What’s behind the changed relationship between Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump?
by Anna Nicolaou, Stephen Morris, Rafe Uddin, and Ale from Ars Technica - All content on (#6W2DF)
In October 2019, Amazon sued the Pentagon, alleging that President Donald Trump had blocked the company from securing a $10 billion cloud-computing contract because of his animus toward The Washington Post and its owner Jeff Bezos-whom the US president derided as Jeff Bozo."
At the time, the dispute was just one example of the near-constant skirmishes between Trump's White House and corporate America. But the episode left an enduring mark on Bezos, the Amazon founder and the world's second-richest person.
Over the past year, Bezos has executed a sharp public reversal in his relationship with Trump-whom he previously criticised as a threat to democracy"-that has surprised even longtime associates and has stunned the Post's newsroom.