First, the WaPo op-ed, now this? Is Bezos…MAGA?
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will donate one million dollars to Donald Trump’s inauguration day fund and stream the event on Prime Video.
Bezos is also preparing to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago next week.
From The Wall Street Journal:
Bezos and the company decided on the contribution earlier this week, and communicated it to Trump’s team, according to some of the people. “Bezos is donating through Amazon,” according to a person close to Bezos. Amazon also will stream the inauguration through its Prime Video business, a separate, in-kind donation valued at $1 million, another of the people said.
Amazon gave about $58,000 in cash and in-kind donations to Trump’s inauguration in 2017, when other tech companies donated larger amounts. Amazon was told by the Biden administration that it wasn’t accepting tech donations for the 2021 inauguration, according to a person familiar with the matter, although Amazon streamed the inauguration for President Biden.
Bezos and Trump have long feuded, in part because of Bezos’ ownership of the Washington Post. Bezos once offered to send Trump to the moon via his space company, as an insult.
Quite the about-face from Mr. Bezos.
According to another Wall Street Journal report, Mark Zuckerberg has also donated one million dollars to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, despite the fact that the President-elect blasted Zuck during his presidential campaign.
More over at The Wall Street Journal:
Exclusive: Jeff Bezos’ Amazon, like Meta, is donating $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, as big tech shores up ties with the president-elect https://t.co/HTHRhysat9
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 12, 2024
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