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Donald Trump attacked the entity he referred to as the “AmazonWashingtonPost” in a tweet Wednesday morning, the latest attempt by the president to cast Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos’s ownership of the Washington Post in a nefarious light.

There are a number of stories currently running prominently in the Washington Post that could make Trump unhappy; the newspaper is reporting that GOP senators are unafraid of him and that his lawyer’s family has been paid millions from charities it controls. But the story that seems most likely to irk the president personally is a piece by long-time Trump scourge David Fahrenthold exploring why the president’s golf clubs are displaying a phony Time magazine cover.

While it’s hard to parse his tweet for specific meaning, it’s likely he’s resurfacing a criticism he’s made about Amazon’s tax practices in the past. In December 2015, Trump unloaded on the Washington Post, describing it as a tax shelter that Bezos uses to keep Amazon’s taxes low. Without tax shenanigans, Trump argued, Amazon’s stock would “crumble like a paper bag.”

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