even outright fabricating negative stories about Trump’s opponents
Did this fucker just testify in court that he committed libel?
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Probably past the statute of limitations.
He was granted immunity in exchange for his testimony. That’s why he’s bearing it all. He admitted to a lot of illegal activity committed on behalf of Trump. His testimony is a hell of a read.
I doubt they can grant immunity against civil action. Maybe the legal consequences, or they'll cover any libel damages.
Good point.
It’s so funny that the man who pushed the “fake news” narrative was in bed with the National Enquirer — a publication that’s literally the definition of fake news
Every accusation is an admission of guilt with this shit bag.
Erm, we all knew this. We said it time and time again. Now we are endlessly confirming what we knew while the GOP sit back let's the infighting continue.
This election is not being fought through the candidates. It's all about making the dems turn on themselves. Everyone refuses to wise up and instead gets more entrench.
Where are all the repubs? Where is the_donald?
I imagine they sit behind the scenes feeding red meat about Palestine and now the rest of us are just along for the ride.
Yes, NBC. It just revealed it for the first time this week.
If you don't count the time David Pecker just admitted the whole thing in 2018.
THANK YOU. I thought I was going crazy hearing this all again, with every news story acting like it was unheard of
This has been going on since Confidential magazine in the 1950s. It’s not right, but it’s nothing new.
What do you know, it was projection AGAIN
Some worry that mainstream outlets will be collateral damage too, even though mainstream outlets would never tolerate even a fraction of the kind of behavior Pecker described. Trump and his allies have falsely accused mainstream news outlets of doing exactly what Pecker admitted he did for Trump, and Trump’s lawyers in court argued — inaccurately — that Pecker described standard journalism practices.
They project because people expect others in a similar position to have similar ethics and values, it's also why on the other side of the spectrum they're always pardoning those who wronged them, they can't comprehend that it's possible to just be that scummy.
If someone is reading the National Enquirer and thinks it's actual news, they are already an idiot and nothing revealed in this trial is going to smarten them up.
In the 80s, the National Enquirer had a 'seance' to ask the ghost of Marilyn Monroe if someone had murdered her and who the murderer was. They then reported this as if it wad an actual source and named Bobby Kennedy the killer. It's not like this is a real news source in any way, and it never has been.
That's not the issue. The issue is that they were buying peoples' silence.
Sounds like this Pecker needs to be tried for election interference himself.
Pecker by name eh?