Kamala Harris blames Trump, rips billionaires’ ‘club’ for Washington Post’s non-endorsement

Vice President Kamala Harris said she was disappointed Tuesday by nan decisions of awesome wide newspapers for illustration The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times not to connection endorsements this predetermination cycle.

During an quality connected “The Breakfast Club,” host Charlamagne tha God asked Harris really she felt astir awesome news publications for illustration The Post and nan LA Times choosing to forego an endorsement, aft years of consistently and enthusiastically backing Democratic candidates for nan White House.

Both nan Post (Jeff Bezos) and LA Times (Patrick Soon-Shiong) person billionaire owners who quashed nan endorsements precocious successful nan predetermination cycle.

Harris said those decisions were “disappointing, nary doubt,” and pointed nan digit astatine her opponent, suggesting that nan erstwhile president only cares astir nan “billionaires successful Donald Trump’s club.”

She besides claimed that Trump would connection a monolithic taxation trim to nan wealthiest Americans if he returned to office. 

“He’s not sitting astir reasoning astir what he tin do to return attraction of your grandma and your grandfather,” Harris said.

“He’s reasoning astir group for illustration himself aliases himself and each of his grievances and each that makes him angry astir really he has personally been treated, arsenic opposed to worrying astir really you person been treated and what his work is to assistance you up.”

Bezos penned an op-ed defending The Post’s determination not to endorse a statesmanlike campaigner successful nan 2024 race, which was announced past week and set disconnected an uproar among nan newspaper’s staffers and wide readers.

The billionaire Amazon founder, who bought The Post successful 2013, insisted that newspaper endorsements “do thing to extremity nan scales of an election” but alternatively “create a cognition of bias.”

He doubled down connected The Post’s determination to extremity its statesmanlike endorsements by saying it’s a “principled decision, and it’s nan correct one.”

Soon-Shiong told nan LA Times that he had nary regrets astir his insubstantial not endorsing a candidate, arguing he thought it would sow further mistrust among readers. 

The decisions person been criticized by immoderate Democrats and pundits successful nan media, and nan fallout has besides included hundreds of thousands of canceled subscriptions to nan papers and resignations by immoderate staffers.

On Monday, MSNBC big Mika Brzezinski said erstwhile President Trump “forced” The Post editorial committee to not endorse Harris successful nan title during an question and reply connected ABC’s “The View.”

The committee was reportedly each group to connection an endorsement of Harris earlier nan plug was pulled astatine nan past minute.

“He sewage nan Washington Post and Jeff Bezos, who’s supposedly a powerful, superb billionaire. He sewage Bezos to backmost down, nan caput of Amazon. Runs nan Washington Post, owns it … He forced them to not endorse. That’s beautiful scary, guys,” Brzezinski said.

The Post’s editorial committee endorsed Hillary Clinton complete Trump successful 2016 and President Biden successful 2020.

The Post’s editorials astir Trump complete nan years person been overwhelmingly hostile, astatine 1 constituent referring to him arsenic nan worst president successful modern history.

Fox News Digital reached retired to The Washington Post for comment. 

Fox News’ Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.