"Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports

"The decision not to publish was made by The Post's owner " Amazon
founder Jeff Bezos," The Post reported, citing two sources briefed on the events.

Trump, while president, had been critical of Bezos and The Post.

In a 2019 lawsuit, Amazon claimed it had lost a $10 billion cloud computing contract with the Pentagon to Microsoft because Trump had used "improper pressure ... "to harm his perceived political enemy" Bezos."

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"Marty Baron, the former editor of The Post, in a tweet called The Post's non-endorsement "cowardice, with democracy as its casualty."

@realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others)," Baron wrote.

"Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage."

Rep. Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California, in his own tweet on the news wrote, "The first step towards fascism is when the free press cowers in fear."