‘Just call Jay Carney’: White House trade czar ‘fuming’ after Bezos refers him to the policy department

Published February 6, 2020 6:12pm ET



White House trade and manufacturing policy adviser Peter Navarro “is fuming,” after Amazon chief Jeff Bezos brushed him off and told him to chat with a lower-level executive.

Navarro confronted Amazon chief Bezos at a Washington party in a bid to persuade him to clamp down on counterfeits sold through his company.

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