[Hoot Gibson]

Here is just another reason for me to despise Trump. Who is likely to pay for Trump's tariffs, trade wars, and other miscellaneous mischief as he targets an ever expanding universe of enemies? Look to your right, look to your left, and then look in a mirror. When Trump threatens people and companies, I find him very credible because he has a long history of bullying people.

There is some irony in a billionaire bully complaining about the taxes other people dodge while refusing to release his own tax returns. Every major presidential candidate since 1976 has released his tax returns. Not Trump.

Donald Trump isn't giving up on his months-long tirade against Amazon, Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post.

Trump went on Fox News Thursday night to tell Sean Hannity the same theory he's been spouting since he went on an epic Twitter tirade against Bezos in December.

Trump's contention can basically be boiled down to this: Bezos bought the Washington Post in 2013 in order to persuade Washington politicians to keep Amazon's taxes low and help the company avoid antitrust scrutiny. And Trump says that since he would be tougher on Amazon than Hillary Clinton, Bezos is also using the Post to write nasty articles about Trump to keep him out of the White House.

Or, in Trump's own words....

"This is owned as a toy by Jeff Bezos who controls Amazon," Trump told Hannity. "Amazon is getting away with murder tax-wise. He's using the Washington Post for power so that the politicians in Washington don't tax Amazon like they should be taxed."

Trump said Bezos is "worried about me," because "he thinks I would go after him for antitrust because he's got a huge antitrust problem. Amazon is controlling so much of what they're doing ... What he's got is a monopoly and he wants to make sure I don't get in."