President Trump renewed his attack on Amazon Wednesday, tweeting that the e-commerce giant is “doing great damage to tax paying retailers” and removing jobs in cities.
Amazon, which employs about 180,000 in the US and has plans to finish hiring 100,000 more full and part-time jobs by mid-2018, couldn’t be reached for comment.
Trump’s blistering tweet, his first of the day, was issued hours after The Washington Post — the newspaper owned by Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos — ran an editorial with the headline, “Mr. Trump gives comfort to racists.”
Many brick-and-mortar retailers are struggling to boost sales as customers increasingly turn to e-commerce sources, particularly Amazon, and they’ve been open about the difficult competitive environment. Several retailers, including The Limited, True Religion and Payless ShoeSource, have declared bankruptcy this year.
The Washington Post has been aggressive in covering Trump and the White House, breaking several impactful stories this year. The paper and other national media outlets have been at the receiving end of the president’s constant attacks — on Twitter and in encounters with reporters — on what he considers to be “fake news.”
Using the hashtag #AmazonWashingtonPost, Trump tweeted in June that the paper was “the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should).”
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