National Enquirer Boss David Pecker Tiptoes Away From His Pal Trump as Scandal Swirls...

[babylonsister]

National Enquirer Boss David Pecker Tiptoes Away From His Pal Trump as Scandal Swirls and Circulation Drops
Nothing Trump touches ever remains the same, including supermarket tabloids.
Lachlan Markay
Asawin Suebsaeng
Dean Sterling Jones
08.02.18 8:30 PM ET


Shortly after the feds raided the office of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s now estranged personal attorney and longtime enforcer, National Enquirer publisher David Pecker went into a state of calculated retreat.

For years, Pecker’s tabloid had promoted and puffed up Trump’s political rise and his presidency. But once a regular fixture on the cover of the National Enquirer, Trump hasn’t appeared on it since an issue dated early May. That appearance was for a cover story on the various scandals swirling around... Cohen.

In that same issue detailing Cohen’s dirty work—work in which the Enquirer itself played a key role—there was another story showing how the Enquirer’s “lie detector examination” supposedly absolved Trump of any Russia-related collusion. Si

Since then, the tabloid's approach to the saga has ranged from muted to silent. The most recent issue of the Enquirer, dated July 30, 2018, doesn’t feature a single item on Trump in the entire, 47-page edition—though the issue did have room for a story on how the late James Bond actor Roger Moore “SMELLED BAD!” due to “rampant flatulence.”

The president’s disappearance from the pages of Pecker’s famous, Trump-endorsing supermarket tabloid was no coincidence. It also further demonstrates how so much of what President Trump touches, including the tabloids that relish the drama he produces, seems to suffer under the weight of scandals.

According to multiple sources familiar with the situation, Pecker and the Enquirer’s top brass made a conscious decision to pull back on their pro-Trump coverage, just as Pecker’s media empire found itself increasingly embroiled in Trumpworld’s legal and public-relations woes.

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[Cha]

1. Wow. When you've

lost.. well you know the rest.

[Mc Mike]

2. Turning them around on the check out line shelf is hurting their circulation, too.

[Sophiegirl]

5. Especially...

....when you have to show ID.

[Jarqui]

3. If I recall Avenatti accurately, there was a second catch and kill

by the National Enquirer.

If law enforcement asked Pecker about that before and he lied ....

There's little doubt that they're under a second round of scrutiny as this case unravels.

[malaise]

4. Too late

Fuck off!

[mgardener]

6. I'd say boycott the NE

But I do not know anybody stupid enough to buy it.

[HipChick]

8. I do....

And she believes everything she reads in it.... unfortunately some folks are willfully ignorant..

[meow2u3]

11. I go one step further regarding the National Enquirer

Every time I see the NE while I'm waiting on line food shopping (I was never asked for an ID, btw), I take the rag and flip it so that the back cover shows instead of the front. I've been doing this since Russia stole the election from HRC for Trump.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread babylonsister

[Fritz Walter]

9. Tiptoes?

Perhaps in the same manner as a spider tiptoes away from the drained carcass of its last victim.

[louis c]

10. The guy's name is Pecker. You can't make this stuff up

[meow2u3]

12. He certainly lives up to his name nt

[forgotmylogin]

13. I don't know how much the website mirrors the actual print rag...

But their home page is all Hollywood/Royal sex scandals now, and I know several months ago the ones I was seeing in the stores were essentially propaganda flyers for Trump. Now I don't even bother turning them around in line because they're all about Blake Shelton.

[SayItLoud]

14. Shred and burn

After Cohen office raid, ManaFART raid I'm betting Pecker got rid of a lot of stuff.

[Marthe48]

15. How could pecker feel respected?

Ok, he's a hack, but his so-called friend trumpopovitch thinks the media is all fake, so aside from the dirt on people that pecker handles, his buddy thinks his career is fake?

With friends like that who needs enemies?

[dalton99a]

16. Pecker waged a long fake news campaign to damage Hillary

[GusBob]

18. Now that grocery stores require photo ID for purchases, sales of everything are down

n/t