This is a long article:
short version : they threaten to publish more pictures/text of him if the post does not back off looking into the first set of texts they published from him. And they also are not happy about the post looking into the murder of the Saudi journalist. And of course the enquirer is very tight with Trump who does not want to make the Saudis mad.
The current Huffington Post headline: Bezos Exposes Pecker. Guess they’ve waited a while to use that one.
Trump’s former dirt-rag proposes to blackmail the literal richest person on earth over, I guess, some sex things?
Heretofore I have not been a fan of this timeline, but the potential is starting to reveal itself.
It’s like living in a Richard Condon novel.
“I triple dog dare you to publish my dick pics.”
And the blackmailers are super-concerned that Saudis might be criticized for the mutilation-murder of a journalist.
Yeah, they’re definitely the heroes of the piece.
I’m not a lawyer, so can someone tell me, is the National Enquirer fucked?
IANAL, but IMO: yes, pretty well fucked. Proper fucked, even.
Holy crap. Ballsy move by Bezos. Kudos for standing up to scumbag bullies.
But, how fucked?
Fucked like, Bezos is going to own the Enquirer?
Fucked like, they’re going to prison?
Fucked like, Bezos is going to own the Enquirer, and they’re going to prison, and Bezos is going to buy the private prison they go to and install an Amazon shipping center there so they have to work for him?
For now, fucked seems good. Let this one breathe a while.
Anyone else keep hearing Lucious Fox saying to Pecker and/or Dildo: “Let me get this straight: you think that you have some leverage on Mr. Bezos, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, who owns and operates one of the largest and most respected media organizations on the planet known for exposing corruption, and your plan is to blackmail this person?”
Well, NOW I do! 
I was just about to post that, Bo.
Yes. In the voice of Morgan Freeman.
IANAL, and I have no idea how fucked. But I had to say I’m still laughing on account of #3.
So far as criminal proceedings, from what I’m reading…it’s complicated. I’ll go ahead and copy/paste what I posted elsewhere on the Board
Let’s see if I understand the timeline right.
On January 9, Bezos and his wife announced they were divorcing.
On January 10, the Enquirer published a whole bunch of photos and texts about Bezos having an affair.
And now, the Enquirer is suggesting that they haveeven more photos and texts.
WTF does the Enquirer think that kind of threat is going to do? Bezos and his wife are already divorcing, there have already been incriminating photos published and now Pecker and his gang somehow thinks they have leverage?
And to top it off, they effectively say IN WRITING, nice dick Bezos has there, too bad if we happened to show it to all our readers.
I don’t really know how much American Media, Inc. is worth, but last year they refinanced $460 million in debt, so I’m guessing they’re pretty heavily leveraged. OTOH we know that Jeff Bezos could spend**** one thousand times that much**** suing the publishers and he would still be the richest person in the world.
Bring it on.
I think that you got a zero wrong there. 1000 * $460M would be $460 billion, which appears to be a bit out of even Bezos’ range if his Wikipedia page is accurate.
Wow, this story is so non-small that even foxnews could not ignore it. It is even on their main page.