[vlovich123]

Amazon has backed off on doing it for Haul after Trump’s press secretary publicly flamed them invoking a direct conversation with him:

> “The team that runs our ultra low cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products,” Amazon spokesperson Tim Doyle said in a statement. “This was never approved and is not going to happen.”

> Trump told reporters Tuesday afternoon that Bezos “was very nice, he was terrific” during the call and “he solved the problem very quickly.” He added that Bezos is “a good guy.”

If this had already started being leaked to the press I doubt that it “wasn’t going to happen” and was likely past exec review at that point. Then Trump calls Bezos and Bezos overrules the team and PR damage control as if this was some rogue action. Of course it’s pure speculation but it fits the timeline of events we know about better and we know this administration is a completely unreliable narrator as evidenced time and time again (from Trump continuing to lie claiming a photoshopped photo with ms13 overlayed was actually his tattoos to claiming he’s spoken to the Chinese leader with China disputing that any conversations have been had)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/amazon-considers-displaying-...

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"Leaked to the press" meaning one membership-based newsletter targeting DC insiders.

[ethbr1]

> Of course it’s pure speculation

This is what I was taking issue with.

And also, please don't do the currently en vogue thing of mentioning something unrelated to buttress an argument against Trump.

There's plenty of on-topic fuckups from this administration that you don't need to do the Fox News-style "and what about..." emotion bait.

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The Great Leader does not lie. Reality itself is in the wrong.