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An anti-Trump Washington Post editor resigned in a crying temper tantrum Friday after the paper refused to endorse anyone in the 2024 race.
Editor-at-large Robert Kagan reportedly resigned after learning that the newspaper wouldn’t endorse either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump.
Kagan is infamous for claiming a Trump presidency would transform into a Trump dictatorship. Recall that Trump was already president once and that his presidency was anything but a dictatorship.
“I think it’s worth remembering Trump has already tried to become a dictator when he attempted to annul a free and fair election… how could you possibly put someone like that back in office?” asks Robert Kagan, who fears the next election could be America’s last if Trump wins. pic.twitter.com/4nuF4hTjKN
— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) April 30, 2024
According to Max Tani of Semafor, Kagan and others at the Post “are furious” over the paper’s non-endorsement.
“If you don’t have the balls to own a newspaper, don’t,” one Post opinion employee told Tani.
Opinion staff at WaPo are furious about the paper’s endorsement decision. Several are contemplating what action to take, ranging from resigning, quitting the board, or a statement. “If you don’t have the balls to own a newspaper, don’t,” one Post opinion employee tells me.
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 25, 2024
The non-endorsement was announced by Post publisher and chief executive William Lewis in an op-ed published early Friday afternoon.
“The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election,” he wrote. “Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.”
“Our job at The Washington Post is to provide through the newsroom nonpartisan news for all Americans, and thought-provoking, reported views from our opinion team to help our readers make up their own minds. Most of all, our job as the newspaper of the capital city of the most important country in the world is to be independent. And that is what we are and will be,” he added.
Everybody but deranged leftists responded positively to the announcement because Lewis was right: Newspapers, which are supposed to be nonbiased sources of news, shouldn’t be in the business of endorsing anyone, no matter how much pressure they face.
Leftists meanwhile began shrieking with horror and anger, with many of them vowing to cancel their Post subscription unless the paper endorsed their preferred candidate: Vice President Harris.
Here’s a tiny sample of the freak-out (*Language warning):
I just canceled my subscription to @washingtonpost. You should too.
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) October 25, 2024
The @washingtonpost with a spineless, cowardly decision to wave the white flag on presidential endorsements.
— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) October 25, 2024
It turns out there’s a globalist elite that is controlling institutions – but it’s billionaires backing Trump and silencing the newspapers they own. Don’t let them win.
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) October 25, 2024
So much for “Democracy Dies in Darkness”. This is the most hypocritical, chicken shit move from a publication that is supposed to hold people in power to account. https://t.co/xnQMuR4kIJ
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) October 25, 2024
BREAKING: Jeff Bezos is forcing the Washington Post NOT to endorse Kamala Harris for President — just in case trump wins the election.
EVERYBODY CANCEL YOUR WASHINGTON POST SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW.
FUCK YOU, JEFF BEZOS. pic.twitter.com/joQOvl5H8z
— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) October 25, 2024
What’s unclear is who ordered the non-endorsement. Some say Lewis made the decision, while others point to Post owner Jeff Bezos.
According to David Folkenflik of NPR, top Post opinion editor David Shipley has suggested/implied “that Bezos ordered the decision and Lewis carried it out.”
I’m told by person with direct knowledge that Shipley implies that Bezos ordered the decision and Lewis carried it out.
Lewis is to publish an explanation to readers shortly, I’m told. (So far the WaPo has not answered my requests for comment.) MORE
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) October 25, 2024
The Washington Post Guild, a union for the Post’s so-called “journalists,” has seemingly confirmed Bezos’ involvement as well.
“According to our reporters and Guild members, an endorsement for Harris was already drafted, and the decision to not to publish was made by The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos,” the group said in a statement.
“We are already seeing cancellations from once loyal readers. The decision undercuts the work of our members at a time when we should be building our readers’ trust, not losing it,” they added.
A statement from Post Guild leadership on the Washington Post’s decision to not endorse a presidential candidate pic.twitter.com/fYU7hkr79K
— Washington Post Guild (@PostGuild) October 25, 2024
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