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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/08/jeff-bezos-blackmail-national-enquirer-trump
A sprawling international scandal involving Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon and world’s richest man, and allegations of “extortion and blackmail” by a tabloid publisher, threatened on Friday to also engulf Donald Trump as several key questions went unanswered.
Bezos alleges that David Pecker, owner of the National Enquirer and longtime friend of the US president, warned him he would publish revealing intimate photos of him unless he stopped investigating how the tabloid obtained text messages exposing his extramarital affair.
Pecker is chief executive of American Media Inc (AMI), which said on Friday that it “acted lawfully” in its reporting on Bezos and that it would “thoroughly investigate” his claims of blackmail and take “whatever appropriate action is necessary”.
But Pecker is also close to Trump, and AMI has admitted in the past that it engaged in a practice known as “catch-and-kill” – suppressing potentially damaging stories – to help the celebrity New York businessman become president. Trump has also waged a running of war of words against Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, which he frequently denounces as part of the “fake news media”.
The White House remained silent on the matter but two more threads raised questions about a potential association. In a TV interview, a Post reporter claimed that Bezos’s camp believes the National Enquirer’s actions might have been politically motivated and that a “government entity” might have got hold of his text messages, though which government might be involved was not indicated.
Bezos himself, laying out his allegations in an extraordinary 2,000-word blogpost, noted that Pecker and AMI have been “investigated for various actions they’ve taken on behalf of the Saudi Government”. He added that “for reasons still to be better understood, the Saudi angle seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve”.
It was not immediately clear why Bezos made the Saudi connection, but political commentators were quick to recall that Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of the Saudi government, was murdered at the country’s consulate in Istanbul, focusing often critical attention on Trump’s cosy relationship with the kingdom.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/08/jeff-bezos-blackmail-national-enquirer-trump
A sprawling international scandal involving Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon and world’s richest man, and allegations of “extortion and blackmail” by a tabloid publisher, threatened on Friday to also engulf Donald Trump as several key questions went unanswered.
Bezos alleges that David Pecker, owner of the National Enquirer and longtime friend of the US president, warned him he would publish revealing intimate photos of him unless he stopped investigating how the tabloid obtained text messages exposing his extramarital affair.
Pecker is chief executive of American Media Inc (AMI), which said on Friday that it “acted lawfully” in its reporting on Bezos and that it would “thoroughly investigate” his claims of blackmail and take “whatever appropriate action is necessary”.
But Pecker is also close to Trump, and AMI has admitted in the past that it engaged in a practice known as “catch-and-kill” – suppressing potentially damaging stories – to help the celebrity New York businessman become president. Trump has also waged a running of war of words against Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, which he frequently denounces as part of the “fake news media”.
The White House remained silent on the matter but two more threads raised questions about a potential association. In a TV interview, a Post reporter claimed that Bezos’s camp believes the National Enquirer’s actions might have been politically motivated and that a “government entity” might have got hold of his text messages, though which government might be involved was not indicated.
Bezos himself, laying out his allegations in an extraordinary 2,000-word blogpost, noted that Pecker and AMI have been “investigated for various actions they’ve taken on behalf of the Saudi Government”. He added that “for reasons still to be better understood, the Saudi angle seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve”.
It was not immediately clear why Bezos made the Saudi connection, but political commentators were quick to recall that Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of the Saudi government, was murdered at the country’s consulate in Istanbul, focusing often critical attention on Trump’s cosy relationship with the kingdom.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/08/jeff-bezos-blackmail-national-enquirer-trump
PEN America, which promotes freedom of expression, condemned AMI’s actions and Trump’s possible links. Suzanne Nossel, its chief executive, said: “Coming against the backdrop of credible reports of past coordination between President Donald Trump and National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, these revelations assume a truly sinister cast.
“If indeed AMI’s threats and acts of intimidation toward the press were coordinated with the president or done at his request, it would represent a perilous escalation of the president’s war on the first amendment and the role of a free press. Congress should act immediately to investigate these serious allegations.”
The intrigue, which has shaken the worlds of New York media and Washington politics, began on 9 January when Bezos announced on Twitter that he was getting divorced from his wife of 25 years, novelist MacKenzie Bezos.
A day later, the National Enquirer published a story about the billionaire Amazon chief executive’s relationship with Lauren Sanchez, a former TV anchor who is also married. It reported that Bezos sent “sleazy text messages and gushing love notes” to Sanchez. He wrote: “I am crazy about you. All of you.”
Trump did not miss the chance to gloat over his perceived adversary and praise the Enquirer. He tweeted: “So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post. Hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better & more responsible hands!”
Bezos, meanwhile, hired a team of private investigators to find out how the tabloid acquired the texts and photos. Bezos writes in his blogpost on Medium.com that he learned Pecker was “apoplectic” about the investigation. AMI later approached Bezos’s representatives with an offer. “They said they had more of my text messages and photos that they would publish if we didn’t stop our investigation,” he wrote.
Bezos also wrote that this week, the tabloid’s editor, Dylan Howard, emailed a lawyer for Bezos’s longtime security consultant to describe photos including a “below the belt selfie” of Bezos and him in tight boxer shorts and wearing only a towel, as well as several revealing photos of Sanchez.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/08/jeff-bezos-blackmail-national-enquirer-trump
PEN America, which promotes freedom of expression, condemned AMI’s actions and Trump’s possible links. Suzanne Nossel, its chief executive, said: “Coming against the backdrop of credible reports of past coordination between President Donald Trump and National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, these revelations assume a truly sinister cast.
“If indeed AMI’s threats and acts of intimidation toward the press were coordinated with the president or done at his request, it would represent a perilous escalation of the president’s war on the first amendment and the role of a free press. Congress should act immediately to investigate these serious allegations.”
The intrigue, which has shaken the worlds of New York media and Washington politics, began on 9 January when Bezos announced on Twitter that he was getting divorced from his wife of 25 years, novelist MacKenzie Bezos.
A day later, the National Enquirer published a story about the billionaire Amazon chief executive’s relationship with Lauren Sanchez, a former TV anchor who is also married. It reported that Bezos sent “sleazy text messages and gushing love notes” to Sanchez. He wrote: “I am crazy about you. All of you.”
Trump did not miss the chance to gloat over his perceived adversary and praise the Enquirer. He tweeted: “So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post. Hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better & more responsible hands!”
Bezos, meanwhile, hired a team of private investigators to find out how the tabloid acquired the texts and photos. Bezos writes in his blogpost on Medium.com that he learned Pecker was “apoplectic” about the investigation. AMI later approached Bezos’s representatives with an offer. “They said they had more of my text messages and photos that they would publish if we didn’t stop our investigation,” he wrote.
Bezos also wrote that this week, the tabloid’s editor, Dylan Howard, emailed a lawyer for Bezos’s longtime security consultant to describe photos including a “below the belt selfie” of Bezos and him in tight boxer shorts and wearing only a towel, as well as several revealing photos of Sanchez.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/08/jeff-bezos-blackmail-national-enquirer-trump
According to the emails released by Bezos, AMI offered a formal deal: the tabloid would agree to not publish the photos if Bezos and his investigators would release a public statement “affirming that they have no knowledge or basis” to suggest the Enquirer’s coverage was “politically motivated or influenced by political forces”.
But in a move that has earned widespread public praise, Bezos said he decided to publish the emails sent to his team “rather than capitulate to extortion and blackmail”, despite the “personal cost and embarrassment they threaten”.
Bezos blackmail claims add new twist to tale of Trump, Russia and the media
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“Of course I don’t want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks, and corruption. I prefer to stand up, roll this log over, and see what crawls out.”
Other journalists appeared to back Bezos’s allegations about AMI tactics. Ronan Farrow, an investigative reporter at HBO and the New Yorker, tweeted: “I and at least one other prominent journalist involved in breaking stories about the National Enquirer’s arrangement with Trump fielded similar ‘stop digging or we’ll ruin you’ blackmail efforts from AMI.”
Pecker and AMI have a storied relationship with Trump, though it was said to have cooled in recent months. The company recently admitted secretly aiding Trump’s election campaign by paying $150,000 to a Playboy model for the rights to her story about an alleged affair with the then candidate. AMI then suppressed the story until after the 2016 election.
The justice department agreed last September to a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, which requires the company and some top executives, including Pecker and Howard, to cooperate with authorities.
But in the wake of the new revelations the Associated Press has reported that federal investigators are now looking at whether the recent revelations mean AMI has violated that agreement. The agreement requires AMI commit no crimes for three years.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/08/jeff-bezos-blackmail-national-enquirer-trump
According to the emails released by Bezos, AMI offered a formal deal: the tabloid would agree to not publish the photos if Bezos and his investigators would release a public statement “affirming that they have no knowledge or basis” to suggest the Enquirer’s coverage was “politically motivated or influenced by political forces”.
But in a move that has earned widespread public praise, Bezos said he decided to publish the emails sent to his team “rather than capitulate to extortion and blackmail”, despite the “personal cost and embarrassment they threaten”.
Bezos blackmail claims add new twist to tale of Trump, Russia and the media
Read more
“Of course I don’t want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks, and corruption. I prefer to stand up, roll this log over, and see what crawls out.”
Other journalists appeared to back Bezos’s allegations about AMI tactics. Ronan Farrow, an investigative reporter at HBO and the New Yorker, tweeted: “I and at least one other prominent journalist involved in breaking stories about the National Enquirer’s arrangement with Trump fielded similar ‘stop digging or we’ll ruin you’ blackmail efforts from AMI.”
Pecker and AMI have a storied relationship with Trump, though it was said to have cooled in recent months. The company recently admitted secretly aiding Trump’s election campaign by paying $150,000 to a Playboy model for the rights to her story about an alleged affair with the then candidate. AMI then suppressed the story until after the 2016 election.
The justice department agreed last September to a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, which requires the company and some top executives, including Pecker and Howard, to cooperate with authorities.
But in the wake of the new revelations the Associated Press has reported that federal investigators are now looking at whether the recent revelations mean AMI has violated that agreement. The agreement requires AMI commit no crimes for three years.
National Inquirer will fold because of this....bet on it !
Can't see Bezos rolling over, on the contrary I think he's now on a mission.
You'd think with all his money he could afford a decent meal.
what is it with people and their dick pics anyway? I don't get it. if it were me with a 120 or 60 billion and some lady was inclined to see my penus I would just go over there and show it to her
I don't think you'd have to go anywhere....there would be a queue 10 times round the block waiting to praise it's magnificence !
It seems you made quite an impression on Leopard, nofx!
That's a shame, there's a queue 10 times round the block waiting to praise its magnificence!
Poodle Parlour managing....'ardest game in a world.....!
Could mean the end of Trump !
End of Trump ?
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/09/jeff-bezos-trump-national-enquirer-amazon-david-pecker
Trump, 'blackmail' and a Pecker: Bezos delivers scandal with something for everyone
This convoluted tale – with lurid pics, private investigators and, naturally, Trump – seems to have captured the spirit of the age
Another Hollywood awards ceremony passed with the usual red carpet fashion show, earnest acceptance speeches and mingling of the rich and famous. So few found it remarkable when billionaire Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, was photographed at an after-party with TV presenter and helicopter pilot Lauren Sanchez.
Jeff Bezos 'blackmail' claim puts focus on National Enquirer links to Trump
But just a few days after the Golden Globes, it would become clear this picture was a crucial clue to the unravelling of Bezos’s 25-year marriage – and a tangled web of intrigue now spanning the worlds of Washington politics, New York tabloids and Los Angeles showbusiness.
Add into the mix this week some lurid photographs, allegations of blackmail and a put-it-all-out-there blogpost by Bezos, and the man who gave the world “The Everything Store” had delivered “The Everything Scandal” – possibly all the way to the doorstep of the American president and his allies in Saudi Arabia.
In an era when every controversy seems to have a connection to Donald Trump, there was of course a connection to him. Speculation was rife that the world’s most powerful man had weaponized a supermarket tabloid to go after the world’s richest. Trump, 72, and 55-year-old Bezos do, after all, have a keen rivalry, at least in the president’s mind.
Bezos, who founded Amazon as an online bookseller in 1994 and bought the Washington Post in 2013, is now worth $136bn, a fortune that dwarfs Trump’s. For three years Trump has attacked him on Twitter, spuriously accusing Amazon of dodging taxes at the expense of the post office and the Post of trafficking in “fake news”. But Bezos has kept his cool and refused to take the bait, probably riling the president even more.
Bezos’s personal life came under unwelcome scrutiny a month ago in almost Trumpian style, however. On 9 January, three days after the Golden Globes, he used Twitter to announce his divorce from novelist MacKenzie Bezos. The following day, the National Enquirer tabloid revealed Bezos’s extramarital affair with Sanchez, 49, a former host of So You Think You Can Dance? now in the process of divorcing her husband.
In coverage sprawling across 11 pages, the Enquirer said its reporters followed Bezos and Sanchez “across five states and 40,000 miles” and “tailed them in private jets, swanky limos, helicopter rides, romantic hikes, five-star hotel hideaways, intimate dinner dates and ‘quality time’ in hidden love nests”. The tabloid reported that Bezos sent “sleazy text messages and gushing love notes” to Sanchez.
It is safe to assume that no previous US president would have passed comment. But Trump could not conceal his sense of schadenfreude. “So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post,” he gloated on Twitter. “Hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better & more responsible hands!”
That was not the end, however.
With almost unlimited resources at his disposal, Bezos hired a crack team of private investigators to find out how the Enquirer had got its hands on his text messages and photos. David Pecker, owner of the Enquirer and longtime friend of Trump, was “apoplectic” when he learned the tables had been turned, according to Bezos’s blogpost, and threatened to publish more material unless Bezos called his investigators off.
Enquirer editor Dylan Howard allegedly sent an email warning of nine intimate images in excruciating detail. They included a “below the belt selfie — otherwise colloquially known as a dick pick”.
By Bezos’s account, Pecker’s team made an offer: the Enquirer would agree to not publish the photos if Bezos and his investigators released a public statement “affirming that they have no knowledge or basis” to suggest the tabloid’s coverage was “politically motivated or influenced by political forces”.
Bezos announced he was divorcing his wife McKenzie after 25 years of marriage.
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Bezos announced he was divorcing his wife McKenzie after 25 years of marriage. Photograph: Jerod Harris/Getty Images
Bezos refused and punched the bully instead. “Of course I don’t want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks, and corruption,” he writes. “I prefer to stand up, roll this log over, and see what crawls out.”
His blogpost, published on the neutral Medium website under the title “No thank you, Mr Pecker”, flipped the script and earned widespread approbation. Journalist Carl Bernstein, who reported on the Watergate saga, told CNN that Bezos “in this instance has acted heroically, in terms of establishing that neither he nor the Post will be intimidated”. Nicholas Thompson, editor of Wired, tweeted: “Amazing that the National Enquirer has been so repulsive that the whole internet is rooting for a billionaire who got busted for an affair.”
Others were awed by the epic, multi-layered nature of the scandal and how it captures the spirit of the times. Robinson Meyer wrote in the Atlantic magazine: “In a little more than 2,000 words, Bezos seemed to rip every headline out of the newspaper and bind them in an eternal neon braid: the mighty power of billionaires, the immiseration of American journalism, the thin smudge of porniness that smartphones have layered onto reality — all of that, and President Donald Trump (who is a close friend of David Pecker, AMI’s chief executive), and the corruption and journalist-murdering malice of the Saudi government, which Bezos alleges is wrapped up in his story ‘for reasons still to be better understood.’”
The trail of crumbs to Trump and Saudi Arabia is circumstantial and tantalising. The Enquirer has long engaged in “catch-and-kill” agreements on behalf of the New York property tycoon, paying for negative stories to ensure they never see the light of day.
These included Trump’s alleged affairs with adult film actor Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen MacDougal. Parent company American Media Inc (AMI), admitted criminal conduct last year in a plea deal with federal prosecutors, receiving immunity in exchange for giving evidence against Trump’s legal fixer Michael Cohen. Prosecutors are now reportedly looking at whether the Enquirer’s feud with Bezos violated the cooperation and non-prosecution agreement.
Jeff Bezos: the Amazon billionaire and Trump bete noire
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Meanwhile, Bezos suggested in his blogpost that the Washington Post’s reporting on the murder of its columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government, may have made him a target of Pecker. AMI produced a glossy pro-Saudi tabloid, he points out.
He also noted that Pecker and AMI have been “investigated for various actions they’ve taken on behalf of the Saudi government” and adds cryptically that “for reasons still to be better understood, the Saudi angle seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve”. Trump has also been criticized for his cosy relationship with the Saudi government and failure to demand answers about Khashoggi’s death.
On Friday AMI said its board of directors ordered a prompt and thorough investigation and will take “whatever appropriate action is necessary.” Adel al-Jubeir , the Saudi foreign minister, told CBS’s Face the Nation programme: “This sounds to me like a soap opera. I’ve been watching it on television and reading about it in the paper. This is something between the two parties. We have nothing to do with it.”
But as of Friday night, there had been an uncharacteristic response from the White House: silence.
End of Trump ?
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/09/jeff-bezos-trump-national-enquirer-amazon-david-pecker
Trump, 'blackmail' and a Pecker: Bezos delivers scandal with something for everyone
This convoluted tale – with lurid pics, private investigators and, naturally, Trump – seems to have captured the spirit of the age
Another Hollywood awards ceremony passed with the usual red carpet fashion show, earnest acceptance speeches and mingling of the rich and famous. So few found it remarkable when billionaire Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, was photographed at an after-party with TV presenter and helicopter pilot Lauren Sanchez.
Jeff Bezos 'blackmail' claim puts focus on National Enquirer links to Trump
But just a few days after the Golden Globes, it would become clear this picture was a crucial clue to the unravelling of Bezos’s 25-year marriage – and a tangled web of intrigue now spanning the worlds of Washington politics, New York tabloids and Los Angeles showbusiness.
Add into the mix this week some lurid photographs, allegations of blackmail and a put-it-all-out-there blogpost by Bezos, and the man who gave the world “The Everything Store” had delivered “The Everything Scandal” – possibly all the way to the doorstep of the American president and his allies in Saudi Arabia.
In an era when every controversy seems to have a connection to Donald Trump, there was of course a connection to him. Speculation was rife that the world’s most powerful man had weaponized a supermarket tabloid to go after the world’s richest. Trump, 72, and 55-year-old Bezos do, after all, have a keen rivalry, at least in the president’s mind.
Bezos, who founded Amazon as an online bookseller in 1994 and bought the Washington Post in 2013, is now worth $136bn, a fortune that dwarfs Trump’s. For three years Trump has attacked him on Twitter, spuriously accusing Amazon of dodging taxes at the expense of the post office and the Post of trafficking in “fake news”. But Bezos has kept his cool and refused to take the bait, probably riling the president even more.
Bezos’s personal life came under unwelcome scrutiny a month ago in almost Trumpian style, however. On 9 January, three days after the Golden Globes, he used Twitter to announce his divorce from novelist MacKenzie Bezos. The following day, the National Enquirer tabloid revealed Bezos’s extramarital affair with Sanchez, 49, a former host of So You Think You Can Dance? now in the process of divorcing her husband.
In coverage sprawling across 11 pages, the Enquirer said its reporters followed Bezos and Sanchez “across five states and 40,000 miles” and “tailed them in private jets, swanky limos, helicopter rides, romantic hikes, five-star hotel hideaways, intimate dinner dates and ‘quality time’ in hidden love nests”. The tabloid reported that Bezos sent “sleazy text messages and gushing love notes” to Sanchez.
It is safe to assume that no previous US president would have passed comment. But Trump could not conceal his sense of schadenfreude. “So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post,” he gloated on Twitter. “Hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better & more responsible hands!”
That was not the end, however.
With almost unlimited resources at his disposal, Bezos hired a crack team of private investigators to find out how the Enquirer had got its hands on his text messages and photos. David Pecker, owner of the Enquirer and longtime friend of Trump, was “apoplectic” when he learned the tables had been turned, according to Bezos’s blogpost, and threatened to publish more material unless Bezos called his investigators off.
Enquirer editor Dylan Howard allegedly sent an email warning of nine intimate images in excruciating detail. They included a “below the belt selfie — otherwise colloquially known as a dick pick”.
By Bezos’s account, Pecker’s team made an offer: the Enquirer would agree to not publish the photos if Bezos and his investigators released a public statement “affirming that they have no knowledge or basis” to suggest the tabloid’s coverage was “politically motivated or influenced by political forces”.
Bezos announced he was divorcing his wife McKenzie after 25 years of marriage.
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Bezos announced he was divorcing his wife McKenzie after 25 years of marriage. Photograph: Jerod Harris/Getty Images
Bezos refused and punched the bully instead. “Of course I don’t want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks, and corruption,” he writes. “I prefer to stand up, roll this log over, and see what crawls out.”
His blogpost, published on the neutral Medium website under the title “No thank you, Mr Pecker”, flipped the script and earned widespread approbation. Journalist Carl Bernstein, who reported on the Watergate saga, told CNN that Bezos “in this instance has acted heroically, in terms of establishing that neither he nor the Post will be intimidated”. Nicholas Thompson, editor of Wired, tweeted: “Amazing that the National Enquirer has been so repulsive that the whole internet is rooting for a billionaire who got busted for an affair.”
Others were awed by the epic, multi-layered nature of the scandal and how it captures the spirit of the times. Robinson Meyer wrote in the Atlantic magazine: “In a little more than 2,000 words, Bezos seemed to rip every headline out of the newspaper and bind them in an eternal neon braid: the mighty power of billionaires, the immiseration of American journalism, the thin smudge of porniness that smartphones have layered onto reality — all of that, and President Donald Trump (who is a close friend of David Pecker, AMI’s chief executive), and the corruption and journalist-murdering malice of the Saudi government, which Bezos alleges is wrapped up in his story ‘for reasons still to be better understood.’”
The trail of crumbs to Trump and Saudi Arabia is circumstantial and tantalising. The Enquirer has long engaged in “catch-and-kill” agreements on behalf of the New York property tycoon, paying for negative stories to ensure they never see the light of day.
These included Trump’s alleged affairs with adult film actor Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen MacDougal. Parent company American Media Inc (AMI), admitted criminal conduct last year in a plea deal with federal prosecutors, receiving immunity in exchange for giving evidence against Trump’s legal fixer Michael Cohen. Prosecutors are now reportedly looking at whether the Enquirer’s feud with Bezos violated the cooperation and non-prosecution agreement.
Jeff Bezos: the Amazon billionaire and Trump bete noire
Read more
Meanwhile, Bezos suggested in his blogpost that the Washington Post’s reporting on the murder of its columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government, may have made him a target of Pecker. AMI produced a glossy pro-Saudi tabloid, he points out.
He also noted that Pecker and AMI have been “investigated for various actions they’ve taken on behalf of the Saudi government” and adds cryptically that “for reasons still to be better understood, the Saudi angle seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve”. Trump has also been criticized for his cosy relationship with the Saudi government and failure to demand answers about Khashoggi’s death.
On Friday AMI said its board of directors ordered a prompt and thorough investigation and will take “whatever appropriate action is necessary.” Adel al-Jubeir , the Saudi foreign minister, told CBS’s Face the Nation programme: “This sounds to me like a soap opera. I’ve been watching it on television and reading about it in the paper. This is something between the two parties. We have nothing to do with it.”
But as of Friday night, there had been an uncharacteristic response from the White House: silence.
Pecker another one of Trump's mobsters being measured for an orange jumpsuit. 
this pecker dude is really up to his neck in it. have you noticed how badly it goes for those that get
involved with this trump guy???
involved with this trump guy???
end of Trumpnot the first time in two years that phrase has been branded about on here.
not the first time in two years that phrase has been branded about on here.
Guardian having a go at Trump. Has this happened before?
Pecker, great name. Should marry someone called Wiener and have a nice double barreled name for their kids.
"Pecker-wiener".
"Pecker-wiener".
He married Isla Wood and they have a son, Woody who is into drill music.
Gets a bit of hammering at school !
Gets a bit of hammering at school !
Did you have anything to do with getting Baphornet and moisok banned, The Leopard?
Reported that info on Bezos was leaked by Michael Sanchez to the National Enquirer. Sanchez, a Trump supporter and friend of Roger Stone is Bezos' mistresses brother.
Feb 10, 2019 -- 11:37PM, trilby22 wrote:
Did you have anything to do with getting Baphornet and moisok banned, The Leopard?
I repeat, no ( for passing readers benefit )....as I told you on another thread....and explained why.
Get with the times Spotty. That's yesterday's news.
Who's on QT this week?
Who's on QT this week?
Feb 12, 2019 -- 10:31AM, cooperman wrote:
Reported that info on Bezos was leaked by Michael Sanchez to the National Enquirer. Sanchez, a Trump supporter and friend of Roger Stone is Bezos' mistresses brother.
The Trump Junta see Bezos and The Washington Post as a major danger to Trump's survival so will attack him in any way possible.
Feb 12, 2019 -- 3:50PM, trilby22 wrote:
Get with the times Spotty. That's yesterday's news.Who's on QT this week?
Farage, Corbyn, Anna Soubry, Nish Kumar and Conor McGregor.
Is that the Nishnosh bloke who gets mentioned in here?
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