A veteran tabloid publisher testified Tuesday that he pledged to be Donald Trump 's “eyes and ears" during his 2016 presidential campaign, recounting how he promised the thencandidate that he would help suppress harmful stories and even arranged to purchase a doorman's silence.

The testimony from David Pecker was designed to bolster prosecutors' assertions of a decadeslong friendship between Trump and the former publisher of the National Enquirer that culminated in an agreement to give the candidate's lawyer a headsup on negative tips and stories so they could be quashed.

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