The National Enquirer was the go-to American tabloid for many years. Donald Trump helped change that

 

April 26, 2024



NEW YORK (AP) — Catch and kill. Checkbook journalism. Secret deals. Friends helping friends.

Even by National Enquirer standards, testimony by its former publisher David Pecker at Donald Trump's hush money trial this week has revealed an astonishing level of corruption at America's best-known tabloid and may one day be seen as the moment it effectively died.

"It just has zero credibility," said Lachlan Cartwright, executive editor of the Enquirer from 2014 to 2017. "Whatever sort of credibility it had was totally damaged by what happened in court this week."

On Thursday, Pecker was back on the...



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