National Enquirer Shreds Trump Documents from Safe After WSJ Inquiry

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Financial Capture Electoral Manipulation Media Capture & Control

After Wall Street Journal calls about McDougal payment, Dylan Howard orders staff to “get everything out of the safe” and shred documents, destroying evidence days before election. The Enquirer’s leadership, including CEO David Pecker, maintained a ‘catch and kill’ safe containing damaging stories about Trump during the 2016 campaign.

Sources & Citations

[1] National Enquirer shredded Trump vault files · Oct 15, 2019 Tier 2

[2] Ronan Farrow says Enquirer shredded documents · Oct 14, 2019 Tier 1

[3] AP: National Enquirer Kept Damaging Trump Stories in Safe · Aug 24, 2018 Tier 1

[4] Ronan Farrow Book Reveals National Enquirer's Trump Document Destruction · Jun 6, 2024 Tier 1

Tiers Tier 1 court records & gov docs · Tier 2 established outlets · Tier 3 regional & specialty press · Tier 4 opinion or single-source. Methodology →

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The Cascade Ledger. “National Enquirer Shreds Trump Documents from Safe After WSJ Inquiry.” The Capture Cascade Timeline, November 4, 2016. https://capturecascade.org/event/2016-11-04--enquirer-shreds-trump-vault-documents/