History of athletics the Us Justice Department is saying about its deal to try to close the books on its investigation into the Larry Nassars sexual abuse case against girls and women in gymnasts next, were going to get reaction from the attorney representing the Gymnast Survivors of Larry Nassars abuse, and leaning this our amajor de and the New York City pasha funny coverup case. A key witness for the prosecutors was back on the stand. His name . David pecker, the former tabloid publisher, and he detailed how he says donald trump used the national so enquirer tabloid to help his 2016 president ial campaign cnns paula reid has a look now at todays Task Testimony as former Tablet Executive Pecker went from killing damaging stories about trump to spilling all on the Witness Stand. Former National Enquirer publisher, david pecker, back on the Witness Stand today, where he shared details of his decadeslong friendship with donald trump and how he eventually used his position to help trump
in this criminal proceeding. so my question to you oh does this post violate that gag order on its face? i think it obviously does. and the question is going to be well, his lawyers be able to convince the judge that there are some question about it because he s technically quoting someone else unpack that for me because that phrasing of it has to or cause somebody else to do it. i think he ll make the argument. will he not that he s just re-posting something. he didn t make the statement. he didn t direct others to make the statement about a prospective juror or any juror in a criminal proceeding. what do you think will be the barometer? or to determine whether or not the re-posting or there quoting somebody else is him actually making the statement that s right. so i think this would be a much closer call, laura, if he actually was re-posting or retreat thing retweeting
january 6th, and he starts doing all this behavior. it s very performative, kaitlan. these guys, the fact he is a live streaming at, he is re-posting, very performative about threats of violence. i think to fill in a little bit, the reason why they had trouble finding taranto, was, he was essentially living out of this van, prosecutor said, this band that had guns and all this ammunition and it. in that time where he was just out, he d been making threats against kevin mccarthy, congressman raskin. he went to he got into an area near an elementary school, near raskin s home. he had this i mean, what is the sense of why it did take them so long to find him beyond the fact that he didn t have a fixed address? right, it was the fixed address aspect of it. they are monitoring him for some periods of time. it is a live streaming, it is the threats, him showing up at places, the evidence about the jamie raskin interaction where he goes to an elementary,
been photographed with qanon folks at mar-a-lago. i don t know if he is actually come out and said i love qanon. has he? all but that essentially. retweeting a graphic of him. all the time. we repeatedly see on truth social where there are a lot of qanon accounts. he is consistently retweeting or re-posting accounts that if you look at them, they are pro qanon. i will mention one thing. taking a step back from this. at the time when trump did get suspended. a lot of people here in the u.s. thought that the door was the right decision. but leaders around the world, including angela merkel at the time, a great fan of trump, could say look, is this the right thing? that company should be able to take a than sitting president of a platform like this. this will come down to republicans, democrats. when terms of whether this was the white right decision around. i think notably tonight, the
knowledge necessary as governments, as democracies? closer to being able to create a safer world, i think. so, again, with every war, whether they re social media or not, a formation is often the first casualty of that war. so there s a lot of misinformation, disinformation. fake photos, fake news. so, people have to exercise a lot of caution, i think, when they re sharing and re-posting. but sharing and re-posting maybe gives us a sense that we re doing something. a sense of comfort. a sense of awareness. but i think we have to really caution ourselves about the fact that it s only we can only do so much. social media will not end a war. absolutely. karen attiah, think you so much. greatly appreciate your insights as always. thanks for coming on.