The following article by Cory Fenwick was posted on the AlterNet.org website August 23, 2018:
It was revealed earlier in the day that the owner of the magazine’s parent company has accepted immunity from prosecutors.
President Donald Trump’s week started out badly, and it’s ending even worse.
On Friday morning, multiple reports found that David Pecker, the CEO of American Media Inc. — which owns the National Enquirer — has been offered an immunity deal by prosecutors. This news looks particularly bad for the president because Pecker and his company were implicated in the guilty plea of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, which was accepted in court on Tuesday. Many speculated that the main reason for Pecker’s testimony would be to obtain testimony against Trump, who was also implicated in Cohen’s plea with regard to campaign finance violations.
And then Friday evening, the Associated Press dropped the following bomb:
The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential election, people familiar with the arrangement told The Associated Press.