beSpacific<p>NYT I Helped Bury Stories About <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>. I Regret It. As Mr. Pecker would testify in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/hushmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hushmoney</span></a> trial in 2024, American Media, publisher of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/NationalEnquirer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalEnquirer</span></a>, bought these negative stories about <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> buried them so that they did not embarrass or harm the campaign a strategy known as catch and kill that Mr. Pecker said he & Trump discussed at the outset of his <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/presidential" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>presidential</span></a> run. As <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/generalcounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generalcounsel</span></a> at the time for American Media, I wrote both of those contracts <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/opinion/national-enquirer-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck8.UqQl.bfzma2sUr5hQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/08/08/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/national-enquirer-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck8.UqQl.bfzma2sUr5hQ</span></a></p>