Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports

  • The Washington Post said it will not endorse a candidate in the presidential election for the first time in decades.
  • The newspaper ran an article by two staff reporters saying that editorial page staffers had drafted an endorsement of Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in the election.
  • “The decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,” the article said.
  • In a 2019 lawsuit, Amazon claimed it lost a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft because Trump used “improper pressure … to harm his perceived political enemy” Bezos.

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