President Trump levels false attacks against The Post and Amazon in a pair of tweets

President Donald Trump used his Twitter account to make false and misleading attacks against The Washington Post and Amazon, the behemoth online retailer whose founder owns The Post. In the first of his tweets, President Trump said the “Amazon Washington Post has gone crazy against me ever since they lost the Internet Tax Case in the U.S. Supreme Court two months ago.”  The president was apparently referring to a Supreme Court case decided in June  that will allow state governments to compel online retailers beyond their borders to collect sales tax revenue from consumers.

Amazon, whose founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Post, does not collect taxes on third-party purchases. The Post and Amazon are independently operated. It’s not clear what Trump meant by “gone crazy against me,” though he was critical in a separate tweet July 23 of media coverage of his efforts to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons. The Post reported over the weekend that Trump has privately fumed about a lack of progress even as he has publicly touted his administration’s efforts.