#Pecker talked about #ArnoldSchwarzenegger for a long time, coming off as meandering as he described doing #CatchAndKill deals for Schwarzenegger once he entered politics. But Joshua #Steinglass, the prosecutor, then helped him link those deals to the matter at hand, asking: "Did you come to appreciate the legalities surrounding such an arrangement w/a political candidate?"

Pecker says he did.

The LA Times’ story about Schwarzenegger was very damaging.

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#Pecker is now describing a 2002 conversation w/ #ArnoldSchwarzenegger where he asked Pecker not to run negative stories about him before his run for governor of California. He was ultimately elected & served from 2003-2011.

Pecker says that women did come forward about relationships that they had w/Schwarzenegger & he did not publish stories on them. One that Pecker passed on ended up in The Los Angeles Times.

#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #ElectionInterference #HushMoney