Tabloid boss David Pecker details plot to kill Trump stories about love child and Playboy model affair [Video]

A tabloid publisher’s secret agreement with Donald Trump and his attorney Michael Cohen helped bury politically compromising stories that the then-presidential candidate had allegedly fathered an illegitimate child and had an affair with a former Playboy model, jurors heard in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday.

In his second day of testimony in the former president’s so-called hush money trial, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker outlined what he called a “mutually beneficial” plan to keep the supermarket tabloid loaded with stories that would boost Mr Trump’s election chances – and ensure “negative” stories never saw the light of day.

As part of the arrangement, Mr Pecker testified that he would tip off Mr Trump’s then-personal attorney and “fixer” Cohen to potentially damaging stories about the then-presidential candidate – particularly those involving women.

The former American Media Inc CEO joined …