Kara Swisher on WaPo not Endorsing: Jeff Bezos Is ‘Frightened of Donald Trump’; ‘It’s an Enormous Embarrassment’

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Wallace: “Kara, you‘re focused on newspapers? Yes. And their presidential endorsements?”

SWISHER: “Yeah. There can be a lot of debating and whether you should have a presidential endorsement or not and loved newspapers are reconsidering it and that‘s a fine thing that the Washington Post and Los Angeles times this week really had a major fail by quashing endorsements of Kamala Harris because they‘re billionaire owners, changed their mind at the last moment and pulled it on. What are supposed to be independent boards? Editorial boards, and especially Jeff Bezos, who I think is frightened of Donald Trump and pull the Kamala Harris endorsement was already written Washington about the Washington Post. I started my job, my career in the mailroom of the Washington Post. It‘s an enormous embarrassment and the fine people at the Washington Post are furous and it‘s a real black eye for Jeff and we should point out that there had been top staffers at both—“

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