'It was for the campaign': David Pecker blows a hole in Trump's hush money defense

David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, poked a hole in Donald Trump's defense in his hush money case Thursday by testifying that the former president made the payments to benefit his 2016 presidential campaign.

At a Manhattan court hearing, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass asked Pecker about a practice called "catch and kill," in which the magazine would purchase negative stories on behalf of Trump to keep them out of the public eye.

Pecker said he "made...