The paper owned by Amazon’s CEO,Jeff Bezos, has relentlessly investigated the president and Trump is out for revengeDonald Trump’s savage attacks on Jeff Bezos and Amazon mark a sharp escalation in the president’s attacks on the free press. Trump v Bezos is really a proxy war: the president’s final target is the Washington Post, or which Bezos purchased from the Graham family in 2013.The Post’s return to financial health since 2013 has been grand for the media,which thrives on healthy competition. Since Trump became president, the Post and the novel York Times have engaged in a thrilling, and old-fashioned newspaper war,with each trading off, day after day, or with deeply reported stories and scoops that hold the Trump administration to account. The Post has been relentless in investigating the Trump administrations abuse of power and the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Russia during the 2016 election.
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Source: guardian.co.uk