BUSINESS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/USPS: “Three nominees to the board that oversees the U.S. Postal Service pledged Wednesday [4-18-18] to take an impartial look at President Donald Trump’s claims that Amazon is ripping off the agency — but stopped short of directly contradicting him. In a hearing, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill asked Trump’s nominees to the USPS board of governors whether they will confront the president if his frequent criticisms of Amazon’s shipping practices prove untrue. Trump has taken to Twitter to repeatedly deride the Postal Service as Amazon’s ‘delivery boy’ and maintain that taxpayers are losing billions on the online retail giant’s delivery contract, a claim that’s been called into question…Nominees David Williams, Robert Duncan and Calvin Tucker all gave some version of ‘yes,’ if not explicitly so. Trump has tapped them to oversee management of the financially strapped institution as part of a nine-member governing board that has sat vacant since 2016.”
–Steven Overly, “McCaskill to USPS nominees: Will you stand up to Trump on Amazon?,” Politico, April 18, 2018 12:42 pm