Source: The Guardian
Source: The Guardian
Their relationship grew over the years with Pecker frequently visiting Mar-a-Lago and flying on Trump's private planes.
In 2013, Trump took to Twitter to write a slew of fawning tweets about Pecker, saying he should be put in charge of "Time" magazine.
Anthrax was found in AMI's Boca Raton, Florida offices and Pecker led the charge in representing the company in public appearances with federal investigators.
One of the tabloid's other notable political stories was its exhaustive investigation and original coverage of former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter months before Edwards admitted he had fathered a child with Hunter.
During the 2016 presidential election, AMI publications published several negative stories against Trump's main competitors: first Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, then former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The National Enquirer published a conspiracy theory that Cruz's father killed JFK, while some of the stories about Clinton pushed a theory that her health was in dramatic decline.
In August 2018, Pecker reportedly entered into an immunity deal with federal prosecutors who were looking into the payments AMI allegedly gave these women to kill their stories.
Bezos later wrote a blog post claiming that Pecker threatened to publish even more embarrassing information if he didn't drop his investigation into how the National Enquirer got the information about his affair.
The Guardian was the first to break the news, which was quickly confirmed in a statement released by UN experts. Motherboard obtained a copy of a forensic report from FTI Consulting showing how the phone was apparently hacked.
The National Enquirer report came out eight months later but cited texts that were sent days before the cellphone hack.
They first met in Saudi Arabia in 2017 and got together the following year when MBS visited New York. AMI even published a fawning issue about MBS during that visit.
It plays into a pattern of AMI's coverage that appeases Trump. The president also has an ongoing feud with Bezos and reacted gleefully to the report on Twitter.
Khashoggi was murdered in October 2018, allegedly on MBS's order. The crown prince has denied being directly involved in the murder.
Source: The Guardian
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