Newspaper chief was Trump's 'eyes and ears' and 'killed unfavourable stories about him', court hears by Md Shahid Talukder

A newspaper chief was Donald Trump's "eyes and ears" and killed unfavourable stories about him in the run-up to the 2016 election, a court has heard. David Pecker, the former boss of publisher AMI, took the stand as the first witness in the trial, as he described participating in a "catch and kill" scheme with Trump and Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen to bury unfavourable press coverage during the 2016 presidential campaign.