Jonah BromwichReporting from inside the courthouse
Joshua Steinglass addresses Todd Blanche’s interest in “catch and kill,”…
…the practice was exactly what had been agreed to, and argues that suppressing those stories amounted to committing fraud toward American voters, pulling the wool over their eyes “in a coordinated fashion.”
He calls The National Enquirer “a covert arm” of Trump's 2016 campaign.
[Okay, but was catch and kill not LEGAL?]
May 28, 2024, 3:00 p.m. ET
Maggie HabermanReporting from inside the courthouse
Joshua Steinglass is now puncturing one of Todd Blanche’s favorite arguments — that The National Enquirer is just like all other publications and that David Pecker's arrangement with Trump wasn’t unusual. It may not have been unusual for The Enquirer, but there is nothing normal or standard about what the tabloid was doing with Trump.
[It WAS legal though, no?]
