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Trump’s FTC makes Bezos pay billions despite his desperate bootlicking

Ellsworth Toohey
Sep 25, 2025
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos walks with Lauren Sanchez in the pit-lane before the F1 Grand Prix of Monaco at Circuit de Monaco on May 25, 2025 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco (QIAN JUN / Shutterstock.com)

It turns out that all that cringeworthy toadying to Donald Trump couldn’t save Jeff Bezos from Trump’s FTC.

Amazon just got slapped with a historic $2.5 billion pen…

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