Send Trump to space, says Washington Post owner
Jeff Bezos, a renowned American entrepreneur, has floated the idea of sending Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to space for accusing him of tax evasion.
The row started on Monday, when Trump went on a Twitter rant against Bezos, suggesting that the owner of popular companies such as Amazon and The Washington Post is using his companies for tax fraud purposes.
“The Washington Post, which loses a fortune, is owned by Jeff Bezos for purposes of keeping taxes down at his no profit company, Amazon,” Trump said in one of his tweets.
The real-estate magnate then suggested that the Jewish billionaire has formed a scheme through which “The Washington Post loses money (a deduction) and gives owner Jeff Bezos power to screw public on low taxation of Amazon.”
He alleged that without this “big tax shelter,” Amazon, which offers a rich collection of very popular and profitable online services as well as top-selling gadgets, would go down.
“If Amazon ever had to pay fair taxes, its stock would crash and it would crumble like a paper bag. The Washington Post scam is saving it,” the billionaire tweeted.
As it turned out, Bezos was not happy with the allegations from his fellow billionaire businessman and took to his own Twitter account for a response.
“Finally trashed by Donald Trump. Will still reserve him a seat on the Blue Origin rocket,” he said in one of the only four tweets ever posted on his account since he joined in 2008.
Bezos used the opportunity to subtly refer to his new adventure, the Blue Origin space company, which made the headlines last months when one of its “reusable” rockets launched and landed intact.
The Post later on rejected Trump’s accusations saying that he is wrong because “Amazon doesn't own The Washington Post. Bezos's holding company -- Nash Holdings -- does”
However, no further details were provided by the daily or Bezos himself, who took its ownership in 2013.
Latest national poll by CNN/ORC shows that Trump, who has drawn a lot of attention for his inflammatory remarks, enjoys a 36 percent support among the registered Republican or Republican-leaning voters, keeping a 16 percent margin over his closest competitor, Senator ted Cruz of Texas.
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