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The Amazon CEOs dick-pic-blackmail story about the National Enquirer might, in the end, involve President TrumpBy RYAN BORT FEBRUARY 8, 2019 11:52AM ET
Last month, the National Enquirer (owned by AMI) published a sprawling expose of Bezos affair with Lauren Sanchez, including salacious text messages, which ultimately led to the billionaires high-profile divorce. Bezos began to investigate how the Enquirer was able to obtain the text messages.
The tabloid didnt like this very much and, according to Bezos, threatened to release sensitive images, including nude photos of Bezos, unless he called off the investigation. Rather than capitulate, Bezos published over 2,000 words exposing the ploy Thursday night, heightening intrigue around AMIs below-board tactics and CEO David Peckers relationship with President Trump.
Bezos post is a bold, remarkably candid account of his entanglement with AMI. After the Enquirer published its investigation last month, Bezos told his longtime personal security expert, Gavin de Becker, to look into how AMI was able to obtain his text messages. Bezos writes that he was informed by AMI that Pecker was apoplectic that de Becker was on the case. A few days later, Bezos says he and his lawyers were told by AMI that if de Becker didnt stand down, the Enquirer would publish a trove of private photos they obtained, including a below-the-belt selfie of Bezos. AMI then put the threat in writing, which Bezos published in full.
Regardless of how AMI obtained Bezos text messages, if the emails published Thursday night are accurate, they offer a disturbing glimpse of how AMI operates: through blackmail, extortion, catch and kill and other backdoor tactics that toe the line of legality. Between Pecker, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, Trump sure seems to align himself with a lot of figures who toe that line.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jeff-bezos-enquirer-791863/
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)(and I'm going maybe pretty far fetched here) that they have threatened others in the past which is why the other repug senators are staying in the rump orbit so fixedly when they obviously didn't support him earlier and then all of a sudden they did.
This is serious stuff people...whoever owns AMI used it to threat members who rump didn't like/etc.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I would see the lurid screaming headlines from the National Enquirer spewing lies about President Obama.
For the entire election season they savaged Hillary with lurid headlines and photoshopped pics.
I was at the store today and noticed not one word about the pussy grabber/traitor in chief on their damned cover!
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)worse...someone is making up falsehoods to print this garbage and deliberately ruin people's lives.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)With this trashliner rag plus hate radio plus Fox noise 24/7/365 is it any wonder why this country is so fucked up and right on the edge of fascism?
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)and see if the NE, etc. were on sale at the grocery store and I didn't see any. Perhaps a good sign finally that this garbage rags are being pulled off the shelves since people aren't going for print rags anymore as more and more content is delivered via electronic means. My grandmother loved this rags, but she wasn't one for the political crap, she was more into news on celebrities and stuff (those on Hee Haw, etc.). She literally lived in a log cabin in the Ozarks...I liked them only for the news of the weird, UFOs, stuff like that, which now, you see mostly on You Tube (which does have some trashy crap on it too).
My only hope, like you I'm sure, is that enough people with even just common sense (don't need a 'fancy' college degree) to finally realize that rump is a joke, his actions and admin. are also mostly a joke. The poll numbers being close to 20% points against rump seem to support this thought.
TlalocW
(15,384 posts)Would work against the world's richest man? I'm not saying Bezos is a saint, but you come at him using dirty tricks, he has more than enough reason - and money - to make your life a bigger living hell than you could make his.
TlalocW
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)ms liberty
(8,580 posts)Who also owns one of the most important, influential newspapers on the planet. It really is amazingly stupid of them.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)And roped in Trump long ago.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Someone profits from all the lies from AMI.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)People who have been targeted by AMI to come forward.
Hassler
(3,379 posts)Starts a daily front page update on the treacherous, lying, corrupt killer prince of a "Sharia" oligarch state
pwb
(11,276 posts)They deserve it.
Cha
(297,305 posts)divorce because of being exposed by the enquirer.. and that the enquirer does Not want their extortion to be deemed POLITICAL!
That was genius of AMI to put it in writing!! lol Good job Bezos.
We suspected this about Pecker but now we know.
Thank You for this from Rolling Stone, working!
Srkdqltr
(6,297 posts)Don't understand. Bezos should buy the whole operation and bury it.
marlakay
(11,473 posts)Because his wife has been with him long time, they might have thought he would worry his stock would go down.
I am very happy he spoke out about them, wouldnt it be ironic if this took Trump down instead of Russia? Fits more with his pussy talk.