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do have too many regulations in this country,” Bezos added.
The comments follow Bezos' October decision to prohibit The
Washington Post, which he owns, from endorsing a presidential
candidate, a move that led to tens of thousands of people
canceling their subscriptions and protests from journalists with
a deep history at the newspaper.
At the time, Bezos wrote in an op-ed in the newspaper saying
editorial endorsements create a perception of bias at a time
when many Americans don’t believe the media, and do nothing to
tip the scales of an election.
On Wednesday, he said he would try to talk Trump "out of the
idea” that the press is the enemy.
“You’ve probably grown in the last eight years,” he said to
journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin. “He has, too. This is not the
case. The press is not the enemy.”
Trump had railed against Bezos and his companies, including
Amazon and The Washington Post, during his first term. In 2019,
Amazon argued in a court case that Trump’s bias against the
company harmed its chances of winning a $10 billion Pentagon
contract. The Biden administration later pursued a contract with
both Amazon and Microsoft.
In another part of the interview, Bezos said he doesn't expect
Elon Musk, who has been tasked with cutting regulations in the
upcoming Trump term, to use his power to hurt his business
competitors. Bezos owns Blue Origin, a rival to Musk's SpaceX.
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