Trump's tweet led to the loss of Amazon $ 6 billion
Tweet by US President Donald Trump that online retailer Amazon badly hurts retailers owning physical stores and paying taxes, leading to loss of jobs, leading to a sharp collapse of the company's stock.
Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the US are being hurt - many jobs being lost!
- Donald J. Trump (@ realDonaldTrump) August 16
Minutes from tweet Amazon lost $ 6 billion in the company's total market value, writes Mashable.
This loss is not critical to Amazon, the total value of which is over 460 billion dollars. Nevertheless, it may be a sign that Trump intends to launch an attack on Amazon, demanding stricter regulation in the online sales market to limit the company's growing power.
Conflict between Amazon and Trap began at the end of 2015, when online retailer Jeff Bezos posted The Washington Post An article criticizing Trump's nomination as a presidential candidate.
In response, the politician accused Bezos, who is the owner The Washington Post, in the use of this edition in order to reduce the taxes that pays Amazon.
The @washingtonpost, which loses a fortune, is owned by @JeffBezos for purposes of keeping taxes down at his no profit company, @amazon.
- Donald J. Trump (@ realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015
It didn't work because Post and Amazon are two completely separate companies.
After that, Trump mentioned three times Amazon before TwitterOne day even threatening the company with “Internet tax”.
The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes it is FAKE NEWS!
- Donald J. Trump (@ realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2017
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