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'Dangerous dictator': How Trump 'bullied' Bezos to drop plan to display Amazon tariff cost

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    65% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -23% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Donald Trump speaking at an event hosted by Students for Trump and Turning Point Action at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona in June 2020, Gage Skidmore Following the announcement on Tuesday that Amazon could reveal the impact of President Donald Trump's tariffs on its products, it was reportedly the president himself who directed Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to issue a public warning to the company.
32% : Trump openly celebrated Bezos submitting to pressure, signaling a concerning trend of increasing autocratic intimidation.
23% : Reports indicated on Wednesday that Trump also contacted Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to voice his discontent.
21% : Trump is determined to arrest democracy -- and the women who defend it The New Republic reported Wednesday that a new PRRI poll reveals public opinion about Trump's authoritarianism, and a majority now sees him as a "dangerous dictator." "As Trump bullies private companies to stop them from telling the truth about his tariffs, a public opinion researcher shares new data illustrating the depths of public revulsion over his dictatorial reign," the New Republic report said.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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