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On 15 June 2016, the web site Red Shtick published an article reporting that Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post newspaper, had revoked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's shopping privileges on Amazon.com in retaliation for Trump's asserting that Bezos was using The Washington Post for power so that the politicians in Washington don’t tax Amazon like they should be taxed and announcing that he would revoke the press credentials of Post reporters for his campaign events: Although this article was circulated on social media by readers who mistook it for a genuine news reports, it was simply a piece of satire from The Red Shtick web site, whose disclaimer notes: While Bezos has not responded to Trump's declaration about revoke press credentials from the Washington Post reporters, Post editor Marty Baron did release a statement about the issue:
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