President Donald Trump has assailed The Washington Post in connection with a story about termination of U.S. efforts to aid rebels fighting to oust Syria’s President Bashar Assad.
In a post on his Twitter account Monday, Trump said, “The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad.”
U.S. officials told the newspaper in a story published July 19 that ending the secret program was related to Trump’s concerns about re-establishing a working relationship with Russia.
White House deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders declined at the time to discuss cessation of the program, telling reporters she didn’t know if it had come up in discussions that Trump had with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.
The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017
So many stories about me in the @washingtonpost are Fake News. They are as bad as ratings challenged @CNN. Lobbyist for Amazon and taxes?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017
Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017
(AP)
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Trump is being Trump, but given his own refusal to release his taxes and the obvious fact that Amazon collects sales tax and presumably pays any corporate tax that it’s required to, I’m not sure why he keeps harping about Amazon and taxes.
Also, if the U.S. stopped aiding the rebels because it was “massive, dangerous, and wasteful,” why wasn’t it announced? Only after the WaPo uncovered this did Trump admit it.