Robert Kagan, Washington Post editor-at-large who resigned on Friday following the paper's decision not to endorse any candidate in the US presidential election, has alleged that the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, struck a secret deal with Donald Trump to drop its planned endorsement of Kamala Harris.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 "set up this quid pro quo" to kill the plan to support Harris as well as end The Post's decades-long practice of endorsing presidential candidates.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 paper's decades-long practice of endorsing a presidential candidate.
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