Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Peter Bart: Trapped In A Circus Of Sleaze, David Pecker Had Looked For An Escape Route
deadline.comDavid Pecker stabbed impatiently at his veal piccata. We’d been having a cordial business lunch, but he was growing frustrated.
The publisher of the National Enquirer was pitching an ambitious deal to me involving major money — not a Stormy Daniels sort of deal — but my disinterest in it puzzled him. “This could be an important journalistic venture,” he said. “That may be true,” I replied, “but I don’t care to be part of it.” We exchanged a friendly handshake and he picked up the tab, but no deal was made.
A decade later, Pecker is wallowing in another journalistic venture, albeit perversely different. The Donald Trump hush-money criminal trial, in which he is a key witness, hinges on a controversial Pecker deal, this one with Trump.
It involves a “catch and kill” genre story — one at which Pecker had become a master. Pecker, having made a deal with prosecutors, testified that he paid for a bogus story from a doorman alleging that Trump had fathered an illegitimate child.
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