Amazon Is Working with Lawmakers to Counter Trump’s Immigration Order

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Jeff Bezos normally doesn't really care that that much about other human beings. Why start now?

Working conditions are deplorable in many Amazon warehouses and he has destroyed many small businesses all in the pursuit of raising Amazon's stock price by a few pennies.

He's doing this as a personal vendetta against Trump. During Trump's campaign, he said he would pursue a federal lawsuit against Amazon for their monopolistic tactics.

This is actually something I hoped Trump would do. Amazon has been abusing their online marketplace monopoly for far too long.

If all Bezos cared about was the bottom line then he wouldn't be seeking out ways to so publicly undermine the administration. As you said, Trump already made a threat to Amazon just as a candidate. Now he actually has the power to pursue an anti-monopoly action against Amazon. Even if Amazon and Washington state are successful in their lawsuit, it would be a pyrrhic victory compared to what Trump's Justice Department could do to Amazon.

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