"At least if he wins, I'll be pardoned for electoral fraud"

A separate text message has Howard suggesting he might get pardoned if Trump won the 2016 presidential election. The text did not indicate that Trump had discussed any potential pardon with Howard.

“At least if he wins, I’ll be pardoned for electoral fraud,” Howard said in an offhand remark in one of the texts.

The issue came up as Judge Juan Merchan was considering whether to admit certain text messages between Howard and the relative as evidence to the jury. Merchan said he would exclude such text messages for the time being because it was a private conversation with a family member and not a business record. He also said he would be reading up on the case law on the issue.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4621518-national-enquirer-editor-pardoned-trump-2016-electoral-fraud/

There is a video on CNN news feed of the sketch of Trump shitting his pants when this evidence was revealed.

https://www.cnn.com/