TRUMP TARGETS AMAZON AGAIN IN NEW TWEETS
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| This combination of pictures shows Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (L), who also owns The Washington Post, and US President Donald Trump |
US President Donald Trump on Saturday resumed
his attacks against online retailing giant Amazon and accused The Washington
Post, owned by Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos, of lobbying for the company.
His latest
comments, two days after a similar swipe against Amazon, coincided with a
report in Saturday's Post about three different legal efforts "trying to
pry open" the books of the president's umbrella company, the Trump
Organization.
On
Twitter, Trump claimed the US Postal Service loses "billions of
dollars" delivering packages for Amazon.
"This
Post Office scam must stop. Amazon must pay real costs (and taxes) now!",
he wrote.
...does not include the Fake Washington Post, which is used as a “lobbyist” and should so REGISTER. If the P.O. “increased its parcel rates, Amazon’s shipping costs would rise by $2.6 Billion.” This Post Office scam must stop. Amazon must pay real costs (and taxes) now!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 31, 2018
For the
first quarter of the 2018 financial year the US Postal Service reported
"strong package growth," with revenue in the segment up 9.3 percent
from the same period last year to $505 million.
That did
not offset the fall of $557 million in first-class and marketing mail revenue,
the post office said.
The Post report on Saturday referred to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's reported subpoena of Trump Organization documents related to Russia.While we are on the subject, it is reported that the U.S. Post Office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon. That amounts to Billions of Dollars. The Failing N.Y. Times reports that “the size of the company’s lobbying staff has ballooned,” and that...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 31, 2018
Mueller is
probing whether there was collusion between Trump's 2016 election campaign and
Moscow, as well as possible obstruction of justice.
The
newspaper also reported that a lawsuit filed by porn actress Stormy Daniels
over an alleged a sexual encounter with Trump has brought additional scrutiny
to the Trump Organization.
Finally,
it mentioned the District of Columbia and State of Maryland's suing of Trump
over allegations that his "financial entanglements" violate the
Constitution.
Trump is
spending Easter weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. He sent his latest
tweets while in a motorcade on the way to his Trump International Golf Club.
On
Thursday the president tweeted that Amazon uses the post office as its
"delivery boy" and alleged that the firm pays "little or no taxes"
to state and local governments.
The comments renewed concerns that Amazon could face scrutiny by antitrust regulators.I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2018
A day earlier, a report on the Axios news site said Trump's wealthy friends complain that Amazon is killing shopping malls and brick-and-mortar retailers, and had asked about the possibility of going after the firm using antitrust laws.
Amazon
But
Trump’s own advisers have repeatedly tried to inform him this his perception
about the online retailer is completely unfounded.
“The whole
post office thing, that’s very much a perception he has,” one source said,
according to the same Axios report. “It’s been explained to him in multiple
meetings that his perception is inaccurate and that the post office actually
makes a ton of money from Amazon.”
Not to
mention that the post office, according to Axios, added delivery on Sunday in
some places because “Amazon made it worthwhile.”
Trump doesn’t care about the retail industry
Trump is
pretending his latest attacks on Amazon and Jeff Bezos are about saving other
retailers from going out of business, but that’s not what this about.
After all,
the U.S. has lost tens of thousands of jobs in the retail sector just since
Trump was elected. Since 2001, retail has shed nearly half a million jobs. In
the same time period, the coal industry – the one Trump incessantly drones on
about – shed just 22,000 jobs.
On that
very real jobs crisis, Trump has been silent.
“President
Donald Trump championed himself as a savior of the American worker during his
campaign,” Business Insider noted. “But he has been largely silent on the
biggest crisis facing these workers: the collapse of the retail industry.”
That’s
because this isn’t about sound policy proposals or helping American workers.
It’s always about scoring political points and protecting his ego.
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