{"id":1044516,"date":"2021-11-22T14:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T19:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1044516"},"modified":"2021-11-22T14:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T19:58:50","slug":"jeff-bezos-donates-100-million-to-obama-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeff-bezos-donates-100-million-to-obama-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos Donates $100 Million to Obama Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjeff-bezos-donates-100-million-to-obama-foundation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1044516&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is donating $100 million to the Obama Foundation in the wake of&nbsp;Amazon clashing with the Biden administration over antitrust issues.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos\u2019 $100 million donation to the&nbsp;Obama Foundation, made in&nbsp;honor of late Rep. John Lewis, is the&nbsp;foundation\u2019s largest individual contribution received to date, the Obama Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obama.org\/updates\/bezos-donation-2021\/\">announced<\/a> in a Monday press release.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18686466\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jeff-Bezos-lectures-normal-people-about-climate-change.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18686466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jeff-Bezos-lectures-normal-people-about-climate-change.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Bezos lectures normal people about climate change\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Bezos lectures normal people about climate change Pool\/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18664770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1352089695.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18664770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1352089695-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLASGOW, SCOTLAND \u2013 NOVEMBER 08: Former US President Barack Obama delivers a speech while attending day nine of the COP26 at SECC on November 8, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Christopher Furlong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The donation comes after the House Judiciary Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on Antitrust <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/06\/14\/democrat-led-committee-introduces-5-antitrust-bills-targeting-tech-giants\/\">introduced five bills<\/a> last summer aimed to curb anti-competitive practices in the tech industry. The bills have been presented as a bipartisan effort to rein in the power of dominant Silicon Valley companies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>One bill aimed to prevent technology companies from favoring their own products and services on their platform, a practice that Google and Amazon have been accused of. Another&nbsp;targeted the use of data obtained from competitors to gain an advantage over them, a practice that has made Amazon the subject of an EU antitrust investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover,&nbsp;Lina Khan, the&nbsp;Chairperson of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), is reportedly probing Amazon\u2019s&nbsp;$8.5 billion acquisition of MGM Studios. In June, Amazon demanded that&nbsp;Khan&nbsp;recuse herself from any FTC probes of the company, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/30\/amazon-wants-lina-khan-to-recuse-herself-in-antitrust-probe\/\">reported<\/a> <em>New York Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos\u2019 nine-figure gift to the Obama Foundation was arranged by&nbsp;former Obama press secretary and current Amazon&nbsp;senior vice president of global corporate affairs&nbsp;Jay&nbsp;Carney, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/bezos-and-obamas-surprise-100-million-marriage\/\">report<\/a> by&nbsp;Puck News.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama Foundation says Bezos\u2019 donation will \u201chelp expand the scope of programming that reaches emerging leaders in the United States and around the world,\u201d adding that Bezos \u201chas asked&nbsp;for the Plaza at the Obama Presidential Center to be named the John Lewis Plaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the foundation was vague regarding what&nbsp;Bezos\u2019 donation will be spent on, it said that the money will give \u201cthe next generation of emerging leaders\u201d the \u201cnecessary tools, resources, and training needed to be the change they want to see in the world, just as Congressman Lewis did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to support President and Mrs. Obama and their Foundation in its mission to train and inspire tomorrow\u2019s leaders,\u201d Bezos said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, former President Barack Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/05\/barack-obama-to-jet-into-cop26-climate-summit-and-tell-old-folks-to-get-out-of-the-way\/\">jetted<\/a>&nbsp;into Glasgow, Scotland, for the COP26 climate conference to tell \u201cold folks\u201d to \u201cget out of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the&nbsp;perspective of the Obama Foundation, one of the things I\u2019m most excited about is to see the young activists from around the world who are taking up the baton and not just working in their own countries, but now forming a collective movement across borders to tell the older generation that has gotten us into this mess that we all have an obligation to dig our way out of it,\u201d Obama said in a recorded a video message.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\/\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is donating $100 million to the Obama Foundation in the wake of\u00a0Amazon clashing with the Biden administration over antitrust issues. 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