Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos congratulated Trump on his “strange political comeback.”
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The founding father of Amazon, who has been embroiled in controversy this election, congratulated Trump in a submit on X.”Large congratulations to our forty fifth and now forty seventh President on an strange political comeback and decisive victory,” Bezos wrote. “No country has larger alternatives. Wishing @realDonaldtrump all good fortune in main and uniting the The united states all of us love.”Bezos did not endorse a candidate this election however did stoke huge controversy when he blocked The Washington Put up, the newspaper he has owned since 2013, from endorsing Harris. In a column, Bezos defended his resolution, announcing it might create an phantasm of bias for many who already do not believe the media. After the Put up introduced its resolution, more than one columnists surrender, and tens of hundreds of readers canceled their virtual subscriptions.”Presidential endorsements do not anything to tip the scales of an election,” Bezos wrote in an op-ed protecting his resolution. He added, “I want we had made the exchange previous than we did, in a second farther from the election and the sentiments round it.”The billionaire, value $211 billion, insisted that his resolution to dam the endorsement used to be no longer a “quid professional quo” with Trump. He had met with the president-elect the similar day of the announcement to speak about Blue Foundation, his area exploration corporate. The corporate, like any personal area firms, is determined by federal contracts and competes with Elon Musk’s extra dominant SpaceX for presidency initiatives.Barry Diller, chairman of IAC and Expedia and considered one of Harris’ main donors, known as the newspaper’s resolution a “blunder” on CNBC’s Squawk Field.
