Key things to know:
- Day three of witness testimony on Thursday in Trump’s hush money trial, including a former National Enquirer publisher.
- Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of a scheme to bury stories that he feared could hurt his 2016 campaign.
- Others expected to testify are Stormy Daniels, a porn actor who says she had a sexual encounter with Trump, and Michael Cohen, the lawyer who prosecutors say paid her to keep quiet about it.
When Donald Trump was running for president in 2016, his old friend at the National Enquirer, David Pecker was scooping up potentially damaging stories about the candidate and paying out tens of thousands of dollars to keep them from the public eye.
But when it came to the seamy claims by porn performer Stormy Daniels, Pecker said he put his foot down.
Pecker’s testimony was a critical building block for the …