Cuckold Bezos 'Greases' Way Into Dem Establishment With $100 Million Obama Donation

Obama-Biden alum Jay Carney arranged the massive gift

Faced with scorn from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Amazon 
billionaire Jeff Bezos appears ready to "grease" his way into the 
Democratic establishment with a $100 million donation to the Obama 
Foundation, according to Puck News.

The donation was arranged by Amazon executive and former Obama press 
secretary Jay Carney. The no-strings-attached gift comes as Bezos 
faces growing opposition from the left. The gift is the largest ever 
made to the foundation, which has chosen to forgo the traditional 
presidential library in favor of building a privately managed 
presidential center.

Bezos's donation comes at a difficult political moment for Amazon. 
Lawmakers from both parties fault the company for its poor treatment 
of workers and abuse of its market power. The company has also come 
under fire for banning conservative voices. This year, Amazon banned 
a book that criticizes transgender ideology and blocked an ad for a 
book that criticizes the Black Lives Matter movement.

Bezos has tasked Carney, who served as then-vice president Joe 
Biden's communications director, to ingratiate Amazon with 
Democratic lawmakers. Under Carney's leadership, Amazon's lobbying 
team has grown from about two dozen to 250 members. Reuters reported 
Friday that Carney has successfully lobbied to kill privacy 
protections for consumers in 25 states.

Amazon is not the only Bezos project to pique the ire of leading 
Democrats. NASA administrator and former Democratic senator Bill 
Nelson blamed Bezos's Blue Origin for causing a delay in a U.S. 
return to the moon. The space exploration company sued NASA after it 
lost a major contract to Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Obama's presidential center is the first presidential library or 
museum to be run by a partisan nonprofit, rather than by the 
National Archives and Records Administration. Bezos's ex-wife 
Mackenzie Scott and Bill and Melinda Gates have already made 
substantial donations to the center, which presidential scholars 
worry will become a partisan slush fund.

Activists on Chicago's South Side said the center will force out 
longtime neighborhood residents. The center received a tax-free, 99
-year lease on almost 20 acres of public parkland from the city of 
Chicago, for $10 in total. The center will be allowed to charge fees 
and keep the profits.

Bezos has ramped up his philanthropy over the past four years, 
pledging millions of dollars to liberal causes and figures. Earlier 
this year, he pledged $1 billion to conservation efforts and gave 
$100 million to CNN contributor Van Jones.


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