New York City's tabloids have some fun with National Enquirer publisher David Pecker turning on Trump

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published 24 August 2018

On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that National Enquirer publisher David Pecker had been granted immunity by federal prosecutors, presumably to spill the dirt on the various porn actresses and Playboy models who were paid hush money after saying they had extramarital affairs with Pecker's friend President Trump. And then The Associated Press reported that all those Trump-related secrets had been locked up in an actual safe at the National Enquirer offices.

So you have a guy named Pecker involved in paying off professionally naked women on behalf of the president, who was a New York City tabloid staple for 35 years. This would seem to be catnip for New York's tabloids. The New York Daily News took the bait, but the New York Post, unexpectedly, took a more conceptual approach.

It's too bad that story about Attorney General Jeff Sessions being an alien isn't actually inside, though.

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.