“The lawyer for Donald Trump who on Friday led the cross-examination of David Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer and first witness in the trial, used confrontational questioning to try to catch Mr. Pecker in contradictions,” the New York Times reports.
“But that strategy, which led to a tense exchange in the Lower Manhattan courtroom, did not seem to pay off.
Mr. Pecker repeatedly rejected characterizations and questions posed by the lawyer, Emil Bove, and resisted the suggestion that he had not been forthright in earlier testimony.”Politico: David Pecker gave prosecutors just what they were looking for in Trump hush money testimony.