Why is Donald Trump threatening Amazon and Jeff Bezos? - CNET

If Donald Trump had his way, he'd happily light all those Kindle Fires and Fire TVs on fire. The front-running Republican candidate for the US presidency promises to take aim at Amazon, its founder Jeff Bezos and the entire media, if elected.

"I have respect for Jeff Bezos, but he bought The Washington Post to have political influence, and I gotta tell you, we have a different country than we used to have," Trump said during a speech in Texas on Friday (see clip below). "He wants political influence so that Amazon will benefit from it. That's not right. And believe me, if I become president, oh, do they have problems. They're going to have such problems."

Trump seems to be taking aim at Bezos because he's upset with The Washington Post's coverage of his campaign, which he called "unfair," going on to say that he would use libel laws to go after the press in the courts. (He also mentioned The New York Times.)

"When they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money," he said later in the same speech.

But for much of the past year, Trump has been widely critical of the entire mainstream media, of which The Washington Post is just one outlet (and with a smaller audience than others). So why all the focused ire from the candidate?