Murdoch's Paper Skewers Trump for Bullying Amazon
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has criticized President Donald Trump for “bullying” Amazon into ditching its “brilliant idea” to display the cost of the president’s tariffs on its site.
The saga began when Punchbowl News reported Tuesday morning that Amazon would soon “display how much of an item’s cost is derived from tariffs—right next to the product’s total listed price.”
The comparison would have shown consumers how the price was affected by Trump’s 145 percent tariff on China and the 10 percent he is levying on most other countries.
After learning about the report, Trump picked up the phone and gave the company’s founder, Jeff Bezos, an earful. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also hit back aggressively at Amazon, calling the purported move a “hostile and political act.”
Bezos soon dropped the reported plans and by Tuesday afternoon Trump was calling him a “nice guy,” hailing him for solving “the problem very quickly.”
Now, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board has fired off on Trump nixing the plan—which Amazon denied—to “let Americans see what they’re paying,” calling it a “shame.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/murdochs-paper-skewers-trump-for-bullying-amazon-into-dropping-brilliant-idea/
Of course he did, and of course Bezos kowtowed. Chickenshit.
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