Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg made a sharp move by putting former National Enquirer chief David Pecker on the stand first to testify at former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, former court staffer and Lawfare correspondent Anna Bower explained on MSNBC Friday. The reason for that, she said, is that unlike a witness like Michael Cohen, Pecker remains friendly with the former president, and so it is much harder to spin his claims about Trump’s alleged “catch and kill” schemes to manipulate the 2016 election as false. “I wonder if, from the jury’s perspective, how mea…