The Notorious “catch and kill" campaign: Turning the National Enquirer into an arm of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign

Now that’s batshit crazy, even for you.
Really? Can you explain how a political novice got just enough votes in just the right places? Sure briefcases of “votes” weren’t dropped off in the middle of the night? The whole things sounds suspiciously like the 2020 charges of fraud. Could they be telling us, “Well, that’s what we did”? :dunno:
 
What I Saw Working at The National Enquirer During Donald Trump’s Rise - By Lachlan Cartwright

Inside the notorious “catch and kill” campaign that now stands at the heart of the former president’s legal trial.

I pulled up the indictment and the statement of facts on my iPhone. At the center of the case is the accusation that Trump took part in a scheme to turn The National Enquirer and its sister publications into an arm of his 2016 presidential campaign. The documents detailed three “hush money” payments made to a series of individuals to guarantee their silence about potentially damaging stories in the months before the election. Because this was done with the goal of helping his election chances, the case implied, these payments amounted to a form of illegal, undisclosed campaign spending. And, Bragg argued, because Trump created paperwork to make the payments seem like regular legal expenses, that amounted to a criminal effort at a coverup. Trump has denied the charges against him.


The documents rattled off a number of seedy stories that would have been right at home in a venerable supermarket tabloid, had they actually been published. The subjects were anonymized but recognizable to anyone who had followed the story of Trump’s entanglement with The Enquirer. His affair with the porn star Stormy Daniels, of course, was the heart of it. There was also Karen McDougal, the Playboy Playmate of the Year in 1998, whose affair with Trump was similarly made to disappear, the payments for the rights to her story made to look like fees for writing a fitness column and appearing on magazine covers. (Trump has denied involvement with both women.) There were others that were lesser known, too, like Dino Sajudin, a former Trump World Tower doorman who claimed that Trump had a love child with one of the building’s employees; the story was never published, and Sajudin was paid $30,000 to keep quiet about it.


To me this is unbelievable. Before Mr. Trump's official entry into presidential politics - he becoming a politician - this kind of story that surfaced years ago, would've killed the career of an aspiring politician. But with Mr. Trump's troll-like campaign (proof/not opinion is his personal/family insults and attacks on a debate stage, breaking of norms, rules...unheard of before 2015), the bizarre became acceptable to small but then growing a segment of the population.

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This is a story that needs telling.
Yes, the usual cultists sprinted in to grab their ankles for Trump.

Then they are all going to other threads to whine that media is in the tank for Biden.
 
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It seems too obvious to mention.
But I will anyway: Read the posts about the books 'Catch & Kill'; and 'She Says'.

It ain't just Lachlan Cartwright.
Duh!
Actually it is about somebody named Lachlin Cartwright's opinion. As an editor of a freaking supermarket tabloid he ain't exactly a book critic.
 
Actually it is about somebody named Lachlin Cartwright's opinion.
I you wanna flutter your pearls over Cartwright.....no problem. You be you.

So, then go to Farrow's book.
Or, the even better book....by Kantor & Twohey.

Come back and contribute in a more informed manner after you have read one or both.
 
I you wanna flutter your pearls over Cartwright.....no problem. You be you.

So, then go to Farrow's book.
Or, the even better book....by Kantor & Twohey.

Come back and contribute in a more informed manner after you have read one or both.
OK I'm open for an explanation about the issue without the B.S. in the original post. What is it all about?
 
By getting more Electoral College votes than the most qualified candidate in history.
Democrats cannot handle being REJECTED by the American people. The prissy stuck up assholes dream of eliminating elections and ruling with an iron fist. Their extreme intolerance and desire to wipe out opposing views. Hence their admiration of totalitarian regimes.

There was a piece this week that spoke to illegals backing away from Democrats because Democrats are doing the same things their corrupt leaders do in the countries they fled. :oops:
 

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