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Mary Papenfuss

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Bezos blocked harris endorsement in quid pro quo with trump washington post editor - The Untold Story

Jeff Bezos has been accused of "appeasement" of Donald Trump after he blocked his newspaper, The Washington Post, from endorsing Kamala Harris. (Credit: AFP)

A top Washington Post editor lashed owner Jeff Bezos for blocking the newspaper's endorsement of Kamala Harris in what he called a "quid pro quo" with Donald Trump in an interview with the Daily Beast.

Outgoing editor-at-large and columnist Robert Kagan, who resigned Friday to protest Bezos' action, said he doesn't know the specifics of a deal. But he said Trump's meeting with executives of Bezos' Blue Origin space company on the same day the billionaire Amazon owner blocked the Harris endorsement was "proof of a backroom deal," the Beast noted.

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