White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was on fire during a press conference Thursday morning, slamming Amazon for a proposed plan to display tariff costs on their website as well as shilling for liberal states and Communist China.
Miller joined White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in the briefing room on Thursday to discuss the Trump administration’s return to common sense in the first 100 days.
At one point, the Gateway Pundit reported, he completely demolished the entire press corps in an epic five-minute condemnation of the media’s shilling for illegal aliens when asked a question about deported MS-13 terrorist Kilmar Garcia Abreago.
In another instance, he gave a masterclass on Amazon’s unfair practices to “undermine” trade negotiations with China.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Amazon backtracked on a proposal to display the cost of tariffs on Chinese goods after President Trump called Bezos.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt moved the stock market with a scathing rebuke of Amazon and a call for Americans to buy American goods. “This is a hostile and political act by Amazon,” Leavitt said, attacking the retail giant for not doing this “when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years.” She then described the move as “not a surprise,” spotlighting Amazon’s new partnership with “a Chinese propaganda arm.”
Amazon’s share price fell 2% following Leavitt’s comments, and the retail giant then downplayed its plan, issuing a statement claiming that the consideration was only in place for the Amazon Haul store, but not the main retail website. Amazon later said they “never approved” a plan, and it’s “not going to happen.”
The President told reporters on Tuesday that Bezos “did the right thing” after their phone call and Leavitt’s comments, where she slammed the move as a “hostile and political act.”
When a reporter gave him an attempted gocha question regarding the claims of politicization by Amazon, Miller responded with fire, pointing out the clear hypocrisy.
“Of all the different things that go into a theoretical price input, for example, does Amazon list the cost of California’s regulations on everything made in California?” he challenged the reporter. “Anything you make in California, you have a massive price increase because of the health care regulations that are unworkable in that state, because of the labor regulations that are unworkable in that state, because of the subsidies that go to legal aliens in that state, because of all the bureaucracy. So, anything being produced in California has a massive built-in price hike.”
Still, Amazon doesn’t highlight how liberal policies contribute to the increased cost of California goods.
He took it a step further and called Amazon out for selling goods from China that are cheaply made rip-offs of American goods, which he called the “most significant” issue with the company. Previously, Leavitt noted that Amazon’s consideration of displaying tariff costs is “not a surprise,” given Amazon’s new partnership with “a Chinese propaganda arm.”
WATCH:
Reporter: This administration has stressed the need for price transparency for things like health care bills and concert tickets. So why is it a political and hostile act for Amazon to display price transparency on consumer goods?
Miller: Well, I think that’s the wrong way of looking at it, which is why would— first of all, that proposal is down now, but why would Amazon, of all the different things that go into a theoretical price input, for example, does Amazon list the cost of California’s regulations on everything made in California?
Anything you make in California, you have a massive price increase because of the health care regulations that are unworkable in that state, because of the labor regulations that are unworkable in that state, because of the subsidies that go to legal aliens in that state, because of all the bureaucracy.
So, anything being produced in California has a massive built in price hike. So, why wouldn’t Amazon have a list saying if you purchase it in California, instead of in Alabama, this is the premium that you pay. This was a clear intent by whoever proposed it originally—I don’t know, because Amazon says they were never going to do it—to try to undermine our trade negotiations with China.
I’ll make another important point of this, which is that there’s been many complaints about the fact that there are sold on Amazon that are actually rip offs of American products that are then stolen by China, and then they take our IP, and they put them into products and try to undersell our manufacturers.
So, to the extent that we are engaged in labeling issues on Amazon, I would say that would be the most significant one to fix, is making sure we’re not undercutting American consumers.
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