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Trump Directs Government to Punish Newspaper Owner
August 2, 2019 at 3:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 181 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/02/trump-directs-government-to-punish-newspaper-owner/
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Jonathan Chait: When he was running for president, Donald Trump threatened to single out Amazon for retribution. He is carrying out that threat. The White House has ordered the Defense Department to reexamine a $10 billion cloud-computing contract because of concerns that the deal would go to Amazon, the Washington Postreports.
Its not yet possible to prove that Trump is directing this decision as punishment for Jeff Bezoss ownership of the Post. And proof may never be found. Trumps Mafia style of management, which the Mueller report chronicles, is designed to avoid leaving a paper trail that would incriminate the boss. (The report shows Trump, among other things, using buffers to carry out his illegal orders and chiding his lawyer for taking notes.)
But Trump is also not smart or subtle enough to leave any doubt about his intentions. He has made it abundantly clear both that the Post is the source of his hatred of Amazon, and that his policy grounds for punishing Amazon are pretexts.
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A HERETIC I AM
(24,372 posts)Careful which hornets nest you poke, dumbass.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)onenote
(42,724 posts)enough
(13,260 posts)stopdiggin
(11,331 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)Ya can only hope that they both lose.
Kid Berwyn
(14,933 posts)One more to what is a very long list that includes treason.
Volaris
(10,273 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,853 posts)Freedom of the press may be guaranteed in the Constitution. But a plurality of Republicans want to give President Trump the authority to close down certain news outlets, according to a new public opinion survey conducted by Ipsos and provided exclusively to The Daily Beast.
So that 43% of republicans would approve a democrat shutting down Fox news?
moondust
(20,001 posts)What Would Pooty Do?
Dumpy, picking up all the tricks.