Trump trial witness David Pecker was ‘beaten’ at home, Reuters reports | Wilnesh News

Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, who testified at Donald Trump’s criminal trial last month, was targeted in a fake emergency on the same day he testified in New York, police records seen by Reuters show.

The previously unreported April 25 “swatting” incident, in which a false report is filed to trigger a potentially dangerous response, is part of a wave of violent threats against U.S. officials and other public figures in recent years.

A man named “Jamal” claimed in an email to a local newspaper that he tied his wife in the basement and killed her lover. The address Jamal provided for the crime was Peck’s home in Greenwich, Connecticut.

“I messed up,” Jamal wrote. “Please help me.”

A Greenwich Police Department incident report states that when police were alerted to the email, they already knew Peck’s home address because he “was involved in a high-profile trial.”

“Inspections… showed there was no emergency,” the report, seen by Reuters through a records request, said. “This email is likely an agent attack.” Reuters could not confirm whether any arrests had been made.

It appears to be the first report of a person testifying in the Republican presidential candidate’s 12-day hush-money trial being beaten.

On the day of the assault attempt, Pecker testified that he had feuded with Trump and his former lawyers before the 2016 presidential election over who should buy the silence of women who said they had sexual encounters with Trump.

Police reports indicate the incident occurred at 4:44 p.m. and that Pike did not appear to be home.

Peck’s lawyer, Elkann Abramowitz, declined to comment.

Reuters reviewed several hoax emergency calls to authorities across the United States from a man named “Jamal” who called police to say he had killed his wife.

Greenwich police reported that “Jamal” sent the hoax email about Peck’s home to the address nobody@dizum.com, which cannot be traced.