Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said he does not “feel the need to defend Amazon” against Donald Trump, but that he will defend the Washington Post. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos took aim at President Donald Trump over his criticism of journalists Thursday night, saying his rhetoric calling the media the “enemy of the people” erodes the freedom of the press the nation cherishes. “It is a mistake for any elected official in my opinion … to attack media and journalists. I believe that it’s an essential component of our democracy,” Bezos said in an on-stage interview hosted by the Economic Club of Washington. Story Continued Below “What the president should say is, ‘This is right. This is good. I am glad I am getting scrutinized,'” he said. “But it’s really dangerous to demonize the media. It’s dangerous to call the media lowlifes. It’s dangerous to say they’re the ‘enemy of the people.'” Bezos bought the Post in 2013 with $250 million from his personal fortune, and has since injected fresh capital and ambition into the region’s largest media outlet. But his ownership of the newspaper has provoked constant outrage from Trump, who rails against the newspaper’s coverage of him and falsely claims it acts as an advocate for Amazon. Trump accuses Ama
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