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J.D. Vance accused the online retail giant Amazon of funding Black Lives Matter so rioters would burn down brick-and-mortar competitors. Donald Trump’s running mate made that unsupported allegation in 2021 at a conservative think tank during a speech on “woke capital,” suggesting that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had encouraged the riots that occasionally broke out alongside the largely peaceful protests the year before in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, reported the Christian Science Monitor. “Who benefits most when small businesses on Main Street are destroyed?” Vance told the gather…

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