“So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post.”
Mr. Trump has attacked Mr. Bezos, Amazon and the newspaper since his presidential campaign, suggesting in the most un-Republican of ways — and falsely — that Mr. Bezos uses the newspaper as a lobbying arm to stave off higher taxes and antitrust enforcement for Amazon. To hammer home his unfounded theory, the president has referred to the paper as the Amazon Washington Post more than a dozen times since 2015, although Mr. Bezos, not the company, is the owner.
That Mr. Trump would slap a childish sobriquet on a man he perceives as a threat is not news. (See Schiff, Adam, whose name the president spun into a vulgarity in a November tweet.) Nor is it news that he went after The Post — a newspaper that has been a thorough and aggressive chronicler of his presidency and the various investigations it has drawn.
The news contained in the tweet on Sunday was something that, at first glance, may not seem like news at all: his praise for The Enquirer.
Sure, The Enquirer turned itself into an effective cheering squad and opposition research shop for Mr. Trump before, during and after the presidential campaign. As part of the effort, the tabloid’s owner, American Media Inc., arranged to effectively silence Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who claimed to have had an affair with Mr. Trump, with a $150,000 payout. And David J. Pecker, the chairman of American Media, was famously close to Mr. Trump.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/business/media/trump-bezos-national-enquirer-pecker-twitter.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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