Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The Christian Science Monitor

    Trump hush money trial after Week 1: Fees, favors, and a tabloid publisher

    by Peter Grier Apr 26, 2024 5 minutes

    In July 2017 then-President Donald Trump asked National Enquirer publisher David Pecker to a White House dinner to thank him for his help in the 2016 presidential campaign. The event was “for you,” President Trump told the tabloid boss, and he could bring friends and business associates with him to enjoy the Executive Mansion event.

    As Mr. Pecker walked out after a memorable evening his host asked, “how’s Karen doing?” Both men knew “Karen” meant Karen McDougal, a former Playboy centerfold whom the National Enquirer had paid $150,000 to keep quiet about an affair she said she had with Mr. Trump over 10 months in 2006.

    “She’s doing well; she’s quiet. Everything’s good,” Mr. Pecker said.

    Mr. Pecker described this scene as part of his remarkable three days of testimony this week in Mr. Trump’s Manhattan criminal hush money trial. Step by step, he asserted that he

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The Christian Science Monitor

    The Christian Science Monitor4 min readInternational Relations
    Can Ukraine Attack Inside Russia? Kyiv Wants US To Say Yes.
    As Russian forces bear down on the region that is home to Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, Defense Department officials say they are rushing U.S. arms into the country as quickly as they can. It has helped that in the months it awaited congres
    The Christian Science Monitor3 min read
    How The US Floating Pier In Gaza Will Make A Difference In The Growing Hunger Crisis
    The U.S. military says it has finished installing a temporary floating pier off the coast of Israel, a vital step toward delivering desperately needed food into Gaza. The pier will be used as a route into the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip, which doesn’t ha
    The Christian Science Monitor4 min readDiscrimination & Race Relations
    Brown V. Board Of Education At 70: Promise For Students, But Still Work To Be Done
    I was four years into my tenure at a Black-owned newspaper when the city of Augusta, Georgia, voted to lift a decades-old desegregation order back in 2013. I was skeptical of the move because the promise of progressivism in education had not been ful

    Related Books & Audiobooks