Exclusive: Ex-tabloid publisher David Pecker 'swatted' on day of Trump trial testimony

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Source: Reuters

May 6, 2024 5:09 PM EDT Updated 12 hours ago


May 6 (Reuters) - Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, who testified at Donald Trump's criminal trial last month, was targeted in a fake emergency the same day he took the stand in New York, according to police records seen by Reuters. The previously unreported April 25 "swatting" incident, or filing of a false report to trigger a potentially dangerous response, is one in a wave of violent threats against U.S. officials and other public figures in recent years.

A person using the name "Jamal" claimed in an email to a local newspaper that he had tied up his wife in the basement and killed his wife's lover. Jamal gave the address of the crime as Pecker's home in Greenwich, Connecticut. "I fucked up really bad," Jamal wrote. "Please help me."

The incident report by the Greenwich Police Department said when police were alerted to the email they were already aware of Pecker's home address due to his "being involved in a highly publicized trial." "A check ... revealed no emergency," said the report, which was seen by Reuters through a records request. "The email was likely a swatting by proxy attempt." Reuters was unable to confirm whether any arrests were made.

It appeared to be the first report of a swatting attempt against someone testifying in the Republican presidential candidate's 12-day-old hush money trial.



Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ex-tabloid-publisher-david-pecker-witness-trump-trial-swatting-target-2024-05-06/

[Irish_Dem]

1. What other things are happening that we don't know about?

To witnesses. prosecutors and possibly the jury?

[marble falls]

2. Read about it in the tabloids, seems Bat Boy was involved ...

[70sEraVet]

5. Last year, i was in the dentist's chair getting fitted for a new bridge in the front

Three teeth had been ground down to points, to serve as anchors for the bridge. I took out my phone and snapped a selfie, while doing my best 'Bat Boy' pose. I sent it, next to an old Bat Boy article to my kids, with the headline "Bat Boy Reaches Full Retirement Age!"

[marble falls]

9. Only we 70s so boomers know bat boy!

[prodigitalson]

11. 56 y/o genXr and remember bat boy well

[KS Toronado]

3. MAGAts will kill/harm republicans disloyal to Der Fuhrer

[Ford_Prefect]

4. This is what DJT has encouraged and demanded from his cultists all along.

[70sEraVet]

6. The use of 'swatting' to intimidate a witness?

That should bring some BIG prison time!

[IronLionZion]

7. Email to a newspaper is pretty suspicious

Most swatting uses phone to 911 and a sense of urgency.

[FakeNoose]

8. Pecker's testimony was already on the record, am I right?

He gave testimony to the Manhattan grand jury, and also to Mueller a few years ago.

Swatting him meant nothing, the prosecutors already had everything they needed.
It just shows how petty and vindictive Chump really is.

[JoseBalow]

10. They actually sent an email for a swatting?