Justice Unfolds: Track the former MAGA President’s Criminal Trial with NewsTRAC

Tracking the hush money payments and people involved with Trump’s election interference scheme can be confusing. Fortunately there is NewsTRACS.

Who was paid to keep quiet before the 2016 election to help Trump’s campaign? Why did Trump want to so badly suppress their stories? What role did David Pecker and the National Enquirer play in cover-up? What are the criminal indictments against the former MAGA President?

Follow along with NewsTRAC, a free resource with loads of information. You’ll find dozens of other valuable resources on Russian misinformation campaigns, cyberattacks and corruption.

Election interference cover-up scheme

Michael Cohen helped arrange for National Enquirer publisher American Media, Inc. (AMI) to pay former Playboy model Karen McDougal $150,000 to keep her story of a ten month affair with Trump in 2006 quiet. AMI, which renamed to A360 Media, LLC, and CEO David Pecker, later agreed to pay a penalty of $187,500 to the FEC for violating the Federal Campaign Act by making payments to suppress negatives stories about Trump.

After Stormy Daniels’s lawyer Keith Davidson contacted AMI, subpoenas show calls among various people including Michael Cohen, Trump, Hope Hicks and AMI CEO David Pecker and National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard. — NewsTRACS

Alvin Bragg

Conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. has indicted DONALD J. TRUMP, 76, for falsifying New York business records in order to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election. During the election, TRUMP and others employed a “catch and kill” scheme to identify, purchase, and bury negative information about him and boost his electoral prospects. TRUMP then went to great lengths to hide this conduct, causing dozens of false entries in business records to conceal criminal activity, including attempts to violate state and federal election laws. — Manhattan DA

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David Pecker: Why the ex-National Enquirer parent company CEO will be star witness — Independent
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