"Gavin De Becker, Bezos" security="" boss="" leading="" that="" investigation="" into="" the="" expos�,="" had="" previously="" said="" that="" 'strong="" leads="" point="" to="" political="" motives,'"="" Business="" Insider="" wrote.
"AMI's owner, David Pecker, is an ally of Trump and has previously engaged buying negative stories about the US president in order to bury them, a process called 'catch and kill,'" reports Business Insider. "As such, there has been some speculation that the National Enquirer story on Bezos is at least partially motivated by the long-running feud between Trump and Bezos, who owns The Washington Post."

In his lengthy post Bezos includes email correspondences from AMI representatives, which include the conditions with which they would not publish the photos.

"In the AMI letters I'm making public, you will see the precise details of their extortionate proposal' target='_blank'> They will publish the personal photos unless Gavin de Becker and I make the specific false public statement to the press that we 'have no knowledge or basis for suggesting that AMI's coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces,'" Bezos wrote.
"If we do not agree to affirmatively publicize that specific lie, they say they'll publish the photos, and quickly," he added. "And there's an associated threat: They'll keep the photos on hand and publish them in the future if we ever deviate from that lie."