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Bezos not world’s brightest man

- Adriana COHEN Adriana Cohen is a nationally syndicated columnist, Herald Radio host and tv commentato­r. See adrianacoh­en.com

They say love is blind. Perhaps that could explain how a super smart businessma­n like Jeff Bezos — founder of Amazon — could be so dumb when it comes to affairs of the heart that landed the love-drunk Washington Post owner at the epicenter of a tawdry sex scandal.

After Bezos tweeted last Wednesday his 25 year old marriage had gone bust, racy sexts between him and his paramour went public — in excruciati­ng detail — causing a salacious spectacle on a level only Tiger Woods and Donald Trump can appreciate.

Some of the steamy sexts and nude pics Bezos reportedly sent his mistress were so “explicit” even the National Enquirer — who was staking out the lovebirds for months — couldn’t publish them.

That’s a major rookie mistake by the $137 billion-Bezos — sexting erotic pics and other romantic missives that ended up in the hands of the Enquirer. He can thank his own carelessne­ss and his loose-lipped lover who reportedly shared them with others.

Talk about embarrassi­ng. The richest man in the world and father of four spent his week not overseeing those brown boxes landing on our doorsteps, but having his customers read, “I love you, alive girl. I will show you with my body, and my lips and my eyes, very soon,” in media outlets worldwide.

Shouldn’t a man of his stature know better? Not only did he get burned by his dopey lover who violated his privacy by sharing his heartfelt messages, he also made himself vulnerable to criminals who could’ve hacked his phone and blackmaile­d him given his vast fortune.

Clearly he wasn’t thinking while seducing the wife of a friend for reportedly the past nine months.

Yet this is the same “bad boy” whose newspaper, the Washington Post, has relentless­ly published nonstop hit pieces about President Trump the past few years, calling him every name in the book — including “amoral.”

I guess it takes one to know one.

 ?? GETTY IMAGES FILE ?? BAD MOVE: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, with his wife Mackenzie in September in Washington, should have known better when he sent racy text messages to another woman while still married to his wife.
GETTY IMAGES FILE BAD MOVE: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, with his wife Mackenzie in September in Washington, should have known better when he sent racy text messages to another woman while still married to his wife.
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