Preet Bharara to Jeff Bezos: "Buy Twitter with change in your pocket and shut Trump's account"

[Miles Archer]

Preet Bharara makes tempting offer to Jeff Bezos: ‘Buy Twitter with change in your pocket and shut Trump’s account’



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/preet-bharara-makes-tempting-offer-jeff-bezos-buy-twitter-change-pocket-shut-trumps-account/

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara made what must have been a tempting suggestion to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: Buy Twitter and shut down President Donald Trump’s account.

Amazon lost $53 billion in market capital recently after Axios reported that the president wanted to “go after” the company. Trump has had a long-running beef with Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post.

In a tweet on Monday, Bharara offered a suggestion that could mitigate Bezos’ problems and possibly improve the level of discourse in the U.S.

Preet Bharara
‏
Verified account

@PreetBharara

What if Jeff Bezos bought Twitter with the change in his pocket and shut Trump's account?

8:48 PM - 2 Apr 2018

Link to tweet

[MineralMan]

1. What a Capital Idea!

Do, it Bezos! Just do it!

[Eliot Rosewater]

30. To be honest, I dont know why he hasnt done it already, we are in a grave state of emergency

Sinclair is buying our media, etc.

Jesus christ people, you are running out of time, you are in such worse shape than you realize.

The "you" being the 75% out there not paying any attention.

[politicaljunkie41910]

39. He should sue Trump for defamation. I'm sure a lawyer could make the case that Trump's

lies and half-truths have caused him to lose $53 billion in market capital.

[Carey1]

56. Political Junkie

He should hire Michael Avanetti. Make Trump squirm like a trapped rat

[dameatball]

2. He can have the change in my pocket too!

[True Blue American]

24. Mine,too!

[FakeNoose]

3. Ooh yes! Free enterprise in action

Love the idea! Good one, Preet.

[smirkymonkey]

4. Oh, that would be a dream come true!

Somebody needs to shut that bastard up.

[lunasun]

5. No way. We don't need him as a victim / martyr

[atreides1]

7. Really?

Limit his access and where will he go? A victim, only in his own mind...a martyr, only to those who worship him!

What's really the worse that could happen, he'd give himself a stroke? He'd have to go on InfoWars or Hannity, in order to get his daily BS message out to the drones that live by his word...and that would mean the rest of America and the world wouldn't have to listen to his daily rantings, ravings, and bold faced lies!!!

[GeorgeHayduke]

9. There would be consequences

to shutting asshat up. Consequences we do not want to pay.

Just let him continue sticking his foot in his mouth.

[FSogol]

15. LOL! Cry poutrage and let slip the dogs of twitter-war!

[GeorgeHayduke]

36. Poutrage?

Im just suggesting to maintain some dignity while we let his ship sink.

[FSogol]

38. I would expect someone named George Hayduke to have a more radical plan of action...

PS. Trumpy is the poutraged one.

[GeorgeHayduke]

41. Poutrage

with respect to Chumps tantrums makes sense. Sorry for the misunderstanding. My username, while a reflection of some of my past attitudes, is a legacy name. In my age I've found that unabated outrage and unchecked radicalism generally produces less than desirable results long-term.

[FSogol]

42. I knew it was a misunderstanding, no worries. So Hayduke mellows out in old age. Who knew?

[GeorgeHayduke]

52. Ed died before he could write about

old Doc and Bonnie sittin' in rocking chairs next to a dusty trailer near Moab spinning tales about that nefarious bastard who got them in so much trouble with all that monkeywrenchin' when they were just young whippersnappers.

I'd like to think Hayduke would have grown older and wiser and understood more about the balance between the immediacy of his needs to protect and the equilibrium required to protect for the long-term. In this sense I always felt Ed to be a little myopic in accomplishing his goals but, fuck, he sure wrote great books!

I think Leopold penned the message properly.

[leftynyc]

19. I think donnie getting burned

by the free market would a very good lesson for trump humpers. It sure humbled that twit ingraham who had to apologize to keep her job.

[sprinkleeninow]

60. Ingrateham got humble-ized. 😝

[jmowreader]

43. Theres also justification

If any of us would have said the things Hurricane Orange does, TOS would have dropped on us like an anvil.

[GeorgeHayduke]

53. My point is

just wait. It'll come. We shouldn't expedite his demise by poking bears and giving them excuses to legitimize their future complaint when Chump goes tits-up.

Dont give his base anyone to point fingers at other than themselves when he folds.

Sure, they'll blame when Donnie goes down, just make sure that when they do, their argument is indefensible bullshit.

[SonofDonald]

6. That would be so damn sweet

Irony thy name is Twittler.

Damn thats something I'd love to see, can you imagine the meltdown?, there would be apoplexy from on high

Always wanted to use that word in a sentence.

[BSdetect]

8. Colossal idea.

[Corgigal]

10. President of the United States

shouldn't be using Twitter for any official statement. We don't know what he actually writes, or one of his staff.

Do it Bezos, just to stop any President ever from using this stupidity. He has something to say, I'm sure a media figure will show up with a video camera.

Twitter is below the office of the President. I never understood why the news treated it as anything official.

[llmart]

22. I agree with you 100%.

I'm sick of Twitter being some sort of news outlet. I'm even sick of it being used so much on DU.

[BigmanPigman]

59. DITTO!

[Rebl2]

29. I agree

with you. No President should be using Twitter for any reason.

[Cosmocat]

47. IF this was a D POTUS

The Rs would have put an end to this shit within 24 hours of his taking office ...

[bdamomma]

63. tRump has made

a mockery out of the office, twitter BS, he can't communicate in complete sentences, he wants that friggin wall, can't we build it around him??? Hate the POS.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Do it!

Show tRump a taste of the capitalism he claims to love.

Of course, we know that what tRump really loves is fascism: alignment of corporations with totalitarian state objectives.

[IronLionZion]

12. Twitter itself has rejected calls to shut down his account

in spite of his cyber bullying and spreading false information. It's the price of freedom.

[onecent]

13. That would be awesome!!!

[Lucky Luciano]

14. The deal would probably get blocked by his regulatory crew. nt

[DonCoquixote]

27. then let them do just that

and that way whenever people scream about "the free hand of the market" we will point to the fact that Bezos had as much right to BUY an outlet as the Sinclairs have to buy theirs.

[meow2u3]

16. I like that idea

This comes straight from the "revenge is a dish best served cold" department.

[denvine]

17. Better yet, buy Twitter and Sinclair.

Not a big fan of Amazon but might as well put his billions $$$ to good use!

[RainCaster]

18. Better idea: all networks should only accept Genuine Presidential Edicts

If the news refused to publish any of the Cheeto Tweeter's ramblings, and expected him to communicate like every other president has...

Do you think the Dumbass In Chief would grow up?

[FarCenter]

20. Revenues are flat, US users flat to declining, not a good business. Bezos has an MBA.

Washington Post profitable and growing for two years under Jeff Bezos’ ownership

The Washington Post had a good year. The newspaper more than doubled digital subscriptions and grew revenue from digital advertising, leading to its second consecutive year of profitability despite the media industry’s challenging landscape.

Washington Post Publisher Fred Ryan touted those accomplishments in an email to staff obtained by Axios. Ryan made a similar announcement at the end of 2016, pledging to hire scores of journalists and double down on technology. In 2013, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought the Post for $250 million.

Ryan said the profits will help the paper expand its Washington, D.C., headquarters, grow its editorial team to more than 800, and continue to invest in technology.

“The partnership between news and technology is powering our growth,” Ryan told employees, calling the paper’s newsroom a “laboratory for innovation, capitalizing on the latest advances in storytelling tools.”

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/washington-post-profitable-growing-two-years-jeff-bezos-ownership/

[farmbo]

21. If Bezos banished Bot accounts and enforced civility guidelines...

... millions of US users (myself included) would return to the Twitter platform.

[FarCenter]

34. Civility and media success are fundamentally incompatible. Bots are indistinguishable from people.

Properly designed Bots would pass the Turing test on Twitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

[Renew Deal]

25. I'd LMAO

[Mr. Ected]

26. Or Mueller indicts his ass over and over and over and over again

Something tells me Trump's attention to Bezos would evaporate very quickly.

[CrispyQ]

28. Oh snap!

A real billionaire, with a real business, who's not a puppet in debt up to his eyeballs to the Russians.

[Chickensoup]

32. Yes.

Yes..Yes..Yes.

[lapfog_1]

31. not exactly pocket change even for Bezos

market cap today is $21.5B

Generally, he would need to offer significantly over current stock price and acquire 51% of the stock to take over the company...

Let's say $14to $15B (evaluation at $28B to $30B).

Bezos net worth is only like $70B or so (maybe less now with Trump hammering Amazon).

Personally, if I were him, I would be finally SEC complaints against Trump and accuse him of trying to drive down the price of Amazon stock by publishing false information (tweets are publishing, and the charge of cheating the USPS is demonstrably false). I would seek $10B in compensatory damages from the Trump organization.

[mobeau69]

37. I wonder how many of the trump minions are making money

in the market using inside information about what the asshole is going to do or tweet next. Hopefully the SEC is watching them.

[lapfog_1]

46. yup... something tells me that certain Russian oligarchs are shorting

Amazon in the last weeks or months. Possibly the Kushners and Mercers and Murdoch and others in our own oligarchy.

[GoCubsGo]

51. Bezos is currently worth $120.1 billion.

$21 billion might not be "pocket change" for him, but he could still afford it. He should also file the SEC complaints and sue the Trump organization while he is at it, though. He should go after Comrade Spanky every way he can.

[lapfog_1]

58. wow, even after Amazon stock got hammered? Just wow

well, perhaps he should plunk down the money to silence Twitler.

Would the far right start a new "twitter" like app in answer? Would that even work ( attract the media and enough users and russian bots... I say "Da" on the bots ).

But still, file the SEC charges!

[logosoco]

33. I am of the opposite opinion here.

I think the more trump tweets, the more about him (and how stupid and selfish he is) is revealed. I think all of his tweets need to be part of the official record,so that future people will know what to watch out for in a leader!

[Cosmocat]

48. I think everyone on the planet gets the point already

Take the megaphone out of his hand ...

[iluvtennis]

35. Love it!

[Gothmog]

40. This would be fun to watch

[lindysalsagal]

44. Tv news crews everywhere shudder and hide under their desks.

They'll never allow it. They'd lose half their content.

[Honeycombe8]

45. What an excellent idea! Except...it's against the law to block anyone w/o just cause.

A free speech thing.

And I'm not sure Twitter actually makes money. It might.

[47of74]

50. The First Amendment only applies to government, not private businesses.

Twitter could ban Herr Fuckstick or anyone else it wanted to at any time and there isn't a whole hell of a lot the government could do about it.

[Honeycombe8]

54. Really? Interesting. Thanks. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

55. Surprising how many Americans don't know that.

The First Amendment only applies to government.

[importDavid]

49. And Fox News with the other pocket...

...just to disband it.

That would be amazing.

[Cha]

57. Shut off trump's Propagnda

Machine? Brilliant!

Thank you, Preet!

[TryLogic]

61. Ah, the Washington Post. I knew there was something.

What if honest Americans went after the FOX propaganda channel?

[bdamomma]

62. Sounds like a winner

or "checkmate".

[7962]

64. Early Christmas gift for sure. For the whole world. nt

[sandensea]

65. Au contraire!

The more Cheeto tweets, the more people see what a twit he really is.

[Midnight Writer]

66. No No No. You don't answer a charge of suppressing info by suppressing info.