Pecker bit off more than he could chew...
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“Several days ago, an AMI leader advised us that (National Enquirer publisher David Pecker) is ‘apoplectic’ about our investigation,” Bezos wrote on Medium.
“For reasons still to be better understood, the Saudi angle seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve.”
A few days later, Bezos claimed, a representative from AMI approached him and threatened to publish more of the text messages and photos “if we didn’t stop our investigation.”
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