Apr 8, 2018 2 min read

The truth behind Amazon-USPS deal

As President Trump rants about Amazon’s shipping contract with the U.S. Postal Service, he continues to prove how much he is willing to corrupt facts, engage in misinformation and hoodwink those who are woefully gullible into absorbing the false narratives he generates. An analysis of the subject proves that the USPS and Amazon appear to be in an amicable relationship, whereby the Postal Service is benefiting from its shipping contract with Amazon. As in any contract, both parties enter willingly. There is no evidence that Amazon forced the Postal Service into a contract. The Postal Service has had its share of financial woes, but the contract with Amazon is not one of them.

Trump wails that the taxpayers are being harmed by Amazon’s business relationship with the USPS. It is amazing how much this president is unaware that the Postal Service is an independent entity and does not receive government support from the general tax fund.

The real festering and underlying truth in the matter is that Trump has a vitriolic gripe with Amazon because its CEO also owns The Washington Pos{/em}t. That publication has riled him and is unafraid to report on the misdeeds it finds daily in the Trump White House. The Post’s{/em} header decries: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” As the editors apparently see it, the Trump Administration would gleefully black out all vestiges of truthfulness in government if the guardians of democracy were to be silenced, as is routinely done in totalitarian regimes. Nothing would be more detrimental to our democracy if a practitioner of bully tactics had his way by stamping out exposures of corruption, deceit and dishonesty.

Ronald J. Yamka

Canonsburg