Trump targets Amazon and demands The Washington Put up register as a lobbyist

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• President Donald Trump slammed Amazon on Twitter
  Saturday, calling on the firm to pay more taxes.
• He also called out The Washington Put up and demanded
  that the newspaper, which is owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos,
  register as a lobbyist.
• Trump has consistently attacked Amazon this week as his
  feud with the larger than $700 billion online retailer
  escalates.

President Donald Trump attacked Amazon but again on Saturday,
doubling down on his claim that the rep retail firm is
hurting the US Put up Office and that it must pay more taxes.

« It’s reported that the U.S. Put up Office will lose $1.50 on
moderate for every package it delivers for Amazon, » Trump acknowledged on Twitter. « That
quantities to Billions of Bucks. »

Trump continued: « The Failing N.Y. Times reviews that ‘the scale
of the firm’s lobbying workers has ballooned,’ and that doesn’t
include the Pretend Washington Put up, which is feeble as a « lobbyist »
and might perchance well presumably fair so REGISTER. If the P.O. ‘increased its parcel rates,
Amazon’s delivery charges would upward push by $2.6 Billion.’ This Put up
Office rip-off must pause. Amazon must pay accurate charges (and taxes)
now! »

That is not the major time the president has taken map at Amazon, one amongst
essentially the most extremely fine — and valid — corporations in the US.

On Wednesday, Axios reported that Trump has
been « obsessed » with Amazon and must get a mode to interchange the
firm’s tax treatment or streak after it on antitrust grounds. The
president has prolonged criticized the firm’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, who
also owns The Washington Put up.

The following day, Trump tweeted about the firm,
accusing it of paying « dinky or no taxes to express & local
governments » and the spend of « our Postal Draw as their Provide Boy
(causing beautiful loss to the U.S.)… »

Trump’s attacks plan because the Department of Defense gears up to put up a requirement
to Congress for proposals on what might perchance well presumably be a $10 billion, 10-one year
contract to form the militia with cloud companies, because the
Pentagon is keen to migrate its data onto a cloud.

Amazon is anticipated to be one amongst the front-runners for the
contract, but Trump might perchance well presumably theoretically intervene to influence
his administration to make a option against hiring the firm.