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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 09:00 PM Feb 2019

More National Enquirer blackmail bombshells predicted after alleged Bezos extortion bid massively

More National Enquirer blackmail bombshells predicted after alleged Bezos extortion bid massively backfires

BRAD REED 08 FEB 2019 AT 13:01 ET


David Pecker and Donald Trump (Screen cap).

The major scandal brewing around the National Enquirer’s apparent attempt to blackmail Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos may be about to get even more explosive.

“It will all come out now,” predicted the source, who also said that they were familiar with more people who had been subjected to treatment similar to what happened to Bezos.

So far, New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow, as well as MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, have all accused the National Enquirer of trying to blackmail them by vowing to publish damaging stories about them unless they agreed to their demands.

Scarborough and Brzezinski went so far as to accuse President Donald Trump of urging the Enquirer to threaten to publish information about their relationship unless they gave him more positive coverage, although the president denied these allegations.


https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/national-enquirer-blackmail-bombshells-predicted-failed-bezos-extortion-bid-massively-backfires/
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More National Enquirer blackmail bombshells predicted after alleged Bezos extortion bid massively (Original Post) workinclasszero Feb 2019 OP
rawstory lol nt msongs Feb 2019 #1
Kick and rec all Pecker threads. Kingofalldems Feb 2019 #2
One reason I think Trump may be behind the attempted coercion: it's going to hell. Shrike47 Feb 2019 #3
We're gonna need a bigger bucket of popcorn Danascot Feb 2019 #4
Yeah, this is one Twilight Zone Cha Feb 2019 #12
Trump with his right hand clamped on to Pecker Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2019 #5
Does that guy look like an older Gerlado BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #6
That was my first thought also. nt Ferrets are Cool Feb 2019 #7
they all look like used car salesman trying to add undercoat to the bill. nt yaesu Feb 2019 #8
Did anyone ever break a chair over Pecker's nose ? Haggis for Breakfast Feb 2019 #9
The National Enquirer Started Doing Shady Things Long Before This Jeff Bezos Scandal dalton99a Feb 2019 #10
Puppetrump "denies" Everything.. Cha Feb 2019 #11

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
3. One reason I think Trump may be behind the attempted coercion: it's going to hell.
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 10:40 PM
Feb 2019

Trump is such a petty asshole. He thinks things up without being able to foresee what the likely result is.

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)
10. The National Enquirer Started Doing Shady Things Long Before This Jeff Bezos Scandal
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 12:07 AM
Feb 2019
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/national-enquirer-jeff-bezos-donald-trump-history.html
The National Enquirer Started Doing Shady Things Long Before This Jeff Bezos Scandal
A brief timeline.
By Molly Olmstead
Feb 08, 20197:26 PM

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Donald Trump


Pecker’s fawning relationship with Donald Trump started long before the scheme to help his campaign.

As the New Yorker noted, Pecker created a custom-publishing division at Hachette when he was president, in which he would produce magazines for clients. He launched and produced Trump Style, a glossy magazine dedicated to Trump’s wealth and extravagance, for five years. Through it, he met, and came to admire, the future president.

While the coverage of Trump was consistently sycophantic over the years Pecker ran AMI—he made no secret of looking out for his friend—that devotion crossed into scandal in 2015, when he paid $30,000 to Dino Sajudin, a doorman at Trump World Tower, to stop him from going public with (somewhat dubious) allegations that Trump had had an affair in the 1980s that resulted in a child. AMI sources later told the New Yorker that the company had kept Cohen up to date with its investigation into Sajudin, and Cohen told the Associated Press that he had “discussed Sajudin’s story with the magazine when the tabloid was working on it.”

From there, Pecker and AMI would continue to do what they could to protect Trump’s reputation before the election.


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Cha

(297,295 posts)
11. Puppetrump "denies" Everything..
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 12:10 AM
Feb 2019

it means Less than Zero.

They have some real geniuses over there at AMI.. putting their extortion in writing for Jeff Bezos. I hope Joe and Mika have it in writing and Ronan Farrow, too.

We know trump danced on the grave of the divorce of Jeff and McKenzie Bezos.. in a tweet. I saw it on Rachel's show via youtube.

And, AMI is desperate to keep their extortion from being deemed "Political".



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