Trump Attacks the 'AmazonWashingtonPost' Over Taxes

The president's line of critique is unclear, and there isn't really an interpretation where it holds water.

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By Joshua Brustein

June 28, 2017 at 3:29 PM UTC

Updated on

June 28, 2017 at 7:14 PM UTC

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Donald Trump attacked the entity he referred to as the “AmazonWashingtonPost” in a tweet Wednesday morning, the latest attempt by the president to cast Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos’s ownership of the Washington Post in a nefarious light.

There are a number of stories currently running prominently in the Washington Post that could make Trump unhappy — the newspaper is reporting that GOP senators are unafraid of him and that his lawyer’s family has been paid millions from charities it controls. But the story that seems most likely to irk the president personally is a piece by long-time Trump scourge David Fahrenthold exploring why the president’s golf clubs are displaying a phony Time magazine cover.