CNN’s Stelter on the National Enquirer: ‘President Trump Has Lost One of His Biggest Backers in the Media’

‘When the subpoenas arrived at the office of the American media they went back to the typical celebrity covers the inquirer is known for’

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STELTER: “ The “National Enquirer” exposed. Right after President Trump’s long-time lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to three years in prison this week, prosecutors revealed that David pecker backed up Cohen’s account of what happened. Pecker, a long-time media executive, was also a long-time pal of trump’s. But not any more. In essence, the inquirer finally confessed to the practice of catch and kill. Buying up bad stories and burying them. And the inquirer has finally broken off ties with trump. I want to show you a time line we put together of all of the magazine’s cover involving trump, starting in January 2017. On these covers, Trump is the and his enemies are numerous from Obama to the FBI to the deep state. But these covers were selling trump. They were promoting Trump, right up until then. Right there. April and may of this year. When the subpoenas arrived at the office of the American media they went back to the typical celebrity covers the inquirer is known for. All of a sudden, as soon as Cohen was being investigated, the pro Trump covers stopped. So what does that mean from a media perspective? It means that President Trump has lost one of his biggest backers in the media. Think about it this way. Millions of people see the “National Enquirer” on the newsstand every week but now they don’t see the Trump boosterism.”

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