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Amazon plans to make a $1 million donation to the President-elect’s first fund as founder Jeff Bezos and other tech leaders work to smooth relations with the incoming commander-in-chief, the company confirmed to FOX Business.
The offer is being prepared by Bezos ahead of his visit next week to Mar-a-Lago, the Wall Street Journal first reported.
“Bezos is giving up on Amazon,” a source close to Bezos told the newspaper.
Amazon will also broadcast the launch of Prime Video, the company confirmed, which will be a cash offering worth another million dollars, the Journal reported.
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The donation is being prepared by Bezos ahead of his visit next week to Mar-a-Lago, the Wall Street Journal reports. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
FOX Business reached out to Trump’s transition team but did not hear back.
Bezos is among leaders in the tech industry, including Elon Musk and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, who want to approach the new administration.
Musk, the most outspoken of them all, endorsed Trump in July and remains close to him.
Musk has donated about $250 million to pro-Trump causes to help him get elected, and Zuckerberg plans to donate $1 million to the first fund.
Bezos and Musk are also both competing for NASA contracts through their space companies, SpaceX and Blue Origin, although SpaceX is the main company that transports astronauts to the International Space Station.
Musk was also tapped along with Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the newly created Department of Public Works to manage the incoming.
Amazon will make a $1 million donation to the President-elect’s inaugural fund as founder Jeff Bezos and other tech leaders work to mend relations with the incoming commander-in-chief. (Nathan Stirk/Getty Images/Getty Images)
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“I want to get input from them,” Trump told CNBC Thursday when he met with three businessmen. “Look, we want them to do well. We want everyone, and we want good jobs, good wages. We want people to love, and when they wake up in the morning, like wake up and ‘I like to go to work, I want to go to work.’ We want people to work, and we want them to make more money.”
Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, and Trump have clashed in the past, mostly over the newspaper’s coverage of Trump.
However, the Post avoided controversy before this year’s election by deciding not to endorse the candidate, which some saw as a tacit endorsement of Trump.
Musk endorsed Trump in July and has remained close to him ever since. (Photos by Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
“If @amazon ever paid a fair tax, its stock could crash and collapse like a paper bag. The @washingtonpost scam is saving it!,” Trump tweeted nine years ago.
Bezos blamed Trump’s influence on the legal challenge after the Defense Department awarded a $10 million cloud computing contract to Microsoft instead of Amazon in 2019.
Amazon said at the time that the Microsoft contract “was not based on the merits of the proposals and was instead the result of outside influence that has no place in government procurement.”
Recently, Bezos wrote on X that Trump showed “great grace and courage” in the assassination attempt and congratulated him the day after the election.
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“Congratulations to our 45th and now 47th President on an extraordinary political comeback and an important victory. No nation has greater opportunities. We wish @RealDonaldTrump every success in leading and uniting the America we all love,” he wrote.
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