national enquirer

This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. Now that former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial has started in earnest, it’s thrown a spotlight onto a grimy corner of the media business: pay-to-play tabloid journalism, where editors pluck the juiciest stories from a marketplace of potential scandals. During his … Read more

David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified at Donald Trump’s hush money trial Tuesday about the “catch and kill” agreements between the former president and the tabloid, detailing arrangements involving Trump’s former doorman and an ex-Playboy model. Pecker’s testimony comes a day after prosecutors alleged that Trump greenlighted the catch-and-kill schemes in which … Read more