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Jeff Bezos Endorses Donald Trump

by Tom Scocca

Washington Post image of Jeff Bezos with headline, "For Jeff Bezos, Post Represents A New Frontier"
Esther Vargas [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Flickr

Jeff Bezos is afraid of Donald Trump. That was the message he put out today when the Washington Post’s publisher, Will Lewis—whom Bezos hired from Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing publishing empire—announced that the newspaper was “returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.” The forcedly neutral-sounding proposition was attached to an entirely partisan decision: to withhold the Post’s already-written endorsement of Kamala Harris, in a gesture of support for Trump. 

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