evidence: Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial delivered a historic verdict this week, convicting the former president with 34 counts of falsifying business records while trying to cover up an effort to illegally influence the 2016 election. [...] But that’s exactly what Pecker did twice for the 2016 Trump campaign following the August 2015 meeting, according to prosecutors. AMI paid $30,000 for the rights to a story, which turned out to be false, from a former Trump Tower doorman regarding information that Trump allegedly had a child out of wedlock. [...] Would Pecker front the money for a third "catch and kill" payment for Trump? Not a chance, Pecker testified. "We already paid $30,000 to the doorman, we paid $150,000 to Karen McDougal, and I am not a bank. I am not paying out any further disbursements among us," Pecker said.