Posted on 02/26/2016 8:32:16 PM PST by reaganaut1
At a rally in Fort Worth, Texas today, Donald Trump unloaded on Amazon.com founder and owner of the Washington Post Jeff Bezos.
"I have respect for Jeff Bezos, but he bought the Washington Post to have political influence. And I gotta tell you, we have a different country than we used to have. We have a different... He owns Amazon. He wants political influence so that Amazon will benefit from it. That's not right. And believe me, if I become president, oh do they have problems. They're gonna have such problems," said Trump.
Trump went on to promise that, if he becomes president, he will "open up our libel laws, so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money."
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More like Crubio these days. ;-)
Can’t remember the name of the cartoon, the little king who speaks to his serfs from his tower window, and the serfs always get chit from his outbursts. That’s trump.
LOL!
Theo, you're so cute. Don't fret. You're boy will be put out of his misery soon. Then you can spend your days until November huddled over your keyboard posting RedState articles trying to scrape together whatever dignity you will have left.
Love you!!!
Someone should have beaten the sh*t outta Trump when he was growing up as a Nancy boy. Instead he turned out to be an entitled blow-hard who gets off to threatening people with his big fat mouth and threats of lawsuits. His schtick is old already.
GO Trump GO!!!
Amazon SUCKS !!!!
GO DONALD TRUMP !!!!
Dang...you're in May? At least I'm March 8th here in Idaho. The primaries suck in that often times your guy is knocked out even before you get a chance to vote. Lame system.
Trumps not my first choice, but he is 100% absolutely correct about this. What the heck does Bezos, a billionaire from internet commerce, want with an old-style print-and-ink, financially failing newspaper? Its pretty clear - he's buying a political voice, the main media voice in the center of the Empire that is Washington DC. Not a bad investment, actually.
And you KNOW Bezos' lifeline to WAPO will keep their leftist/progressive influence in place. That's important to the powers that be when you are a player.
Warren Buffett bought a bunch of city newspapers, supposedly "because he loved local news." Bullshit! It broke every one of his investing rules our pretend country-cousin Warren has given us to date. He bought it for political and financial insurance. I'm glad Trump has the courage to point this out to everyone.
Trump frequently says things you would expect to hear in the twilight of the republic.
Yes, but lots of Freepers seem to love it. He's such an "alpha male".
Hate it. Hate it. Hate it.
“I think at this point in the campaign we should all have recognized Trump’s penchant for over the top rhetoric”
Yep, he’s a nut.
Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don’t.
No he keeps controversy stirred up so as to keep himself in the news and the others out of the news. Its called being very clever. That’s one reason he is wrapping up the GOP nomination even as we speak.
No.
“The Wiz of Id”?
We’re a different country today. Who needs the First Amendment? Let’s sue everyone into oblivion that dares to say stuff we don’t like and are not nice to us.
Let’s mandate who is allowed to buy newspapers and blog or print things we can declare lies and sue them for lots of money to shut them and everyone who is not nice to me up.
This guy might make Obama look like an Amateur in the role of king.
Trump’s comments are authoritarian. Sad that Freepers don’t really care, and like cult of personality.
Taking a defendant to court over libel is not the action of a dictator. It is the action of one who supports the rule of law.
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