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The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow

Episode 8: The Love Child!

The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow

Pineapple Street Studios

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.810.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump’s alleged attempts to broker legally questionable deals to secure a political advantage are facing unprecedented scrutiny. But those deals didn’t start with Ukraine and Joe Biden. In the first of a two-part series about the sprawling saga of Trump’s alliance with the National Enquirer and its parent company, American Media Inc., we look at a secret deal between a presidential candidate and a tabloid empire—and the first instance during the campaign of a practice called “catch and kill.” It’s a stranger-than-fiction investigation of an unproven rumor and the very real transaction that buried it, featuring a former accountant named Pecker, a former bodyguard named Calamari, and the first extensive interview with the former Trump Tower doorman at the heart of the story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, just a warning. This episode has a lot of strong language.

0:16.8

Thank you, everybody. It's fall 2015.

0:22.1

All across the country, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is hosting these massive shocking rallies.

0:30.8

Protesters are getting shouted at, punched, thrown out.

0:34.4

Supporters are booing the media.

0:44.0

These rallies are loud. They're big and perhaps most surprisingly, they're growing.

0:51.0

Meanwhile, in a small hotel room in rural Pennsylvania,

0:55.2

Dino Sejuten was sitting next to a former cop getting hooked up to a polygraph machine.

1:00.8

So I remember I was talking to him, but he was hooked me up and I said,

1:03.3

what do you think about this whole situation? He says, I don't know, he goes, but a lot of people

1:07.2

haven't killed for a lot less. He said to me, I could you not?

1:12.8

We hooked me up. I did a whole bunch of questioning and after what he says, you did great.

1:17.4

You definitely were telling us true. You weren't lying.

1:19.9

This was a relief to Dino. He stood to make a lot of money based on the results of this

1:24.4

test because also sitting in the room with him was a reporter from the National Inquirer.

1:30.4

And she was really excited about it. And I sat there and spoke with her and she says,

1:35.4

I could probably get you 30 ran. You go from having talked to no one about this to an

1:41.4

inquirer reporter saying, you know, we can get you huge amounts of money for the story.

1:47.1

An ex-cop saying people have been killed for less. What were you thinking of all this?

1:52.3

It was getting a little scary, you know, to be honest with you, it was getting a little scary,

1:55.2

plus you know, out of family and stuff like that, you know. And were you conscious of

1:59.2

how politically significant this might become? Yeah, I 100% thought it was accurate that this person,

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