“Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.”, Donald J Trump 💰 💰 💰 💰
"If more information comes out and changes, we could look at that, but I am planning on going.", Treasury Secretary Mnuchin 💰 💰 💰 💰
In response, several media outlets and companies have withdrawn from a huge upcoming investment conference in Riyadh known as the “Davos of the Desert,” including:
Prominent investors and tech executives have also distanced themselves from Saudi Arabia due to concerns about the Khashoggi allegations, including:
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America First means Trump First! Trump’s vendetta against Jeff Bezos is Orwellian. #AbuseOfPower #DictatorInChief #GOPComplicit
Even if Dear Leader doubles the price:
Bezos, it’s time to fight back. Get political. Donate and help Democrats win in the House and Senate in 2018. Win the presidency in 2020. #BlueWave
President Trump has personally pushed U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon.com and other firms to ship packages, according to three people familiar with their conversations, a dramatic move that probably would cost these companies billions of dollars.
The United States is on track to be a majority-minority nation by 2044. But census data show most of our neighbors are the same race.
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Excellent piece by Jill Abramson.
Donald Trump’s savage attacks on Jeff Bezos and Amazon mark a sharp escalation in the president’s attacks on the free press. Trump v Bezos is really a proxy war: the president’s ultimate target is the Washington Post, which Bezos purchased from the Graham family in 2013.
The Post’s return to financial health since 2013 has been good for the media, which thrives on healthy competition. Since Trump became president, the Post and the New York Times have engaged in a thrilling, old-fashioned newspaper war, with each trading off, day after day, with deeply reported stories and scoops that hold the Trump administration to account. The Post has been relentless in investigating the Trump administration’s abuse of power and the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Russia during the 2016 election.
Of all of Trump’s attacks on Bezos, the most poisonous lie is that he uses the Post to lobby for Amazon. When Bezos bought the paper, he did so with personal funds, to keep the newspaper’s interests and mission completely separate from Amazon’s. The Grahams would not have found him a fit owner if they thought Bezos wanted to use the Post to wield influence.
According to the many journalists who work there, Bezos has had a light touch as owner, focusing on areas in which he can make a difference, such as improving the paper’s technology. He has entrusted the running of the paper to Marty Baron, hired by the former publisher Katharine Weymouth, whose contributions to safeguarding her inheritance have been insufficiently credited and appreciated.
There is real reason to fear that Trump can win his war against the press. He has significant allies, including Rupert Murdoch’s Fox empire and Sinclair Broadcasting, which controls local television stations across the country and is seeking to acquire more through a planned purchase of the Tribune Company.
“I can’t believe that’s a real sentence”, Brian Stelter
Why? Because one is 10 times richer and the other is 100 times smarter than he is!
"I have a rocket company, so the capability is there"
— Jeff Bezos Oct. 20, 2016 #BlueOrigin
“He gets obsessed with something, and now he’s obsessed with Bezos. Trump is like, ‘how can I f*ck with him?’” #DespotTrump
Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Blue Origin and Washington Post - check #SuppressingDissent
h/t Preet Bharara
