If they could they would. Who do you think is more powerful, the billionaire, or the politician who asserts his will on the billionaire? Case (s) in point:

1. Amazon/AWS losing the Pentagon cloud deal to Microsoft [1]

2. Amazon driven out of NYC by AOC and co. [2]. And still people think Bezos is the powerful one.

[1]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/business...

[2]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.syracuse.com/politics/2019/...