Bezos Doesn’t Feel Need To ‘Defend Amazon’ Against Trump, Sticks Up For WaPo

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Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos took selective aim Thursday at President Donald Trump, choosing not to to engage with him about Amazon, but coming to the Post’s defense, according to a Politico report.

“It is a mistake for any elected official in my opinion … to attack media and journalists. I believe that it’s an essential component of our democracy,” Bezos said in an on-stage interview with the Economic Club of Washington. “What the President should say is, ‘This is right. This is good. I am glad I am getting scrutinized.’ But it’s really dangerous to demonize the media. It’s dangerous to call the media lowlifes. It’s dangerous to say they’re the ‘enemy of the people.’”

Bezos has made headlines lately, promising $2 billion to fight homelessness and substandard preschool education after some bad publicity last week when Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced a bill called the “Stop BEZOS Act” to force giant companies to pay their workers better.

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  1. Maybe he should be “defending” Amazon’s corporate and employee policies against anti-trust and fair-labor-practices lawsuits.

  2. Avatar for theod theod says:

    Amazon Inc. polls better than DJT these days, allowing real billionaire to throw shade at faux billionaire. (This does not necessarily make Bezos your friend.)

  3. When you’re worth 163 billion and the richest person on the planet, (on record) I can see his viewpoint.You don’t need to attack the media, you just buy it.

    Added: I must admit, the Washington Post is still a great paper.

  4. Avatar for jinnj jinnj says:

    “Bezos has made headlines lately, promising $2 billion to fight homelessness and substandard preschool education”

    waiting for Trump to attack this as just a trick to get children hooked on reading so they will buy more books from Amazon.

  5. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    This is great, of course, but I’d much rather have the government do this then rely on the whims of some billionaire, who probably see it as goodwill and a tax break. Public education is our economic engine and should be funded appropriately by the government in my opinion.

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