Standing in line with groceries at the checkout took about fifteen minutes in the 70s, ten minutes in the 90s and five minutes today. The one constant to the experience is tabloid newspapers in your face as wait. Most Americans see the cover of the National Enquirer once a week. Ever since they published the John Edwards lovechild story, they were taken more seriously than the other garbage on the rack. That prime piece of supermarket eyeball real estate has been used by the National Enquirer to promote a Donald Trump presidency since since 2010, according to a report on Thursday by the Wall Street Journal:
“In 2010, at Cohen’s urging, the National Enquirer began promoting a potential Trump presidential candidacy, referring readers to a pro-Trump website Cohen helped create. With Cohen’s involvement, the publication began questioning President Barack Obama’s birthplace and American citizenship in print, an effort that Trump promoted for several years, former staffers said.”
Think about that paragraph. The tabloid gave six years of free advertising to candidate Trump before he was elected. It also deliberately pushed the phony birther narrative to make Trump’s ‘big lie’ against President Obama more palatable to the rubes. Wouldn’t “promoting” the candidacy be a violation of campaign finance laws? Why would the aptly named David Pecker agree to demonize Obama by spreading the lie that he wasn’t a real American?
The National Enquirer did all this on Cohen’s urging? Cohen? The lawyer with two-and-a-half clients? The guy who pays off the pussy?
I’m not buying it. Trump and Pecker have been friends for decades. Now that Pecker has realized Trump’s friendship is less important than staying out of jail, I expect we’ll learn a lot in the coming months about how those two rigged the system with fake news.
I’m curious to know how much commission Pecker made in the catch and kill scandal business. ‘There’s a nasty story about you going around that we won’t put on the front page if you buy it,” stinks of blackmail. Surely the National Enquirer gained some kind of reward for these transactions. Hopefully we’ll find out because we’re about to get distracted by the contents of Pecker’s supposedly epic Donald Trump scandal stash.
It’s poetic that thirty years of truth is about to be released from the vaults of an organization that publishes lies. The non-disclosure agreements are melting away. The level of scandalous truth about to be unleashed on Trump will be historic. It will make past covers of the weekly tabloids tame by comparison.
Trump and Pecker conspired to brainwash the American people with known lies while we stood in line at the checkout counter. Some are upset that Pecker won’t face any criminal penalties for his actions but I think it’s more important that he be exposed and spill the beans on Trump. As voters, we need to learn what really happened and how we were manipulated so we don’t get lost in the supermarket again.
Lost In The Supermarket – The Clash
Wes Clark Jr. 