Amazon plans 100,000 more jobs - how big a role did Trump play? Amazon plans to hire 100,000 full time workers over the next 18 months, in sharp contrast to traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, many of which are cutting jobs and closing stores. Baird analyst Colin Sebastian said the announcement shows that Amazon's hiring appears to be accelerating, and management's confidence in the long-term outlook. Throughout the presidential election campaign Trump and Bezos clashed after Trump attacked Bezos and The Washington Post, which Bezos owns. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request to comment on what role, if any, Trump had in the jobs announcement.

Source: Stuff January 12, 2017 20:52 UTC