National Enquirer Shreds Trump Documents from Safe After WSJ Inquiry

| Importance: 9/10 | Status: confirmed

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.

Key Actors

Dylan Howard David Pecker National Enquirer/AMI Wall Street Journal Karen McDougal Michael Cohen

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document-destruction evidence-tampering pecker-vault obstruction catch-and-kill pre-election-panic hush-money

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