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Jeff Bezos, here in 2019, congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election.
UNITED STATES – His tongue was loosed. Billionaire Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon and Washington Postcongratulated this Wednesday, November 6, the victory of Republican Donald Trump against Democrat Kamala Harris in the American presidential election.
“Congratulations to our 45th and now 47th president on his extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory. No nation has greater opportunities. I wish him success in his mission to lead and unify the America we all love.”he wrote on X, the social network of Elon Musk who is close to the next president of the United States.
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This statement may come as a surprise, given that only two weeks earlier, he had banned his newspaper from taking a position for either candidate. A choice criticized, his detractors believing that Jeff Bezos feared for his companies in the event of the election of Donald Trump, quick to sanction anyone who stands in his way.
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The billionaire then had to explain himself in an editorial published in the Washington Post, stating “ do not push » in favor of his personal interests. “I assure you that my opinions here are, in reality, positions of principle,” he emphasized.
Because for Jeff Bezos, supporting a candidate “ actually creates a perception of bias, of non-independence”. Put an end to it is the right decision,” he added. THE Washington Post had supported Democratic presidential candidates in 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020. According to public radio NPR, his decision caused the daily to lose at least 200,000 of its subscribers, or 8% of its total.
Like Jeff Bezos, another big American boss congratulated Donald Trump on his victory. This is the founder of Facebook (now the Meta group) Mark Zuckerberg. “Congratulations to President Trump on his decisive victory. There are great opportunities ahead of us as a country. I look forward to working with you and your administration,” he wrote about Threads, the X competitor created by Meta that never really took off.
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