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.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Escapades Raised “Sensitivity” To Election Law Violations, Ex-‘National Enquirer’ Boss Tells Donald Trump Hush Money Trial
deadline.comIt was thanks in part to Arnold Schwarzenegger that the former publisher of the National Enquirer knew he could get in trouble for the tabloid’s catch-and-kill policy and buying off salacious stories about Donald Trump Over objections from Trump’s defense team, ex-American Media CEO David Pecker poignantly Thursday told the judge, jurors, Trump himself and everyone else in a packed Manhattan courtroom he was aware he was violating election law in 2016 when he secretly bought Playmate Karen McDougal’s story of an affair with Trump for $150,000.
Admitting the purchase was entirely to kill the story, Pecker said that the primary purpose behind the payoff and others in a similar vein was to help the then-Celebrity Apprentice host’s presidential campaign.
Such tactics were nothing new for Pecker. Under his deal with Schwarzenegger over 20 years ago, the former media executive said today, “I would call him and advise him of any stories that were out there, and I ended up acquiring them and buying them for a period of time.” Back on the stand in the Trump hush money trial Thursday, Pecker added, he gained a “sensitivity” to campaign finance law based what had gone down in the early 2000s with stories of Schwarzenegger’s alleged misconduct on film sets and elsewhere over the decades.
In the case of Trump and the McDougal story, Pecker came up short and the tale was published just days before the 2016 election by the Wall Street Journal.
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