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Shares of the company fell 0.3 percent to $980.00 in premarket
trade after Trump's comments.
Representatives for the company could not be immediately reached
for comment
"Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns,
cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt - many jobs
being lost!" Trump wrote.
Trump has repeatedly targeted Amazon.com, whose CEO Jeff Bezos
owns the Washington Post, one of several major media outlets
that have been swept up in the president's ongoing fight with
the press.
"The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the
guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should)
is FAKE NEWS!" Trump wrote in a post on Twitter on June 28, one
of several posts critical of Amazon since late 2015.
His tweet on Wednesday came as a reporter for the Washington
Post appeared on CNN's "New Day" program discussing criticism of
Trump's comments in the wake of weekend violence in
Charlottesville, Virginia.
On Tuesday, Trump inflamed tensions over a deadly rally by white
nationalists in the town by insisting that counter protesters
were also to blame, drawing condemnation from some Republican
leaders and praise from white supremacists. {nL2N1L2057]
Amazon.com has said that it has more than 50,000 job openings
across the United States to help fulfill customer orders and
recently hosted multiple job fairs to fill them.
The e-commerce company does collect state sales taxes in
Washington, D.C., and 45 U.S. states that have such a levy, the
company said on its website.
Still, Amazon's growth has upended the U.S. retail market with
its rapidly expanding reach. Its decision in June to buy premium
grocer Whole Foods has signaled its move into other sectors and
has also raised some questions about jobs.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey, Editing by Angus MacSwan and W
Simon)
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