted/

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Published 28 minutes ago: David Pecker, Chief of National Enquirer’s Publisher, Is Said to Get Immunity in Trump Inquiry @ NYTimes.com

Federal prosecutors reached an immunity deal with the tabloid executive David J. Pecker, a key witness in their monthslong investigation into payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Donald J. Trump, according to two people familiar with the investigation.

Mr. Pecker is the chairman of American Media Inc., the nation’s biggest tabloid news publisher, which was involved in the payments, which prosecutors have identified as illegal contributions made in violation of campaign finance law.

As prosecutors in New York built a case against Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s longtime lawyer, that resulted in a guilty plea on Tuesday, Mr. Pecker emerged as an important figure. The investigation appears to be continuing, and as a longtime friend and ally of Mr. Trump, Mr. Pecker could have additional information valuable to the prosecutors.

In pleading guilty to campaign finance violations, Mr. Cohen said Mr. Trump directed him to arrange the hush money payments to protect Mr. Trump from embarrassing stories during the campaign. The cooperation of Mr. Pecker is another potential blow to the president from a former loyalist [....]

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/23/2018 - 9:40pm

Interesting how much money changed hands to smear Hillary and inflate Trump.

https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/08/trump-got-by-with-little-help-fr...

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/23/2018 - 9:55pm

I just had Rachel Maddow's show on in the background. A short while ago she showed some covers of the National Enquirer that smeared Hillary during the late stages of the campaign.Everything from Baba Yaga to Medusa, as you painted it the other day. But the one that was staring at all grocery shoppers the day before the election was most striking, among other things, it screamed that whe was a racist and I could truly see it influencing a few votes in the 'hood in my hometown of Milwaukee.

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/23/2018 - 10:04pm

Another "FLIPPER"! There's got to be an appropriate quote from The Godfather but I can't think of it. Or the Bible, for that matter.

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/23/2018 - 10:08pm

mighty sophisticado for The Onion this afternoon:

‘En Passant,’ Whispers Mueller As He Knocks Another Pawn Off Chessboard In Shadowy, Dimly Lit Office https://t.co/mHCqnxrHNC pic.twitter.com/CMxZKtSDOD
— The Onion (@TheOnion) August 23, 2018

by artappraiser on Thu, 08/23/2018 - 10:10pm

guy makes excellent point about timestamp:

It’s 1:22 AM https://t.co/GRKa7N1wLf
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 23, 2018

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 5:40am

So somewhere in EU, not Bulgaria or Romania or Greece or Macedonia or Baltics (7 hours ahead). Italy? Budapest?

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 6:03am

I just think it indicates he was stewing late at night on Weds.

At 8:56 pm he whined this tweet, poor baby:

The only thing that I have done wrong is to win an election that was expected to be won by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. The problem is, they forgot to campaign in numerous states!

then @ 10:28 pm, apparently after watching Tucker Carlsen's show, which did the South African farmers race card baiting, light bulb does off he saw it as a great opportunity to troll everyone away from his problems sent a missive to Pompeo about it and tweeted that he had done so.Oh the humanity, white people being picked on, just like me!

then @ 1:10 am he's tweeting the above, and he is not known to do the Bill Clinton up all night thing

next 3 tweets start 9:44 am Thursday, videos of his interview with Fox, admittedly someone else could have done those for him

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 2:27pm

If Tom Wolfe, say, had written a novel about a crooked NY real-estate developer who became president by covering up his sex scandals in cahoots with a tabloid owner named Pecker, the joke would have seemed silly. It's not that reality is proving stranger than fiction, just dumber
— Matt Seaton (@mattseaton) August 24, 2018

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 11:15pm

Roger & Enquirer: smearing Ted & Hillary for Trump?

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