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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I might feel bad if it was anyone other than Ted Cruz.[/quote]

Well during the general election the Enquirer would constantly run stories about Hillary.

[quote] The Other Way the National Enquirer Helped Elect Trump
In addition to a secret agreement to bury the story of an alleged affair, the tabloid publisher AMI also published a stream of outlandish attacks on Hillary Clinton.[/quote]
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/national-inquirer-helped-trump-attacking-clinton/578116/

These “stories” get picked up by the more mainstream media and Hillary would have to answer questions about these stories. The stories were a long the lines of do you still beat your dog? You know stories to increase negative perceptions of candidates. [/quote]
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The same media were supposed to pretend is “liberal.”[/quote]
+1 Here’s how the “liberal media” reacted:
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[twitter]https://x.com/markjacob16/status/1782909567745028224?s=46&t=kf1qYlCXQnKgUhJWEIu2vg[/twitter]
[twitter]https://x.com/markjacob16/status/1782910210744455254?s=46&t=kf1qYlCXQnKgUhJWEIu2vg[/twitter]
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The people who runs these media outlets either wanted Trump to win or they are the dumbest people alive. There’s no other explanation for their behavior.[/quote]

[b]They were only thinking of the ratings, click$, and controversy. They didn’t think he could win so it was totally fine to obsessively cover his sideshow of a campaign because people were interested!!!!! Free market baby!!!!![/b]

In 2016 I was working at a place that often had cable news playing on the break room and lobby TV’s - not usually Fox News, even, it was a pretty even mix of Fox and CNN and the network morning shows if I was there early in the morning - and I swear half the time the news networks were covering a Trump rally. Just giving him critique-free, uncritical airtime. I stopped watching the Today show in 2015 because they would have Trump call in seemingly every morning and just let him rant and never push back or question. Then when he was actually elected in 2016 it was the worst thing ever and how could this happen, oh but now we’ll cover him critically and ask questions because that’s what’s getting ratings and clicks and public support now. [/quote]

Actually that is not what happened. The Enquirer bought the rights to negative stories about Trump and buried the stories. [/quote]

They buried stories critical of Trump, but also coordinated directly with Trump to make up fake stories about his opponents in the GOP and Hillary Clinton (aka "fake news").

They were doing both - Pecker admitted to it yesterday on the witness stand. It was direct coordination with Trump himself and then Michael Cohen on behalf of Trump. 
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How is that legal?
Surely that can’t be legal, right?[/quote]

Trump's lawyer is arguing that in a democracy the only way to get elected is to "influence the election." Plus, 1st Amendment rights of both Trump to advocate for himself and the National Inquirer to support whomever they want in the manner they choose.

Ted Cruz and his father really ought to be suing the National Inquirer for libel.

The legality of the coordination hinges on the payment arrangement between Trump and the National Inquirer. Trump initially reimbursed the NI for killing stories. But then he stopped paying them and NI was eating the costs for killing stories. That's an illegal campaign contribution. [/quote]

Yes and also Trump booking the payments as legal fees for his business was fraud and not reporting them as campaign contributions was fraud. All of this has been established in Cohen’s prosecution by DOJ (while Trump was President) and Pecker’s agreement with the FEC to pay fines for making illegal campaign contributions. All that is left is to apply the same facts and standards to the co-conspirator who was the one who personally and politically benefited from the fraudulent scheme. [/quote]

It’s really under appreciated that Trumps DOJ prosecuted Cohen for this very same scheme.  Trump is now complaining that it didn’t happen/it’s not illegal/ he’s being unfairly targeted, but he did nothing at all to stop the prosecution of Cohen.
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