At this point, any type of savagery pulled by Donald Trump won’t change the mind of his cult members. Nevertheless, it’s worth nothing that the National Enquirer, one of the only newspapers to support Trump, besides the Ku Klux Klan’s, paid $150,000 to kill a story a Playboy Playmate told them about that time the married presidential candidate was blowing her back out.
Reports Gothamist:
The Wall Street Journal reports, “The tabloid-newspaper publisher reached an agreement in early August with Karen McDougal, the 1998 Playmate of the Year. American Media Inc., which owns the Enquirer, hasn’t published anything about what she has told friends was a consensual romantic relationship she had with Mr. Trump in 2006. At the time, Mr. Trump was married to his current wife, Melania. Quashing stories that way is known in the tabloid world as ‘catch and kill.'”
Further, “Ms. McDougal expected her story about Mr. Trump to be published, people familiar with the matter said. American Media didn’t intend to run it, said another person familiar with the matter.”
National Enquirer’s parent company American Media Inc. claims that it paid $150,000 to McDougal for “two years’ worth of her fitness columns and magazine covers as well as exclusive life rights to any relationship she has had with a then-married man,” according to the WSJ.
The company said in a statement, “AMI has not paid people to kill damaging stories about Mr. Trump.”
Yeah, okay.
This is where we point out that AMI’s CEO, David Pecker, is buddies with Trump.
Peep the full story at Gothamist. The jig is up. Well, it’s been near Pluto for months.
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