The bipartisan trustbusters who want Amazon broken up

Published November 27, 2018 5:00am ET



Amazon’s future looks brighter than ever, but as it opens new campuses in New York City and near Washington, D.C., the retail and cloud-computing giant might have another kind of cloud incoming: that of the trustbusters.

Belief that the company needs to be broken up holds bipartisan appeal. Left-wing activists find themselves agreeing with President Trump, who detests coverage of himself in the Washington Post, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. In August, Trump suggested the company and two others were in a “very antitrust situation.”

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