Resolved: Trump Era Republicans Are Uniquely Bad in American Political History

[Craig4]

In partial answer to your highlighted question:

• Trump threatened antitrust actions against Amazon, which appeared to do some small temporary damage to the value of Amazon stock.
• Those threats continued for months.
• Trump declared he would "take a very strong look" at a ten-billion dollar contract that was expected to go to Amazon. Following that threat and a review by acting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, that contract went to Microsoft instead of Amazon.

That list could be expanded.

Donald Trump is not the ideological creature you imagine him to be. Trump's policies favor the super-wealthy because Trump is a super-wealthy narcissist who is out for himself, not because he cares about "cementing the political power of the super-wealthy" in general. Jeff Bezos is just one example of a super-wealthy person whose political power Trump has opposed. There are other examples; a list of such examples would correlate quite well with a list of wealthy persons who have criticized Trump.

Don't forget that the Stupid Bitch in Chief also tried to get the US Postal Service to charge Amazon more claiming they lost money shipping for the company.

 

[luchog]

Don't forget that the Stupid Bitch in Chief also tried to get the US Postal Service to charge Amazon more claiming they lost money shipping for the company.

Okay, I stand corrected on that, there has been some pushback against Amazon; but so far Trump hasn't hurt Amazon and Bezos directly nearly as much as he's helped them indirectly with all the tax breaks and pro-corporate legislation. But I don't expect Trump to be smart enough to recognize that.

And the pushback is clearly due to personality conflict, rather than principles.

 

[Ziggurat]

Okay, I stand corrected on that, there has been some pushback against Amazon; but so far Trump hasn't hurt Amazon and Bezos directly nearly as much as he's helped them indirectly with all the tax breaks and pro-corporate legislation.

There was that whole $10 billion cloud computing contract for the Pentagon. Sally Donnelly, one of the people involved in the contract award process, ran a company which Amazon was paying for consulting services. The contract was written in a way so that only Amazon would be able to meet the requirements. The Trump administration put the brakes on that, opened up the contract specifications, and now Microsoft won the bid.

Losing a $10 billion contract is a significant hit, even to a company like Amazon.