Jeff Bezos showed American Media and the editors of the National Enquirer that he too is capable of releasing a bombshell expose on Thursday night.
The Amazon billionaire did this by not only releasing emails outlining an attempt by the company to halt his investigation into how American Media obtained his personal texts and photos, but by also revealing why he believed they were concerned about the probe.
'Several days ago, an AMI leader advised us that Mr. Pecker is “apoplectic” about our investigation. For reasons still to be better understood, the Saudi angle seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve,' wrote Bezos.
'A few days after hearing about Mr. Pecker’s apoplexy, we were approached, verbally at first, 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.'
On Friday, American Media responded to Bezos' post, saying in part: 'American Media believes fervently that it acted lawfully in the reporting of the story of Mr. Bezos. Further, at the time of the recent allegations made by Mr. Bezos, it was in good faith negotiations to resolve all matters with him.'
When asked if there was any Saudi involvement in the leaking of Bezos' texts on Friday, the Saudi Minister for Foreign Affairs Adel Jubeir said 'I doubt it,' and then a short while later said 'no.'
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Big money: David Pecker (above in 2014) has invested large amounts in the country of Saudi Arabia according to The New York Times
Prince: He also published a magazine that promoted the country and made no mention of its human rights violations called The New Kingdom early last year (Crown Prince in The New Kingdom above)
Smiles: The Crown Prince is believed by US Intelligence and most lawmakers to have ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a writer for the Bezos-owned Post (President Trump and the Crown Prince in March)
Pecker's ties to President Trump and Saudi Arabia were detailed in an March 2018 report in The New York Times.
It all began with Pecker being introduced to Kacy Grine, a French businessman with strong ties to Saudi Arabia.
More specifically, according to the report, Grine 'acts as an intermediary between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Western businesses.'
That introduction was orchestrated by talent agent Ari Emanuel, reported the Times.
That was a year before the affair between Bezos and Sanchez began, but it should be noted that Emanuel's business partner is Sanchez's estranged husband Patrick Whitesell.
Pecker and Grine reportedly discussed the business landscape in the Middle East, and soon the publisher began making investments in the region.
The two men grew close, and when Pecker was invited to see his friend in the White House in July of 2017 he brought along Grine as his guest.
After meeting with the president and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, the group went to dinner, according to the Times.
News of this meeting made its way back to Saudi Arabia, and Pecker was soon viewed as a businessman with an enormous amount of pull and power thanks to his ties to the current administration.
In September of that year, Pecker was in Saudi Arabia meeting with the Crown Prince.
That fact was ascertained thanks to a email exchange he had with Harvey Weinstein about purchasing Rolling Stone, a week before the disgraced mogul was outed as a sexual predator by the Times and New Yorker.
And in January, Pecker reportedly sought out Saudi investments in his attempt to purchase Time magazine per two sources.
That acquisition has always been a goal of Pecker's, and in 2013 Trump tweeted: 'David Pecker would be a brilliant choice as CEO of TIME Magazine — nobody could bring it back like David!'
Sneak peek: That magazine was sent to Saudi officials weeks before publication reported the AP, despite the country saying it knew nothing about the project (cover on left, Trump with Kacy Grine on right)
Mood: 'Several days ago, an AMI leader advised us that Mr. Pecker is “apoplectic” about our investigation,' said Jeff Bezos (above with Trump and Microsoft exec Satya Nadella in June 2017) in his post about American Media on Thursday
American Media even published a glossy magazine promoting the country that sold for $13.99 and was 100 pages long with no advertisements called A New Kingdom.
The Associated Press later reported that the magazine 'was quietly shared with officials at the Saudi Embassy in Washington almost three weeks before its publication.'
That magazine made no mention of the human right violations in Saudi Arabia, which have been most closely covered and detailed by the Bezos-owned Washington Post.
That coverage has amplified considerably ever since the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, who was a columnist for the Post.
Khashoggi was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 while trying to obtain paperwork for his upcoming marriage to a Turkish woman.
An investigation that was carried out by Turkish officials concluded that Khashoggi was killed by a team of 15 Saudis at the kingdom's diplomatic mission.
Saudi officials denied these reports for weeks, but after international outcry declared that the murder was the result of a 'rogue' operation.
At the same time, officials in Riyadh denied allegations that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in any way with the murder.
The New York Times reported on Thursday however that in a wire intercepted by America intelligence officials in 2017, the Crown Prince told an aide he would use 'a bullet' on the journalist if he did not return to the US and stop reporting on the country's violations of human rights.
US Intelligence believes that the Crown Prince ordered the murder, as do experts with the United Nations and a majority of both Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Washington DC.
President Trump meanwhile has declared very publicly that he stands by the Crown Prince.
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