Stu Zakim: Trump and David Pecker ‘Offered Each Other Benefits that Wouldn’t Occur in Any Other Relationship’

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ZAKIM: “Well, they operate very similarly. Just as Trump has been renowned as we saw during his eight years, unfortunately, as president, he pitted a lot of his colleagues in a circle against each other. He would say one thing to one and say one thing to the other and see how they communicated. Well, David Pecker operates the same way. I don’t want to use the word bully, but that certainly does apply to how he operates. And as his communications head, I was there for a lot of those game-playing that went down. So, it’s no surprise to me clearly that these guys have been friends forever. They feed off of each other. They offer each other benefits that wouldn’t occur in any other relationship, and now, we have a situation where David Pecker made a deal with the Southern District of New York to testify so that he would not be held responsible for the role that the Enquirer and AMI title as a whole played during the 2016 election and helping Trump get elected.”