Trump attacks Amazon: 'Doing great damage to tax paying retailers' (AMZN)

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President Trump claimed on Twitter on Wednesday morning that "Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers."

"Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt - many jobs being lost!," the president continued.

Amazon has been a frequent target of the president's tweets in the past. "Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly?," President Trump tweeted in July.

And in 2015 Trump tweeted that "If @amazon ever had to pay fair taxes, its stock would crash and it would crumble like a paper bag."

CNN presenter Brian Stelter theorised that Trump's most recent attack on Amazon could be related to a headline in The Washington Post, which is owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

"Mr. Trump gives comfort to racists" is the headline on the top editorial in today's @WashingtonPost, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos https://t.co/onjNmW6LwW
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 16, 2017

President Trump previously linked Amazon with The Washington Post and claimed that the newspaper lobbies for Amazon.

So many stories about me in the @washingtonpost are Fake News. They are as bad as ratings challenged @CNN. Lobbyist for Amazon and taxes?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017

The @washingtonpost, which is the lobbyist (power) for not imposing taxes on #Amazon, today did a nasty cartoon attacking @tedcruz kids. Bad
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2015

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