'bezos Is Donating Through Amazon': Tech Giant Makes $1 Million Donation To Donald Trump's Inaugural Fund

Amazon is pursuing Meta's lead by making a $1 cardinal assistance to president-elect Donald Trump's inaugural money conscionable 1 clip aft Meta made an identical donation.

Amazon confirmed nan publication to aggregate outlets connected Thursday. Sources told nan Wall Street Journal that Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos helped Amazon find connected nan amount.

"Bezos is donating done Amazon," a guidelines claimed to nan WSJ.

The inaugural money covers early expenses that recreation up erstwhile a caller president takes office. Federal Election Commission records show that Microsoft donated $500,000 to immoderate Trump's first inauguration successful 2017 and President Joe Biden's successful 2021. Amazon didn't donate successful 2021 but gave astir $58,000 successful 2017.

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Amazon is too making a abstracted assistance successful summation to nan $1 cardinal successful cash: It will watercourse nan inauguration done Prime Video, a publication weighted astatine an further $1 million, per nan WSJ.

Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Trump confirmed connected Thursday that he will meet pinch Bezos astatine Mar-a-Lago successful Palm Beach, Florida adjacent week. Bezos joins different tech CEOs for illustration Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, who personification precocious met pinch Trump there.

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"Mark Zuckerberg has been complete to spot maine and I tin show you Elon is different and Jeff Bezos is coming up adjacent week and I want to get ideas from them," Trump told CNBC's Jim Cramer connected Thursday. "Look, we want them to do well, we want everybody, we want awesome jobs, awesome salaries... We want group moving and we want them moving for a batch of money."

Bezos said highly of Trump precocious and said that he was "very optimistic" astir Trump's 2nd connection successful office.

Trump is "calmer than he was nan first clip and overmuch confident, overmuch settled," Bezos said astatine nan New York Times DealBook Summit past week.

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