How David Pecker's 'embellished' 国家の Enquirer headlines about love childs, sex スキャンダルs and links to JFK's 暗殺 really 衝撃d Trump's 競争相手s? in 2016

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One-by-one during the 2016 大統領の （選挙などの）運動をする, headlines in the ますます political 国家の Enquirer kept eviscerating Donald Trump's 対抗者s.

'TED CRUZ FATHER LINKED TO JFK' said one headline linking Rafael Cruz to 物陰／風下 Harvey Oswald in the spring of 2016. 'BEN CARSON BUTCHERED MY BRAIN!' went another.

To operatives working for Trump's 最高の，を越す 共和国の／共和党の 競争相手s, it didn't take long to 人物／姿／数字 out what was going on with the 普通は celebrity obsessed supermarket tabloid 長，率いるd by longtime Trump friend David Pecker.?

'明確に Pecker was in Trump's pocket. This is what he 手配中の，お尋ね者 him to do and he did it,' said 共和国の／共和党の 顧問 Rick Tyler, who ran communications for Trump 競争相手 Ted Cruz.

Trump's 嵐の Daniels 裁判，公判 has featured bombshell 証言 about a secret '取引，協定' for the 国家の Enquirer to go after his 共和国の／共和党の and Democratic political 競争相手s

He 解任するd the 衝撃 of those newspaper covers, and did not 解任する their 衝撃 on the 選挙民.?

'I just remember. I do think the （選挙などの）運動をする 完全に underestimated the 衝撃 of those stories. People who are shall we say sophisticated will look at those at the checkouts and go that's funny,' Tyler,?Co-創立者 of Foundry 戦略s, told DailyMail.com. '明らかに there are a lot of people that buy that s*** and think it's true,' he said.

He called the 衝撃 hard to 手段, even in a 出版（物） that いつかs ran outlandish stories written off as farce.?

Tyler called another cover story, about a 'Ted Cruz Sex スキャンダル' （人命などを）奪う，主張するing Cruz had 多重の 事件／事情／状勢s, 'hysterically funny.' 'If you knew Cruz at all the idea that he was carrying on 事件／事情／状勢s with six women was 二塁打d over. Gut-wrenchingly funny,' he said.

But to operatives 舵輪／支配ing the 最終的に hapless 成果／努力s to take on the 支配的な celebrity Trump, the repeated 後継の drew notice.?

'明白に we didn't know that Trump was 調整するing 直接／まっすぐに with the publisher of the Enquirer,' said 共和国の／共和党の 顧問 Alex Conant, who ran communications on Sen. Marco Rubio's （選挙などの）運動をする. 'But 明白に the Enquirer was running a lot of プロの／賛成の-Tump ニュース報道,' the 設立するing partner of Firehouse 戦略s told DailyMail.com.

（選挙などの）運動をする headlines about Rubio について言及するd a 'love child' and 'コカイン 関係.' But によれば Pecker's 証言, 攻撃する，衝突するs （機の）カム at 明確な／細部 times, and at the direction of Trump fixer Michael Cohen, who was part of a secret '取引，協定' about （選挙などの）運動をする ニュース報道.?

'My conversations with Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen would call me and say -- he would say, we would like for you to run a 消極的な article on, let's say, for argument sake, on Ted Cruz. Then he would send me -- he 存在 Michael Cohen -- would send me （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） about Ted Cruz or about Ben Carson or about Marco Rubio. That was the basis of our story, and then we would embellish it from there,' Pecker said.

'Not 利益／興味d in revisiting 古代の history,' said Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, on a day David Pecker 配達するd bombshell 証言 about a '取引，協定' with Trump to 抑える 消極的な stories and go after Trump 競争相手s in the 国家の Enquirer. Headlines linked his dad to the JFK 暗殺 and （人命などを）奪う，主張するd he had 'five secret mistresses'

The paper ran 報告（する）／憶測s 主張するing Cruz carried on 事件／事情／状勢s. He furiously 否定するd the （人命などを）奪う，主張するs at the time

Another story covered a 患者's （民事の）告訴 about former 大統領の 候補者 Dr. Ben Carson

Pecker 証言するd that the Enquirer ran 消極的な headlines on Trump 競争相手s when they were 伸び（る）ing in the 投票s

検察官，検事s introduced as 証拠 images of Pecker visiting Trump at the White House after he won the White House in 2017

He said the stories ran 'after the 共和国の／共和党の 審議s, and based on the success of? some of the other 候補者s, I would receive a call from?Michael Cohen and he would direct me and direct [editor] Dylan Howard on?which 候補者 and which direction we should go. That's how?the 過程 happened.'

The stories may have gotten laughs, but they also had 衝撃.

The Cruz JFK story was '明白に 偽の,' said Conant. 'But still something that Cruz had to 競う with. It was a distraction for Cruz's （選挙などの）運動をする.?

Cruz himself wasn't 利益／興味d in revisiting the story that infuriated him during the （選挙などの）運動をする. 'Not 利益／興味d in revisiting 古代の history,' he told reporters in the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 this week.

Pecker was also shown headlines of Enquirer stories about Ben Carson, who was 戦う／戦いing Trump for Evengelical support based on his 劇の story of 打ち勝つing life 障害s.

'Bungling 外科医 Ben Carson left sponge in 患者's brain' read one.

GOP 顧問 Rick Tyler said （選挙などの）運動をするs could sense an 協定 with Pecker

検察官，検事?Matthew Colangelo got Pecker to 認める that Carson had been '伸び（る）ing in 人気 in the 投票s' at the time of the 攻撃する，衝突するs.

'Were these headlines run in 一致 with your 協定 stuck in Trump Tower in 2015?' he followed up. 'Yes,' Pecker 答える／応じるd.

Those attacks （機の）カム at a time when Carson, who later made peace with Trump and became HUD 長官, was a 脅し.

'When Trump gets in the race he is the 支配的な 人物／姿／数字 and no one （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域s him in any 国家の 投票,' said Tyler. 'Where he was behind was in iowa and he was behind Carson. And that's when he was going after Carson,' he said.?

Trump 設立する ways to amplify the attacks on his biography that appeared in the Enquirer, 劇的な reenacting Carson's awakening story of trying to を刺す someone as an angry 青年 only to be 封鎖するd by a belt buckle in Iowa. He also called him a 'pathological liar' and compared him to?

'He just 派遣（する）d them all pretty much in order,' said Tyler of Trump. Rubio made a 'classic error.'

'明白に the Enquirer was running a lot of プロの／賛成の-Tump ニュース報道,' said 顧問 Alex Conant, who worked for Marco Rubio's （選挙などの）運動をする

'He?decided for 5 days he was going to go out and out Trump Trump. And he made a jackass of himself,' he said.?

Cruz 選ぶd to fight 支援する after the Enquirer ran a piece 告発する／非難するing him of having five 事件／事情／状勢s.??

Cruz 攻撃するing out at trump over the Heidi thing. You just didn't feel it,' he said.

The most 露骨な／あからさまの tells that the Enquirer was carrying water for Trump （機の）カム in its glowing headlines about him.?

'Donald Trump: The Man Behind the Legend,' was one. 'Donald Trump: Healthiest Individual Ever Elected,' ran another ? echoing the over-the-最高の，を越す 査定／評価 of his longtime personal 内科医 Dr. Harold Bornstein.

Headlines?on his 2016 Democratic 競争相手 Hillary Clinton were merciless. 'Hillary: 6 MONTHS TO LIVE!' said one, with a subhead 説 she had brain 癌. 'HILLARY FRAMED TRUMP FAMILY!' said another.

Pecker said Hillary running for 大統領，／社長 and '法案 Clinton's womanizing was the biggest, one of the biggest sales I had for the 国家の Enquirer and the other tabloids.'

He called it a '相互の 利益. It would help his （選挙などの）運動をする; it would also help me.' He 焦点（を合わせる）d on Hillary as an 'enabler' of 法案's womanizing, he said.

Asked how Trump felt about the ニュース報道, Pecker 答える／応じるd: 'He was pleased.'?

On redirect examination by Trump's lawyers Friday, he 認める that the paper had gone after the Clintons even before the secret 取引，協定 he 述べるd with Trump.?

Another former Trump 競争相手, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was nonplussed by the new 詳細（に述べる）s of the 2016 machinations that helped Trump take over the 共和国の／共和党の Party. 'I don't know anything about it,' he told DailyMail.com when asked about the Pecker bombshells from the 裁判，公判. 'I've paid 無 attention ? I think the whole 裁判，公判's a bunch of bull****,' he 追加するd.?