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Well the President is also flat out wrong when he calls it the "Amazon Washington Post" because Amazon doesn't own the Washington Post. Perhaps we should fix the President's blatant misinformation ability before we go preventing someone from founding/buying/inheriting particular businesses.

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Jeff is CEO of Amazon and owns the Post. While the President is technically inaccurate, I'm not sure he is de facto inaccurate.

Facts or accuracy are not a strong suit of the current guy in office. /s

Also, he doesn't seam to care much for independent journalism... which WaPo is. Anytime Amazon is discussed in the WaPo, they do mention in interest of disclosure that Jeff Bezos is the owner of WaPo and Amazon.

Got karma to burn so why not.

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Remember Trump also accused Amazon of "not paying internet taxes," so facts are not his strong suit. (Although he is correct only in that there is no such thing as internet taxes)

well basically wasn't that one of his better political sentences? Saying something like "x does not paying internet taxes", could've come from every political person, since this sentence is extremly clever and not incorrect at all. amazon did in fact not pay internet taxes. (because they don't exists) Isn't that speech which every politican uses?

I think the President is committing fraud by implying as President to the American public that AMZN holds an asset that it does not. How’s that for technical accuracy?

Have you always been this literal minded? It's simplistic to think that AMZN is hermetically sealed off from the WaPo because legally the two entities have nothing to do with each other. Trump's insinuation isn't as strong as what you claim it is. He is at most suggesting that WaPo may be serving AMZN interests in a de facto, not de jure, capacity. Frankly, I think that he's just using Amazon as a symbol for Bezos because people know what Amazon is and what it means for businesses. They don't necessarily know who Bezos is. It allows him to associate whatever negative associations Amazon may have in his electorate with the WaPo. On the other hand, it may have been as simple as a humorous quip. In any case, you should relax.

Let’s see... the President tweeted several times last night about Amazon and WaPo. No, it doesn’t look like a humorous quip to me. It looks like he knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s inventing a narrative and using that nonsense to interfere with an acquisition.

Trump doesn't get the benefit of the doubt, here. He's long, long, long since lost that.

Are you sure you aren't the one spewing blatant misinformation? The CEO (and founder) of Amazon owns the WaPo. Although, WaPo isn't owned by Amazon it doesn't take someone of extraordinary intelligence to come to the conclusion that the WaPo and Amazon have a special relationship, considering how they are both managed by the same person.

I’m 100% sure I’m not spewing misinformation, thank you. Amazon is a publicly traded company and WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos, most literally NOT Amazon.

Yes, technically true, but it probably was intentional. Think of the alternatives. The Bezos Post? The Bezos Washington Post? Think of his audience. Most people know what Amazon is, not who Jeff Bezos is. Spelling bee winners like you are not Trump's target audience. Instead of nitpicking, try asking why Trump may have said what he said. It's this refusal or inability to see things from other perspectives that was a major reason for the shock Democrats experienced when Trump won.

It might as well be owned by Amazon

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