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LOLOL If flickers are blinks DeJoy kills that the blink contest in that session with Senator Rosen.

DeJoy earns a title of Flickerman.

Some background to some of Trump's personal presidential power abuse.

In December 2013 Bezos said Trump asked him if he would be interested in buying WaPo.
Why do you think Trump might have encouraged Bezos to buy an influential newspaper?

Was Trump hoping seven years ago to get Bezos on his team? Was Trump that long
ago calculating how he might abuse his personal power if he ever became president?

Losing Again: Trump's Postal Plot Backfires Amidst Bezos Feud | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

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MSNBC

Pres. Trump’s alleged efforts to subvert the Post Office for his own political agenda go beyond the current scandal over voting by mail. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on a long-running feud with billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, including incriminating secret White House meetings reported by the Washington Post itself, and why the scandal matters now amidst allegations of election impropriety and the Postmaster General facing Congress, in a new installment of The Beat’s special Backstory series. (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8UkCvs-ILo

Some articles mentioned in the video:

Why Trump went after Bezos: Two billionaires across a cultural divide
By Marc Fisher April 6, 2018 at 5:52 a.m. GMT+10
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-trump-went-after-bezos-two-billionaires-across-a-cultural-divide/2018/04/05/22bb94c2-3763-11e8-acd5-35eac230e514_story.html

Donald Trump is a poison pill for the Republican Party
By Editorial Board December 5, 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-a-poison-pill-for-the-republican-party/2015/12/05/56996c50-9ab8-11e5-8917-653b65c809eb_story.html

Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms
By Damian Paletta and Josh Dawsey May 19, 2018 at 3:32 a.m. GMT+10
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-personally-pushed-postmaster-general-to-double-rates-on-amazon-other-firms/2018/05/18/2b6438d2-5931-11e8-858f-12becb4d6067_story.html

Trump, Having Denounced Amazon’s Shipping Deal, Orders Review of Postal Service
By Michael D. Shear April 12, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/us/politics/trump-postal-service-amazon.html

This one is important. Even after Trump's administration told him Amazon was good for the Post Office Trump didn't change course.

Trump Said Amazon Was Scamming the Post Office. His Administration Disagrees.
By Jim Tankersley Dec. 4, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/us/politics/trump-amazon-post-office.html

So what's left for Trump? To replace Brennan with a toady. Even better a guy who had publicly said he would not be Trump's man.

New Breed CEO no one’s ‘apprentice’
By Marta Hummel Staff Writer Nov 30, 2004 Updated Jan 24, 2015
Louis DeJoy could not live up to Donald Trump’s vision of an executive .
P - “I’d be fired,” said DeJoy, CEO of privately held New Breed Corp., a $170 million
logistics and distribution company with 2,200 employees nationwide — 400 in Greensboro.
https://greensboro.com/business/new-breed-ceo-no-one-s-apprentice/article_ab0f9da6-b94f-5afc-8bc7-3e7b482028ef.html