John Carlos Baez on Nostr: nprofile1q…nuxsy - Trump is dangling new business opportunities to billionaires if ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqqpuhh3jqmxl42sa3668qdqf4pcfuay3gykvn74zxvyfxg79wwwlqhnuxsy (nprofile…uxsy) - Trump is dangling new business opportunities to billionaires if they go along with him. But for those who threatened him, like Bezos (who runs the Washington Post, which has been very critical of Trump) and Zuckerberg (who runs Facebook, which used to block Trump), and Sergey Brin (who used to attend anti-Trump protests), he threatened with harrassment or prosecution when he became president. And so they gave in.

So it's a carrot and stick approach, very much like what Putin uses.

Example:

"When Donald Trump first ran for president, he began to threaten that Amazon and Jeff Bezos would pay the price. “If I become president — oh, do they have problems. They’re going to have such problems,” he warned. Trump’s grievance with Amazon was centered on Bezos’s ownership of the Washington Post, a connection the president did nothing to disguise. He raged at what he called the “Amazon Washington Post,” claiming spuriously that it had avoided “internet taxes.” In 2018, Gabriel Sherman reported that Trump was “obsessed” with retribution against Bezos for the Post’s coverage."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/washington-post-endorsement-kamala-harris-trump-bezos-amazon-threat.html