Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Responds to Donald Trump Insults
It appears as though Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken aim at Amazon, Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post in a series of tweets that were quite disparaging to say the least.
According to a report by The Washington Post, who was also a part of the story, Trump seemed to take aim at the duo of companies and Bezos, who has stock in the newspaper and is the founder of online retailer Amazon.
In the first tweet, Trump criticized Bezos saying The Post was a tax haven for Bezos and Amazon with no ability to turn a profit.
The @washingtonpost, which loses a fortune, is owned by @JeffBezos for purposes of keeping taxes down at his no profit company, @amazon.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015
The next tweet mirrored the rhetoric of the first one and even threw in a comment about screwing the "public" with his tax shelter.
The @washingtonpost loses money (a deduction) and gives owner @JeffBezos power to screw public on low taxation of @Amazon! Big tax shelter — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015
The third tweet is where the source of his ire seemed to come to the surface. He pointed out how The Post has been telling his Republican opponents how to beat him, which seemed to light his fire.
.@washingtonpost is going out of its way to tell failing candidates how to beat Donald Trump.The Post doesn’t get that I’m good at winning! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015
But Bezos was not about to let Trump's baby fit go unchecked. He fired back at him with an indirect insult to the real estate business mogul with a special tweet of his own. "Finally trashed by @realDonaldTrump. Will still reserve him a seat on the Blue Origin rocket. #sendDonaldtospace," Bezos wrote in the tweet.
Finally trashed by @realDonaldTrump. Will still reserve him a seat on the Blue Origin rocket. #sendDonaldtospace https://t.co/9OypFoxZk3 — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) December 7, 2015
It also seems as though his new hashtag has maybe caught on for Twitter fans because it has already been liked over 7,000 times and people have really taken to his new idea.
But as The Post so brilliantly pointed out, Trump was once again wrong on his assertions and did not share true facts.
The truth is, Amazon does not own The Washington Post. Nash Holdings are in fact the owners and that is Bezos' company. But that has nothing to do with Amazon and its other shareholders. It is only isolated to Bezos himself.
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