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I haven’t done any research but I wonder if trump has it in for Amazon since they have a monopoly that so far hasn’t been challenged much.

dragonwriter 7y ago
> I wonder if trump has it in for Amazon since they have a monopoly that so far hasn’t been challenged much. Trump rather openly has it in for Jeff Bezos because of the existence of WaPo, which has spilled over into attacks on Amazon more than once before.
- mikeyouse 7y ago
  Our president is a very public with his wild complaints there's no need to wonder why things happen: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1084627451983073280?lang=en https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/10846274519830732... > "So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post. Hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better & more responsible hands!" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-spites-jeff-bezos-hits-pause-on-10-billion-amazon-pentagon-contract https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-spites-jeff-be... > "Trump has privately bemoaned the windfall the Pentagon’s upgrade could represent for Amazon and Bezos, the New York Times reported Thursday, and has also raised questions about the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure deal in comments to the press. “They’re saying it wasn’t competitively bid,” Trump said in mid-July. “Great companies are complaining about it, so we’re going to take a look at it.”
ineedasername 7y ago
I don't think he cares about any issue of monopoly. It has much more to do with negative coverage of Trump in the Washington Post. It appears Bezos has a very hands-off approach in terms of editorial direction there, but Trump still blames him for the coverage.

dragonwriter 7y ago

> I wonder if trump has it in for Amazon since they have a monopoly that so far hasn’t been challenged much. Trump rather openly has it in for Jeff Bezos because of the existence of WaPo, which has spilled over into attacks on Amazon more than once before.

mikeyouse 7y ago
Our president is a very public with his wild complaints there's no need to wonder why things happen: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1084627451983073280?lang=en https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/10846274519830732... > "So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post. Hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better & more responsible hands!" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-spites-jeff-bezos-hits-pause-on-10-billion-amazon-pentagon-contract https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-spites-jeff-be... > "Trump has privately bemoaned the windfall the Pentagon’s upgrade could represent for Amazon and Bezos, the New York Times reported Thursday, and has also raised questions about the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure deal in comments to the press. “They’re saying it wasn’t competitively bid,” Trump said in mid-July. “Great companies are complaining about it, so we’re going to take a look at it.”

ineedasername 7y ago

I don't think he cares about any issue of monopoly. It has much more to do with negative coverage of Trump in the Washington Post. It appears Bezos has a very hands-off approach in terms of editorial direction there, but Trump still blames him for the coverage.