Ex-Enquirer Editor: Bezos Story Was 'Means Of Kissing And Making Up With' Trump

[kpete]

A former senior editor for the National Enquirer said Friday that he believes the tabloid’s story on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ infidelity was a way for the publishing company’s chief executive to make amends with President Trump.


Jerry George, who previous worked as Los Angeles bureau chief and a senior editor for the Enquirer, told CNBC that there was “somewhat of a falling out” between American Media Inc. CEO David Pecker and Trump after AMI reached a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors over the company’s decision to “catch and kill” Karen McDougal’s story about an alleged affair with Trump.

“The Bezos divorce ordinarily wouldn’t have been registered on the Enquirer Richter scale other than he is the archenemy of President Trump,” George told CNBC. “So after the Mueller investigation and after AMI became involved in the investigation, there was somewhat of a falling out. I think American Media and David Pecker tried to make amends and brought this divorce story to the President as a means of kissing and making up.”

Bezos published an extraordinary blog post Thursday in which he accused AMI of “blackmail and extortion,” claiming the publishing company threatened to expose additional intimate text messages between Bezos and his mistress if the Amazon exec wouldn’t drop his investigation into how the publisher obtained the images.


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/national-enquirer-donald-trump-jeff-bezos

‘It Will All Come Out Now’: CNN Source Expects More Enquirer Blackmail To Surface

A source familiar with the National Enquirer’s operations told CNN that Jeff Bezos’s explosive allegation of blackmail will lead to further exposure of similar threats made by the tabloid in the past.

“It will all come out now,” the source told CNN.


Indeed several reporters, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow, have alleged similar blackmail attempts since Bezos published a blog post exposing emails between himself and National Enquirer leadership threatening to publish unseemly photos of him if he didn’t back off his investigation of the tabloid.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cnn-source-bezos-surface-other-blackmail-it-will-all-come-out-now

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211795102

[CatMor]

1. This smells of trumps dirty little fingers being involved ..

and/or Donnie junior.

[democratisphere]

3. Sure does. Just reeks of it.

[Achilleaze]

2. republican morals, values, and ethics are formed of cesspool scrapings

The republican family-values role model Dirty Donny* has poisoned generations of young republicans. Disgraceful.

* aka KGOP republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Kushner

playing here? This will be the true end of the Crime Syndicate.

[spooky3]

5. I hope no one leaks photos of THAT. Nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. No kidding