#the national enquirer

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The National Enquirer, Best of the 20th Century.

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This Day in Buster…March 3, 1959

The Miami Herald reprints a story from the National Inquirer which suggested Buster Keaton won big in Las Vegas, but reps at the Deauville insisted it couldn’t be true…we wouldn’t be so sure…

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And another color, rare and out of place, yet interesting. Powerful. Eldritch. The pink swath, as it comes and goes... of the Halloween Rainbow.

might be by deleted tumblr user thegoodvybe used as an album cover by dandelion hands and pigofilia but the subtitle is unclear, Abdullah Evindar, Bernhard Niedermeier, Federica Villani, sashaelage posted by lionfloss, closest thing to a source cuz it's earliest but this flicker user actively admits they stole it from tumblr, onlinepill, Andy Goldsworthy's sculptures, heavenlyyblue

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https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-enquirer-catch-kill-57f0c462af437fb07967a041b6f66022

The greatest failure of our democratic republic is that of the fourth estate.

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Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

Donald Trump’s first of four criminal trials is scheduled to begin Monday in New York. After what is expected to be two to three weeks for jury selection, Trump’s criminal trial—where he is facing 34 felonies--is predicted to take six weeks. That means by mid-June, Donald Trump will be a convicted felon. It’s really that simple. Is there a chance Trump is not convicted? Sure, as a former trial lawyer, I can vouch firsthand that juries can surprise you. But based on the evidence developed in the criminal investigation and disclosed during the pre-trial portion of this case, it is clear that Trump falsified documents to conceal other federal and state crimes. Thus, Trump committed numerous felonies. Everyone knows the core allegation, namely that Trump—via his then lawyer Michael Cohen--paid $130,000 shortly before the 2016 election to stop Stormy Daniels from going public with the tale of her affair with Trump.  Now, if Trump had paid Daniels solely to keep his wife from finding out about his affair, that would be one thing. It wasn’t.  

Trump paid Daniels the money because he feared that if information went public at the time, he would lose the 2016 election. That at the very least made the secret payment a violation of federal election laws—which is one of the felonies Cohen pled guilty to committing in 2018, telling the court he made the payment “in coordination with, and at the direction of,” a presidential candidate who was Trump. This is why Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has repeatedly stated  the “core” of this case “is not money for sex,” it’s election corruption.  Indeed, the very first line of the Statement of Facts that details the basis for the charges against Trump tells us that, “The defendant DONALD J. TRUMP repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.”

When you look at the timing of when Trump first hatched this scheme to pay off Daniels, you get why this was all about the campaign.  The charging documents tell us point blank: “About one month before the election, on or about October 7, 2016, news broke that the Defendant had been caught on tape saying to the host of Access Hollywood: “I just start kissing them [women]. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything…Grab ’em by the [genitals]. You can do anything.”   The political firestorm caused by the release of the Access Hollywood tape is why just three days later, Trump—with the help of Cohen and his publisher friend AMI Editor-in-Chief David Pecker-- moved swiftly to pay off Daniels. They heard she was shopping around the story of her affair with Trump. And Trump, former Trump aide Hope Hicks (who the State will be calling as a witness), Cohen and others knew that it would have been devastating for his campaign if voters learned in the midst of the Access Hollywood tape backlash that Trump had an affair with a “porn star” a mere four months after Melania gave birth to their only child. 

Indeed, the statement of facts tells us this was all about the campaign: “The evidence shows that both the Defendant and his campaign staff were concerned that the tape would harm his viability as a candidate and reduce his standing with female voters in particular.” That is why Daniels was approached on October 10, 2016, with a deal to “prevent disclosure of the damaging information in the final weeks before the presidential election.”  Under the agreement, Daniels was paid $130,000. But here is where the crimes come in. As the pleadings explain, Trump “did not want to make the $130,000 payment himself” so he asked Cohen to come up with a way to do that. “After discussing various payment options,” Cohen agreed he would make the payment and Trump would pay him back. It all worked as planned, Daniels never told America about the affair and Trump won the election.

Then, “shortly after being elected President, the Defendant arranged to reimburse” Cohen for the payoff he made to Daniels on Trump’s behalf. The plan they came up was that Cohen would be paid monthly for “legal fees” until the amount he advanced was repaid. In reality, as the pleadings note, “At no point did Lawyer A [Cohen] have a retainer agreement with the Defendant or the Trump Organization.”   Yet Cohen still submitted monthly invoices to Trump’s company for legal services. Some were paid by Trump’s company while nine of the reimbursement checks to Cohen for fabricated legal services came from Trump’s personal bank account and Trump “signed each of the checks personally.” And as alleged, “The Defendant caused his entities’ business records to be falsified to disguise his and others’ criminal conduct.”

Dean Obeidallah wrote in his Dean's Report Substack that Donald Trump will likely have the words "convicted felon" attached to his name by sometime in June or early July should the jury find him guilty in the Manhattan election interference case. Most of America wants to see charges levied against him.

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Icy Idol Melting for Strawberry Sweetheart??? You Won't Believe This!!! (GRWM & GOSSIP)

Hi hi hiiii, gossip gang! Hold ON to your cupcakes, 'cause we’ve got some CANDID CLIPS straight outta Linkon!

Everyone's favorite Ice Prince of Deepspace, Zayne Li (yes, the same guy who practically invented the 'frosty' look) was spotted sneaking out of Very Cherry, the CUTEST bakery in town.

And guess who owns it?

None other than Dhriti Lahiri, the TikTac sensation known for her OTT High Teas and Dreamy Desserts!

'Hey hun, where's our tea?' I hear you cry! Well, according to our Very Secret Sources, this wasn’t Zayne’s first covert cupcake run!!

'He’s been there a lot, always trying to go incognito with a cap and mask, but come on, honey--those cheekbones could cut glass,' an insider spilled to us. Umm, what’s the deal, Zaynie? Craving sweets... or something sweeter?

Oh, but wait--major plot twist! Rumor has it Zayne and Rita go waaay back. We’re talking CHILDHOOD, folks! Excuse me? How did they keep that under wraps? And just how 'friendly' are these little bake shop visits, huh?

Naturally, stans are Losing. It. online, like, could it be? Has the King of Cold Shoulders finally warmed up? We’re on the case, so don’t go anywhere!!

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Today’s front pages

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Poet Scarlett Sabet and Led Zeppelin Founder Jimmy Page were in the National Enquirer on January 29, 2024.

I hope this story is true.

Photos: National Enquirer

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i just got blocked by this weirdo (who from what i understand is p big in the good omens fandom?) for daring to say that i think it’s nice david and georgia seem happy in their marriage. y’all do nothing but speedrun misogyny and say some of the most vile shit imaginable, and if anyone says anything about it you claim they’re being homophobic against david and michael??? somehow??? like baby let me be the first to say i am gay AND a rpf enjoyer and i truly believe this to be huge fucking freak behaviour. get well soon!

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do you happen to know from what news outlet that spread is from?

pretty sure NE stands for national enquirer 😆

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Sara Boboltz and Ryan Grenoble at HuffPost:

Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to Donald Trump, testified against the ex-president on Monday in his New York criminal hush money trial, corroborating claims of an extraordinary effort to silence stories that could be damaging to Trump in the days before the 2016 presidential election.

While Cohen has been cooperating with government prosecutors for several years, his appearance on the witness stand is an extraordinary moment in his long relationship with Trump — a man for whom Cohen once said he would “take a bullet.” Under questioning from prosecutor Susan Hoffinger, Cohen described how he cajoled, aggressively bullied and outright lied to do whatever Trump asked of him. “The only thing that was on my mind was to accomplish the task, to make him happy,” he said. “I did... what was needed in order to accomplish the task.” When Trump first hired him, Cohen earned $525,000 a year doing things like calling vendors and renegotiating bills to a fraction of their original cost, or threatening media outlets over negative stories about his boss. But as the 2016 election cycle progressed, Cohen’s role shifted. He started negotiating with National Enquirer executives, including publisher David Pecker, to conjure positive coverage for his boss.

At the same time, and with Trump’s explicit approval, Cohen bought the rights to negative stories through the Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc. The stories were then locked away in a scheme known as “catch and kill.” Cohen said he was closely involved with hush money payments that prosecutors say were made during Trump’s 2016 campaign, including a $150,000 sum to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who says she had a yearlong affair with Trump in the mid-2000s. When he first heard about McDougal’s story, Cohen said he immediately went to Trump in person to warn him about the damage it could cause. “His response to me was, ‘She’s really beautiful,’” he recalled. “I said, ‘OK, but there’s a story that’s right now being shopped.’” Cohen said Trump told him to “make sure it doesn’t get released.”

The two bought the rights to McDougal’s life story for $150,000, prompting a scramble to repay Pecker. As Trump delayed furnishing the funds, Cohen recalled having lunch with a “very” upset Pecker, who told him the sum was “too much to hide” from his parent company. [...] Cohen also spoke at length about how he orchestrated a hush money payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels, who maintains that she had an affair with Trump in 2006. Daniels’ desire to make her allegation public knowledge during Trump’s 2016 campaign for the presidency set into motion the chain of events that led New York prosecutors to charge Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records. “Trump told me that he was playing golf with ‘Big Ben’ Roethlisberger... and they had met Stormy Daniels and others there,” Cohen recalled, adding that Trump expressed the sentiment “that women prefer Trump even over someone like Big Ben.” (Multiple women have accused Roethlisberger of sexual assault.)

Michael Cohen's testimony in the People of New York v. Trump trial could be a fatal blow for Donald Trump. #TrumpTrial

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