National Enquirer CEO David Pecker strikes immunity deal, reports surface of safe full of Trump secrets.

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National Enquirer CEO David Pecker strikes immunity deal, reports surface of safe full of Trump secrets.

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Man, this has been a really shitty week for Trumpolini: :D :D :D

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WASHINGTON - The National Enquirer kept 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.

The detail came as several media outlets reported on Thursday that federal prosecutors had granted immunity to National Enquirer chief David Pecker, potentially laying bare his efforts to protect his longtime friend Trump.
What was that quote Comey tweeted a while back? Ah yes:
But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Edit: Source was Washington Post, but the link won't work no matter how many time I check it. Each time I go to the page the link appears to be different, as well. I've deleted the link, and will try and provide another source (its all over the news though).
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"I know its easy to be defeatist here because nothing has seemingly reigned Trump in so far. But I will say this: every asshole succeeds until finally, they don't. Again, 18 months before he resigned, Nixon had a sky-high approval rating of 67%. Harvey Weinstein was winning Oscars until one day, he definitely wasn't."-John Oliver

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Re: National Enquirer CEO David Pecker strikes immunity deal, reports surface of safe full of Trump secrets.

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Isn't the National Enquirer one of those gossip rags that were doing fake news before it was cool, but nobody cared because they didn't bother pretending not to make it all up as they went along?
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Um... yeah. Except the Enquirer was always a mix of true and made-up and part of the fun of reading it was trying to figure out which was which.
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What matters more is that in recent years it's been explicitly partisan, publishing absurd shit about Obama and Hillary Clinton in particular. I don't *think* it stooped to the level of endorsing the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, but it probably wasn't far off. And of course it supports Trump to the hilt, so that was a bit of advertising for him-- "Hillary is Evil, Trump is Awesome" on every supermarket checkout line.
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Its also reportedly bought up the rights to stories that reflect negatively on Trump in order to suppress their publications. So there's probably a lot of dirt Pecker can spill.
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The chief financial officer of the Trump Foundation Allen Weisselberg has now also gotten an immunity deal as well:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/24/longtim ... urces.html

Wow, the rats sure are fleeing the sinking ship.
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