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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWith the West Wing finally calm, Trump is contemplating a multi-front campaign against Jeff Bezos.
According to sources, Trump wants the Post Office to increase Amazons shipping costs. When Trump previously discussed the idea inside the White Hose, Gary Cohn had explained that Amazon is a benefit to the Postal Service, which has seen mail volume plummet in the age of e-mail. Trump doesnt have Gary Cohn breathing down his neck saying you cant do the Post Office shit, a Republican close to the White House said. He really wants the Post Office deal renegotiated. He thinks Amazons getting a huge fucking deal on shipping.
Even Trumps allies acknowledge that much of whats fueling Trumps rage toward Amazon is that Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, sources said. Trump doesnt like The New York Times, but he reveres it because its his hometown paper. The Washington Post, he has zero respect for, the Republican close to the White House said. While the Post says that Bezos has no involvement in newsroom decisions, Trump has told advisers he believes Bezos uses the paper as a political weapon. One former White House official said Trump looks at the Post the same way he looks at the National Enquirer. When Bezos says he has no involvement, Trump doesnt believe him. His experience is with the David Peckers of the world. Whether its right or wrong, he knows it can be done.
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Gobsmacking stuff!
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If he could, Donald Trump would jail Jeff Bezos and take his assets...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/trump-war-with-amazon-and-the-washington-post-is-personal
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)You would think that would be illegal
JHB
(37,161 posts)The names change, the guanopaty stays constant.
blake2012
(1,294 posts)Whose done this.
JHB
(37,161 posts)But all of them since Nixon have attacked the Post via proxies. Conservative columnists, editorial pages, pundits, "party mavericks", and ground-level ratfuckers.
They've been at war with the press in general and the Post specifically for decades. Trump's just using an air horn while his predecessors used dog whistles.
I didn't bring this up to minimize Trump, it's to not let the others off the hook.
blake2012
(1,294 posts)That shitty tiny fucker deserves to the worst possible punishment we can dole out for such violations of the US Constitution to which he swore an oath.
If Trump as president acting like a FUCKING DICTATOR!!!!!!!!is what America is now, then I fucking hate America.
FUCK YOU AMERICA to subjecting the world to this slimy toxic FUCK!!!!
msongs
(67,433 posts)spread it across the board to republicans in general. attacking trump is preaching to the choir and does no good beyond give him attention and bury the real problems
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,581 posts)the entity that delivers mail in the United States as the "Post Office."
It hasn't had that name in nearly fifty years. Its successor, the United States Postal Service, came into existence on July 1, 1971. I have a first day cover from that day.
Yes, I can see that Wikipedia says:
The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.
Maybe so, but trains don't "chug down the tracks" or go "clickety-clack" anymore either.
I don't expect Trump to know any better, but can't Vanity Fair afford a fact checker?
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)I'm sure Bezos will see this -- and I hope he takes swift, ameliorative action on this starting immediately. I have mixed feelings about Bezos and even Amazon, but THIS is --- as I said, outrageous.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)The Post is my local paper, and has been outstanding, if I need to say it again.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)If he sues Trump personally, there's no question who will have the better lawyers.