A former american president and his fixer and a big time ally of his in the tabloid media. It was a plan crafted to cast then candidate donald trump in a positive light in the allimportant tabloids. Using stories that were favorable to him and silencing ones that werent and smearing everybody that got in the way. The witness on the stand today on the Hush Money Trial, details exactly how this scheme worked on a daytoday basis. David pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer described a relationship with donald trump that dated back to the late 1980s and noted that trump was one the first people to call him and congratulate him when he bought the National Enquirer back in 1999. So tlir friendship was already long standing by the time donald trump decided so to run for president. The questioning today was the details an the operational aspects of that explicit agreement between trump, his lawyer Michael Cohen, and david pecker. And what they did to boost trumps campaign. And
the trump foundation for a 15-year tax fraud. now he has this one. that is a big deal. and i think we should recognize the skill, the talent, and the drive that undergirds everything that happened here. i am, however, also looking at the way trump allies, wanna be trump allies and the republican party writ large is reacting to this. i agree with you, joy. the specter of a republican front-runner being crowned the nominee four days after the sentencing, becoming a felon, is something we never thought he would see in americans history. the reality is the trump team, the rnc. republicans across the country think this is a gift to them. eric trump saying today, may 30th, 2024, might be remembered as the day donald j. trump was re-elected. and that is not to say that s necessarily what s going to happen, but it points to this incredible schism in american culture and politics where one, i think earth one, as rachel maddow likes to call it, understands what happened here as a tes