Tabloid Company’s Admission Shows New Peril for Trump’s Circle
- Pecker met with Cohen, at least one other campaign member
- National Enquirer sought to aid campaign, now is cooperating
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The tabloid publishing company that killed damaging stories about Donald Trump is telling U.S. prosecutors about the plans hatched with members of Trump’s team in the earliest days of the campaign.
At least one unidentified campaign member joined Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in an August 2015 meeting with David Pecker, the publisher of the National Enquirer, to discuss suppressing negative news stories during the election, the U.S. said.