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Bezos Says Enquirer
Not Another One: University Of Richmond
Threatened To Publish
Yearbook Shows Photo Of Students Dressed
In KKK Hoods And Black Friend Enjoying It
His Naked Selfies
This just in – another KKK photo has surfaced in a col- lege yearbook from the 1980s. Except, this time, the photo depicts five people dressed in Ku Klux Klan cos- tumes standing around a giddy Black man holding up a drink while pretending to be hung by a noose. The image has understandably sparked outrage.
According to the Rich- mond Times Dispatch, the man at the center of this of- fensive photo has been iden- tified as Michael Kizzie an alum of the University of Richmond.
In a phone interview with the publication on Thursday evening, Kizzie said he was unaware that the old photo was making the rounds until he was contacted by a re- porter for The Collegian, the University of Richmond’s student newspaper.
“I’m just getting over the shock and embarrassment of it right now, and that’s going to take a while,” admitted Kizzie, who now resides in a
A member of the Fraternal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan participates in the 11th Annual Nathan Bedford Forrest Birthday march
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday he was the target of “extortion and blackmail” by the publisher of the National Enquirer, which he said threatened to publish revealing personal photos of him unless he stopped investigating its ac- quisition of other private im- ages and messages and unless he declared its cover- age wasn’t politically moti- vated.
Bezos, who is also owner of The Washington Post, de- tailed his interactions with American Media Inc. in an extraordinary blog post Thursday on the Medium.com website.
After the tabloid pub- lished a story about his ex- tramarital affair last month, Bezos ordered a team of private investigators to get to the bottom of how the En- quirer obtained risque texts between the executive and former TV anchor Lauren Sanchez. Since then, there’s been a public rela- tions battle.
Bezos’ investigators have suggested the En- quirer’s coverage of his af- fair was politically motivated. Bezos has been the target of criticism from President Donald Trump over the Post’s crit- ical coverage of the White House, and AMI has admit- ted that it engaged in what’s known as “catch-and-kill” practices to help Trump be-
JEFF BEZOS
come president.
That admission was part
of a deal between AMI and federal prosecutors, who agreed to not pursue charges against the company for se- cretly assisting Trump’s campaign by paying $150,000 to a Playboy model for the rights to her story about an alleged affair with the then-candidate. The company then inten- tionally suppressed the story until after the 2016 election. Several days ago, someone at AMI told Bezos’ team that the company’s CEO David Pecker was “apoplectic” about Bezos’ investigation, Bezos said. AMI later approached Bezos’ representatives with an offer.
“They said they had more of my text messages and photos that they would pub- lish if we didn’t stop our in- vestigation,” Bezos wrote in the post.
Washington suburb.
The photo was included in
the school’s 1980 yearbook and school officials say they had no idea it had resurfaced on social media until Wednesday evening. The fol-
lowing day, University of Richmond President Ronald Crutcher released a statement calling snapshot “repulsive” and “antithetical to the values of the Univer- sity today.”
Former Obama Admin Official Calls Trump’s Physician A 'Disgrace'
A former health official from the Obama adminis- tration has blasted Donald Trump’s annual physical exam results over the week- end; even taking to Twitter to describe the report as a “dis- grace.”
After Trump’s thorough physical examination at Wal- ter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday, his personal physician Dr. Sean Conley declared in a statement that Trump “is in very good health and I antic- ipate he will remain so for the duration of his Presi- dency, and beyond.”
But Ronald Klain, who served as the U. S. Ebola Re- sponse Coordinator in 2014, was quick to fire back on so- cial media, noting: “No doc- tor can predict someone’s future health,” he tweeted in response to Conley’s state- ment on Saturday. “This is a disgrace to an office with a
President Trump serving Clemson State football team fast food at the White House dinner, yet we are to believe he’s in very good health.
great tradition of profession- alism. Just another institu- tion turned into a joke by a President determined to make anyone willing to sub- mit an instrument of his
lies.”
As reported by The Huffin-
gton Post, Conley’s health report on Trump gave no details on what the exam en- tailed.
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