Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos congratulated President-elect Donald Trump on his “extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory" after he stopped his liberal media outlet from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris
Bezos rarely posts on X and has only done so twice in the past year: once to praise Trump’s grace under pressure during the first assassination attempt at Butler, PA and then the comments Wednesday.
Bezos' decision not to endorse Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris cost him over 200,000 subscribers, or about 8 percent of his paid circulation of 2.5 million. Bezos was distinctly philosophical about the non-endorsement and spoke out about how so many Americans no longer trust the mainstream media and hold in such low esteem that its favorability "managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all." Even while he was dismissing his critics, Bezos was indicating that he wanted to hire more conservative columnists at the left-of-center media outlet that many Americans still remember as the paper that got the scoop on Watergate.
In an op ed, The Atlantic suggested unsubscribing wasn’t bad enough and good liberals should target Bezos’ Amazon empire and drop their Prime membership. It accused Bezos of side-stepping Harris because he knew Trump was going to win the presidential election and he has better get ready for the next four years.
