{"id":61482,"date":"2026-05-07T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/61482\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:16:09","slug":"the-week-in-whoppers-elizabeth-warren-rips-into-jeff-bezos-reuters-gaslights-on-the-voting-rights-act-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/61482\/","title":{"rendered":"The week in whoppers: Elizabeth Warren rips into Jeff Bezos, Reuters gaslights on the Voting Rights Act and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions<\/p>\n<p>This tweet:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If Jeff Bezos can drop $10 million to sponsor the Met Gala, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWarren\/status\/2051378897531306196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We say: He already pays plenty, Liz. Yes, Amazon\u2019s founder has reportedly kept his income taxes down by drawing a small salary. But he pays big-time <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/28\/business\/jeff-bezos-has-sold-5-7b-worth-of-amazon-stock-since-venice-wedding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when he sells stock<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Forbes estimates Bezos forked over $2.7 billion in taxes in 2024 alone, after unloading $13.6 billion in Amazon stock. Oh, and he\u2019s given billions away in charity over the years. <\/p>\n<p>But greedy, dishonest Warren still isn\u2019t satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>This report:<\/p>\n<p>We say:\u00a0 Reuters didn\u2019t just tilt the story by claiming the court \u201cgutted a core Voting Rights Act protection\u201d; it totally gaslit readers. <\/p>\n<p>All the court did in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/29\/opinion\/supreme-court-signals-the-end-of-legalized-race-games-hooray\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">striking down Louisiana\u2019s race-based districting<\/a> was merely limit how the VRA can be used \u2014 so that it doesn\u2019t violate the US Constitution when there\u2019s \u201cno compelling interest\u201d to justify the \u201cuse of race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This suggestion:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalgreens should be charged with first-degree corporate abandonment.\u201d \u2014 Chicago Alderman William Hall, Monday<\/p>\n<p>We say: Hall is angry that Walgreens is closing one of its Chicago stores, forcing people in that area to travel further for medicine and other needs. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But the store faced continuing theft and violence that left it unable to ensure safety for workers and shoppers. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe Hall should be charged with law-enforcement abandonment for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/video\/chicagos-hellhole-politics-block-real-help-red-hot-takes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not doing more to fight crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This claim:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t even get my Republican colleagues to agree to not deport American citizens.\u201d \u2014 Rep. Johnny Olszewski (D-Md.), Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>We say: Please. No Republican wants to deport \u201cAmerican citizens.\u201d And none have been. But if the facts aren\u2019t on their side, Democrats like Olszewski plainly<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/10\/opinion\/sen-adam-schiff-again-leads-dems-in-a-big-lie-that-trump-will-scuttle-the-midterm-elections\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> feel entitled to just lie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions This tweet: If Jeff Bezos can drop $10 million to sponsor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[9905,5768,1700,486,8581,3427,706,734,483,7541,55,1076,1821,536,1049,2194,36463],"class_list":{"0":"post-61482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jeff-bezos","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-civil-rights","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-democrats","12":"tag-deportation","13":"tag-editorial","14":"tag-elizabeth-warren","15":"tag-jeff-bezos","16":"tag-louisiana","17":"tag-met-gala","18":"tag-opinion","19":"tag-republicans","20":"tag-reuters","21":"tag-supreme-court","22":"tag-taxes","23":"tag-voting","24":"tag-walgreens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116535373513657774","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}