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It was, let’s say, illuminating To see which American institutions have shown a backbone – even in a measured and interested way – faced with the corrupt requests of a president recently found guilty of fraud, tried to overthrow the last elections, and seems to openly solicit favors, investments and home planes to foreign countries. (Note: the president has not been accused of any crime linked to cryptocurrency – what a sentence, including in this article – and the Trump family refused to comment on the history of the New York Times on their Crypto activities.) It is also … challenging To see which institutions have not defended themselves much, even less for anyone.
Among those who stand for themselves, you have Harvard, whose president reduces his own salary while the university combines the administration in court for the federal funds to which he is entitled. Among those who not is the University of Michigan, whose own chief came out of the left field at the end of March to announce that it had closed the school’s diversity program, then stopped taking a job at the University of Florida. There, his first official act was to publish a statement that congratulated Ron Desantis. TRAME!
This week, a version of this dynamic has developed in the retail sector while the CEO of Walmart announced during a call with investors that the company will soon increase the prices on some of the items it sells due to the prices imposed by Trump. “The higher rates will lead to a price increase,” said Doug McMillon. It may seem a simple fact, but counts as an audacia truth another The main distributor of Chinese manufacturing things and things has been done recently.
It would be Amazon, the electronic commerce giant founded by Jeff Bezos, who attended the inauguration of Trump and has negotiated a payment of $ 40 million from the company at Melania Trump which is apparently license fees for a documentary she makes. Amazon, unlike Walmart, responded to a report at the end of April that it could indicate the price costs on the pay pages not be the case.
This week, on the other hand, the current CEO of Amazon Andy Jassy is in Saudi Arabia with Trump, where he (Jassy) announced a partnership between the company and a company of AI co -founded by the close ally of the Trump family, ally Mohammed Bin Salman. Bin Salman is the de facto Saudi leader who would have ordered the kidnapping, murder and dismemberment of 2018 of a columnist at Washington Post belonging to Bezos (At least, that’s what the CIA has concluded; Bin Salman denies it). Bin Salman was also accused by Bezos himself In 2019 Bezos telephone hacking and obtaining information on an extramarital case later published by the National Enquirer. Time heals all injuries, apparently, with the exception of people suffered by people who worked for Jeff Bezos when Mohammed Bin Salman murdered them. Allegedly.
In years, one wonders if figures like Bezos will always expect to fill respect and authority in the United States after having supported what is essentially an attempt to make king. Really, how difficult it can be to do the right thing when Walmart and Harvard shoots him disabled?
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