Q. If Donald Trump and David Pecker were such good friends, why did Pecker agree to testify for the prosecution?
A. Pecker testified thanks to prosecutors’ immunity. Although he appeared cheerful and friendly, Pecker also made clear that he believed he and his company had violated election law on behalf of Trump. When the Federal Election Commission and the FBI called, he cooperated to protect himself and his business.
Pecker is not in the same category as Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer who went after the former president not only in a legal sense but also in a personal sense. For years, Cohen’s antipathy for Trump was on display daily, sometimes hourly. Pecker, by contrast, said he considers Trump a friend but hasn’t spoken to him in several years, largely because of the legal mess the two men find themselves in.
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