David Pecker, the former chairman of the National Enquirer‘s parent company, is expected to be called as the first witness when evidence begins in Donald Trump‘s hush-money trial on Monday.
Pecker was allegedly present at a meeting with Trump in 2015 about how the National Enquirer could help him get elected in the 2016 presidential election.
That allegedly led to the Enquirer being used as a front by Trump while he was trying to silence women with whom he had allegedly had affairs.
According to prosecutors, the magazine would buy up the person’s story and never publish it—a way of hiding any possible scandal.
