Jeff Bezos bashes Biden over inflation tweet

 

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Jeff Bezos (Amazon) is slamming president Biden for asking gas companies yesterday to lower their prices at the pump. Bezos tweeting quote inflation is far too important a problem for the white house to keep making statements like this. It's either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics. Gas prices have been slowly dropping lately, but remember, the average per gallon was 2.39 when the president took office, 3.53 when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, and today the average is 4.81.

Ouch. Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this. It’s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics. https://t.co/XgKfEICZpk

— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) July 3, 2022

Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., joined 'Fox News Live' to discuss this issue, he said:

The president's being Intellectually dishonest. We're playing with fractions Right here. Frankly, what he's doing is what he always does for all the problems that he's created the blame game, the blame falls Within. Do you know what leadership is? What a real president does? A real president stands up and Says look, I made a really bad mistake when I limited the Number of permits out there. I increased the red tape out there. And I just closed down the oil Industry in every single way I could. How could the prices not go up? He wants to blame Ukraine or the War in Ukraine, and that's Nonsense as well because Frankly, if he had been a strong President, and he's not, he's Weak, and he's feckless, and, You know, Putin knew that, so he went ahead with this war. This would have never happened With a strong president. 

I guarantee you that if Donald Trump Was there, this wouldn't have happened. He would have stood up and told Putin and stopped it, and it Wouldn't have occurred. This is all, every bit of it is due to this president and his Bad misplaced policies, and he's Blaming others, and you know, he may be competently impaired, but He seems to be smart enough to Always blame somebody else for His own screw-ups. 

We'll never vote to perpetuate policies like that. Unfortunately, that was an executive order. Most of the bad things he's done certainly have been initiated by him and pushed through congress. We're not going for anything like that. Secondly, we are going to squeeze him as hard as we can because he's got to know that this is not acceptable, that we want to open this energy portfolio up, and that we can help people. The issue here is we're number one in energy. 

Actually, we should be number one in everything, and we could be, but we can't because of him, but we have the potential to be number one in energy. Instead, he crawls on his knees to Venezuela, to the Mideast, to Iran, to individuals and groups that are literally bad and evil to their core and begs them, and that's the wrong thing to do, so we're not going to do that. And we're going to squeeze the daylights out of him to do the right thing, if he's going to want anything from this new congress, he bet to do some listening. -- he better does some listening.

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