Vice President Kamala Harris inflamed rival Donald Trump and his “billionaires club” 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 candidate how she felt about major publications like The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times “refusing to endorse a candidate.”
The vice president called the decisions “disappointing,” but said there is another aspect to them.
“It gets back to my point about who is Donald Trump? Because he is the one running for office with me,” she said.
“They’re billionaires in Donald Trump’s club,” she claimed. “That’s who’s in his club. That’s who he hangs out with. That’s what he cares about,” Harris continued.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during her rally in Ann Arbor, MI on October 28
The vice president blasted the ex-president, claiming that was why he passed a “huge tax cut for billionaires and the biggest corporations” during his time in office.
She argued that he will do it again if re-elected, accusing him of not pursuing policies that target the middle class.
Her comments come after The Washington Post revealed it would not endorse the presidential race for the first time in 36 years.
The decision was made by Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of the Pulitzer-winning newspaper, and sparked 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 retaliation if the ex-president is re-elected.
It was reported that 200,000 people canceled their subscriptions in outrage at the decision.
Billionaire Amazon founder and owner of The Washington Post Jeff Bezos made the decision for the newspaper not to make an endorsement in the 2024 presidential election
But Bezos defended his decision in his own op-ed in the newspaper on Monday.
“What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias,” Bezos wrote. ‘A perception of non-independence. Ending it is a decision of principle, and it is the right decision.”
However, newspapers’ presidential election endorsements are not written by news teams, but by completely separate editorial staffs writing opinion content.
Members of The Post’s editorial staff even reportedly drafted an endorsement of Harris before it was crushed by Bezos.
The paper’s former editor-in-chief Marty Baron called the decision “cowardly.”
Bezos claimed in his op-ed that he wished they had made the decision “sooner” and that it was “not a deliberate 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 publisher of the Washington Post said it would not endorse in the 2024 election. Bezos denies that there was any quid pro quo
The editorial board endorsed Hillary Clinton and then Joe Biden over Trump in both the 2016 and 2020 elections.
Just hours before the publisher announced Friday that it would not approve the decision, Trump met with executives from Blue Origin, a space company also founded by Bezos.
But he claimed he had no prior knowledge of that meeting, writing that there was “no quid pro quo” involved.
“Neither campaign nor candidate was consulted or informed at any level about this decision. It was created entirely internally,” Bezos wrote.