Amazon is causing "great damage to tax paying retailers," Trump said in a Twitter post Wednesday, causing shares in the online retailer to fall as much as 1.2 percent in early trading.
"Towns, cities and states throughout the US are being hurt - many jobs being lost!" Trump said in the tweet.
Trump is losing the support of many company executives, some of whom resigned this week from a council of business leaders to protest the president's response to the violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia. But he has often taken particular aim at Amazon and The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, for its coverage. The Post is in a business partnership with Bloomberg News.
While it's unclear what prompted Trump's tweet, which seems to be taking on two issues - taxes and jobs - The Washington Post ran a scathing editorial Wednesday about Trump in the paper, and there were also pro-tax reform advertisements that ran on early morning talk shows.
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