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Trump Blasts Bezos on Twitter, Calls Washington Post a 'Scam'

The Republican front-runner says Bezos is using the Post as a tax dodge to prop up Amazon.

By CNBC
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Donald Trump turned his Twitter ire toward Jeff Bezos on Monday, accusing the Amazon CEO of using his newspaper as a tax dodge to prop up the retailer.

The Republican presidential candidate tweeted that Bezos’s Washington Post was a “scam” used to save “[Bezos’s] no-profit company” Amazon.

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