‘Fundamentally saddened’: Washington Post readers on failure to endorse Harris
GuardianNOV 12 2024
Former Washington Post editor-at-large Robert Kagan, who resigned last Friday following the paper's decision not to endorse a candidate in the US presidential election, has alleged that The Post's owner, Jeff Bezos, struck a secret deal with Donald Trump to drop its planned endorsement of Kamala Harris.
According to Kagan, Trump met with executives at Blue Origin – Bezos' space exploration company – after The Post's announcement and came to a "quid pro quo" agreement to end the plan to end The Post's decades-long practice of endorsing presidential candidates and not support Kamala Harris.
Kagan said Trump "waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do, and then met with the Blue Origin people." The allegations come less than two weeks before US voters go to the polls to elect their next president.
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