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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos offers to shoot Donald Trump into space

Dec 8, 2015, 2:08 PM | Updated: 2:38 pm

Donald Trump posted a series of tweets, taking a jab at Jeff Bezos and his companies, Amazon.com an...

Donald Trump posted a series of tweets, taking a jab at Jeff Bezos and his companies, Amazon.com and The Washington Post. (AP)

(AP)

In classic passive-aggressive Seattle style, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos responded to a handful of tweets by presidential hopeful Donald Trump &#8212 by offering to shoot him into space. It was the fourth tweet Bezos has ever posted since his Twitter account went active in 2008.

The spat began with Trump posting a few jabs at Amazon and Bezos, claiming that The Washington Post, which Bezos owns, is using its profits to save Amazon’s lacking profits. Trump also took offense with the Washington Post’s recent editorial content regarding his presidential race.

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