You live quite the sheltered life if you haven’t witnessed the feud between Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump, which has been going on for years. President Trump primary criticism is that Amazon is killing off retailers and jobs while not paying their fair share to the post office and IRS in the process.
Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt – many jobs being lost!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2017
The @washingtonpost, which loses a fortune, is owned by @JeffBezos for purposes of keeping taxes down at his no profit company, @amazon.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015
The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2017
That’s only half the reason Trump despises Bezos and Amazon. Besos is an obvious leftist who wields WAPO, as Trump puts it, like a ‘lobbyist’.
Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017
The Fake News Washington Post, Amazon’s “chief lobbyist,” has another (of many) phony headlines, “Trump Defiant As China Adds Trade Penalties.” WRONG! Should read, “Trump Defiant as U.S. Adds Trade Penalties, Will End Barriers And Massive I.P. Theft.” Typically bad reporting!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 5, 2018
The Washington Post is far more fiction than fact. Story after story is made up garbage – more like a poorly written novel than good reporting. Always quoting sources (not names), many of which don’t exist. Story on John Kelly isn’t true, just another hit job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 8, 2018
Any business person who achieves great success through capitalism then turns around to proliferate socialism can be considered a globalist. Aside from the unfair business practices and personal attacks, Trump probably despises Besos the most because the man is commie globalist.
So, was Trump behind the recent National Enquirer takedown of Bezos? Much of the leftist media thinks so.
Scarborough:
Joe Scarborough calls National Enquirer story about Jeff Bezos a "hit job" pic.twitter.com/UqtAm5JEVW
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) January 11, 2019
MSNBC Host:
Given everything we know about how Pecker's National Enquirer has functioned as essentially an arm of Trumpworld, this prompts some questions: https://t.co/aZI52OifyV
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 9, 2019
The implication, it would seem, is that Trump or Trump’s team hit Bezos, a perceived rival, through his longtime friend’s paper, the National Enquirer. Which: Who knows, and I won’t speculate. But let’s just say that it is not outside the long-established character of the National Enquirer to attempt to out a possibly cheating celebrity.
Unless some sort of hard evidence shows up it is impossible to say with 100% certainty that Trump didn’t influence the decision to go after Bezos. However, with the Enquirer’s history of hitting Trump’s enemies, it’s hard to believe otherwise. Did the fact that Bezos and Trump are mortal enemies not point the Enquirer in the direction of Bezos?
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos did NOT have a prenuptial agreement and they will file for divorce in Washington where community property rules apply – meaning income during marriage are split 50/50. The revelations/ammunition from the National Enquirer piece would make it a home run for Mrs. Bezos – she will more than likely walk away with half her husband’s fortune, about $70 billion. It would knock Jeff down from being the world’s richest man to about the fifth while making her the richest woman in the world.
All of this is yet to be decided, but it makes one wonder…was Sanchez worth $70 billion?
President Trump wished Bezos luck in his divorce, predicting the proceedings will be “a beauty.”
“I wish him luck,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday as he departed for a trip to the U.S. border with Mexico. “It’s going to be a beauty.”
