‘One-Two Punch’: Karoline Leavitt Was Trump’s Secret Weapon In Amazon Win—
WASHINGTON—In a splashy Tuesday morning scoop, Punchbowl News revealed that Amazon would start displaying how much an item’s cost had derived from tariffs next to the product’s total listed price. By noon, Jeff Bezos had backed down.
In the hours in between, Bezos received a private blasting from President Donald Trump, which happened to come just after he took a very public one from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Leavitt took her briefing room podium ready for the question: she had an article printed out that showed Bezos beneath the headline “Amazon partnered with China propaganda arm.”
“I’lltakethisquestionsinceIjustgotoffthephonewiththepresidentaboutAmazon’sannouncement,”Leavittsaidfromthepodium.“ThiswasahostileandpoliticalactbyAmazon.Whydidn’tAmazondothiswhentheBidenadministrationhikedinflationtothehighestlevelin40years?”
Sheadded,“It’snotasurprise,because,asReutersrecentlywrote,AmazonhaspartneredwithaChinesepropagandaarm.”
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