<p>The former publisher of the National Enquirer admitted in court this week that the outlet under his leadership &#8220;created&#8221; a false story about Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s (R-TX) father during the 2016 presidential election.</p>
<p>David Pecker made the remarks on Tuesday while testifying at former President Donald Trump&#8217;s trial in Manhattan criminal court when <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/national-enquirer-ted-cruz-father-rafael-lee-harvey-oswald-rcna149027">asked</a> by prosecutors about the origin of the story.</p>
<p>The tabloid ran a story in April 2016 where it fabricated a photograph of Cruz&#8217;s father, Rafael Cruz, with Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated President John F. Kennedy, that the publication claimed was taken three months prior to the November 1963 shooting.</p>
<p>NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/national-enquirer-ted-cruz-father-rafael-lee-harvey-oswald-rcna149027">reported</a> that Pecker said that the publication&#8217;s then-editor-in-chief and &#8220;research department got involved&#8221; and &#8220;faked the photo that was the foundation for the story.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We mashed the photos and the different picture with Lee Harvey Oswald,&#8221; Pecker said. &#8220;And mashed the two together. And that’s how that story was prepared — created I would say.&#8221;</p>
<p>Pecker said that former Trump fixer Michael Cohen would orchestrate planting negative stories in the publication to help Trump.</p>
<p>&#8220;Michael Cohen would call me and say, &#8216;We would like you to run a negative article on a certain&#8217; — let’s say for argument sake — on Ted Cruz then he — Michael Cohen — would send me information about Ted Cruz or Ben Carson or Marco Rubio, and that was the basis of our story and then we would embellish it from there,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Cohen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/letter-shows-false-claims-made-to-investigators-about-michael-cohens-130000-hush-money-payment-to-stormy-daniels-report">pled guilty</a> in 2018 to several charges in federal court, including <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/michael-cohen-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-eight-counts-including-criminal-tax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign finance violations related to the payment to Daniels</a>. Additionally, Cohen <a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-elections-politics-north-america-28301de8eaa94cc796c5279fc28c1fdb">confessed</a> that he had lied to Congress about an alleged Trump real estate deal in Moscow.</p>
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<p>Pecker <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/24/media/national-enquirer-trump-protect-smear/index.html">said</a> that he told the EIC that &#8220;we’re going to try to help the campaign, and to do that, I want to keep this as quiet as possible.&#8221;</p>

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