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Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts)
Thu Aug 23, 2018, 08:54 PM Aug 2018

Interesting tidbit from NBC's National Inquirer safe of secrets story:

Former Enquirer employees who spoke to the AP said that negative stories about Trump were dead on arrival dating back more than a decade when he starred on NBC’s reality show “The Apprentice.”
In 2010, at Cohen’s urging, the National Enquirer began promoting a potential Trump presidential candidacy, referring readers to a pro-Trump website Cohen helped create. With Cohen’s involvement, the publication began questioning President Barack Obama’s birthplace and American citizenship in print, an effort that Trump promoted for several years, former staffers said.
The Enquirer endorsed Trump for president in 2016, the first time it had ever officially backed a candidate. In the news pages, Trump’s coverage was so favorable that the New Yorker magazine said the Enquirer embraced him “with sycophantic fervor.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/national-enquirer-hid-trump-secrets-safe-removed-them-inauguration-n903356

The Trump/Cohen/Pecker shenanigans go back a long way! Now I know why Cohen was called The Fixer.

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Interesting tidbit from NBC's National Inquirer safe of secrets story: (Original Post) Claritie Pixie Aug 2018 OP
Where do the Russians fit in? GusBob Aug 2018 #1
Tip of the iceberg. Tip of the iceberg. Claritie Pixie Aug 2018 #3
The Cohen tape, when he says "our friend David" GusBob Aug 2018 #2
I'm sorry, I can't get passed the notion of the National Enquirer endorsing someone!!! Bleacher Creature Aug 2018 #4
You'd be surprised. Trumpers read that stuff and believe it. Claritie Pixie Aug 2018 #5

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
2. The Cohen tape, when he says "our friend David"
Thu Aug 23, 2018, 09:00 PM
Aug 2018

I always thought that there was something too familiar about how quickly Trump knew what they were talking about

Bleacher Creature

(11,256 posts)
4. I'm sorry, I can't get passed the notion of the National Enquirer endorsing someone!!!
Thu Aug 23, 2018, 09:40 PM
Aug 2018

I mean seriously, did it really move any voters????

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