Amazon founder and Washington Put up proprietor Jeff Bezos licked Donald Trump’s boots Wednesday morning as he congratulated the president-elect on his win.
“Big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th President on an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory,” Bezos wrote on X. “No nation has bigger opportunities. Wishing [Donald Trump] all success in leading and uniting the America we all love.”
Bezos’ fawning congrats comes after he stopped The Washington Put up’s editorial board from endorsing within the election, claiming that the Put up wanted to remain impartial within the race as a way to repair the mistrust in media organizations.
“What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias,” Bezos wrote in an op-ed within the paper, whereas greater than 250,000 individuals canceled their subscriptions in protest of his choice. “A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one.”
Individuals who canceled their subscriptions following his choice accused Bezos of preemptively bending the knee to a wannabe authoritarian as a way to shield his companies from being focused in a second Trump time period. When Trump was in workplace the primary go-round, he threatened Amazon’s tax standing as a result of he was offended at Bezos.
“You can see my wealth and business interests as a bulwark against intimidation, or you can see them as a web of conflicting interests. Only my own principles can tip the balance from one to the other. I assure you that my views here are, in fact, principled, and I believe my track record as owner of The Post since 2013 backs this up,” Bezos wrote in protection of his choice to dam the editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, an endorsement it had already written.
But lower than 24 hours after Trump’s victory, following his lie-filled, darkish and misogynistic marketing campaign, Bezos heaped reward on Trump and his “extraordinary political comeback.”
The Amazon founder’s put up offers the notion that he’s not, certainly, unbiased, in addition to proves his critics proper that his endorsement choice was a self-interested one.
“This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty,” Marty Baron, the previous government editor of The Washington Put up, wrote in a put up on X after Bezos’ unique choice. “[Trump] will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner [Bezos] (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.”
Finally, the media’s incapacity, or flat-out refusal, to deal with Trump because the hazard he’s is partly why we’re within the place we’re in immediately.
It seems, democracy does die in darkness.
