Trump defense: National Enquirer’s moves in 2016 were good business, not a scheme

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NEW YORK — The former leader of the National Enquirer testified Friday he would have published a Trump Tower doorman’s story about Donald Trump having a child out of wedlock if it were true as defense attorneys cast a payoff to the man as an attempt to protect the tabloid’s reputation for scoops and not an election-related scheme. Mr. Trump’s lawyer Emil Bove told the ex-publisher, David Pecker, that refusing the story and letting the doorman sell it to some other paper “would not make business