Vice President Kamala Harris put rival Donald Trump and his billionaires club on blast after Jeff Bezos stopped The Washington Post from making an endorsement in the presidential election.
During an interview on The Breakfast Club, radio host Charlamagne tha God asked the Democratic presidential nominee how she felt about major publications such as The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times refusing to endorse a candidate.
The vice president called the decisions disappointing, but said there is also another piece to it.
It gets back to my point about who is Donald Trump? Because hes the one, right, who is up for election with me, she said.
Its billionaires in Donald Trumps club, she claimed. Thats whos in his club. Thats who he hangs out with. Thats who he cares about, Harris went on.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaking at her rally in Ann Arbor, MI on October 28
The vice president slammed the ex-president claiming thats why he put in a massive tax cut for billionaires and biggest the corporations while in office.
She argued the will do it again if reelected and accused him of not having policies focused on the middle class.
Her comments come after The Washington Post revealed it would not make an endorsement in the presidential race for the first time in 36 years.
The decision was made by the Pulitzer winning newspapers billionaire owner Jeff Bezos and set off a firestorm of criticism.
Critics of the move speculated that Bezos, one of the richest people in the world and founder of Amazon, was trying to curry favor with Harris rival Donald Trump and avoid retribution should the ex-president be reelected.
It was reported 200,000 people canceled subscriptions in outrage over the decision.
Billionaire Amazon founder and owner of The Washington Post Jeff Bezos made the decision for the newspaper to not make an endorsement in the 2024 presidential election
But Bezos defended his decision in an op-ed of his own in the newspaper on Monday.
What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias, Bezos wrote. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one.
However, endorsements in presidential elections by newspapers are not written by news teams but by the completely separate editorial boards which write opinion content.
Members of The Posts editorial board had reportedly even drafted an endorsement of Harris before it was squashed by Bezos.
The newspapers own former executive editor Marty Baron called the decision cowardly.
Bezos claimed in his op-ed that he wished they had made the eleventh hour decision earlier and it was not some intentional strategy.
The Amazon founder has owned The Washington Post since 2013.
Former President Donald Trump met with executives from Bezos Blue Origin the same day The Washington Post publisher said it would not make an endorsement in the 2024 election. Bezos denies there was a quid pro quo
Its editorial board made endorsements in both the 2016 and 2020 elections, backing Hillary Clinton and then Joe Biden over Trump.
Just hours before publisher announced the decision not to endorse on Friday, Trump met with executives from Blue Origin, a space company also founded by Bezos.
But he claimed he had no advance knowledge of that meeting and wrote there was no quid pro quo involved.
Neither campaign nor candidate was consulted or informed at any level or in any way about this decision. It was made entirely internally, Bezos wrote.