{"id":119000,"date":"2024-10-27T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119000"},"modified":"2024-10-27T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T09:13:00","slug":"this-is-a-straight-jeff-bezos-donald-trump-quid-pro-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119000","title":{"rendered":"This Is a Straight Jeff Bezos-Donald Trump Quid Pro Quo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/the-washington-post\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/the-washington-post\/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/the-washington-post\"><i>The Washington Post<\/i><\/a><i>\u2019s<\/i> outgoing editor-at-large and longtime columnist has made explosive claims that its owner <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/jeff-bezos\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/jeff-bezos\/\"><u>Jeff Bezos<\/u><\/a> struck a deal with <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/donald-j-trump\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/donald-j-trump\/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/donald-j-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> in order to kill the newspaper\u2019s endorsement of Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Robert Kagan, who resigned from his position on Friday after more than two decades at the publication, told the Daily Beast that Trump\u2019s <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/is-this-the-reason-jeff-bezos-owned-washington-post-didnt-endorse-kamala-harris-blue-origin-donald-trump\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/is-this-the-reason-jeff-bezos-owned-washington-post-didnt-endorse-kamala-harris-blue-origin-donald-trump\/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/is-this-the-reason-jeff-bezos-owned-washington-post-didnt-endorse-kamala-harris-blue-origin-donald-trump\/\">meeting with executives<\/a> of Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space company the same day that the <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/amazon\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/amazon\/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a> founder killed a plan to support Harris was proof of the backroom deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cTrump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do, and then met with the Blue Origin people,\u201d he said on Saturday. \u201cWhich tells us that there was an actual deal made, meaning that Bezos communicated, or through his people, communicated directly with Trump, and they set up this quid pro quo.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media-item b-article-body__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Robert Kagan (R)\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/J2V53NKNSVFHLLGTFUCIB63N6A.jpg?auth=f7041e94f8f581c9e7b81403c5283df1aeebfc11597d8b9df85cad436c0b82fb&amp;width=800&amp;height=450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/J2V53NKNSVFHLLGTFUCIB63N6A.jpg?auth=f7041e94f8f581c9e7b81403c5283df1aeebfc11597d8b9df85cad436c0b82fb&amp;width=274&amp;height=154 274w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/J2V53NKNSVFHLLGTFUCIB63N6A.jpg?auth=f7041e94f8f581c9e7b81403c5283df1aeebfc11597d8b9df85cad436c0b82fb&amp;width=400&amp;height=225 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/J2V53NKNSVFHLLGTFUCIB63N6A.jpg?auth=f7041e94f8f581c9e7b81403c5283df1aeebfc11597d8b9df85cad436c0b82fb&amp;width=768&amp;height=432 768w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/J2V53NKNSVFHLLGTFUCIB63N6A.jpg?auth=f7041e94f8f581c9e7b81403c5283df1aeebfc11597d8b9df85cad436c0b82fb&amp;width=1024&amp;height=576 1024w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/J2V53NKNSVFHLLGTFUCIB63N6A.jpg?auth=f7041e94f8f581c9e7b81403c5283df1aeebfc11597d8b9df85cad436c0b82fb&amp;width=1440&amp;height=810 1440w\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><figcaption class=\"c-media-item__fig-caption\"><span class=\"c-media-item__caption\">Robert Kagan (R). <\/span><span class=\"c-media-item__credit\">Win McNamee\/Getty Images <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The alleged collusion between Bezos and Trump, Kagan says, \u201cis just the beginning,\u201d adding that if the former president wins a second term, there will be \u201ca lot of self censorship [in the media] and a lot of changing course just to be sure that they\u2019re not going to be punished.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kagan became a vocal anti-Trump voice in 2016, writing about the dangers of authoritarianism in the event of a second Trump presidency, and about how the former president could jeopardize American democracy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 2023, Kagan <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/11\/30\/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/11\/30\/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan\/\"><u>warned<\/u><\/a> about Trump\u2019s potential influence on the media, saying, \u201cMedia owners will discover that a hostile and unbridled president can make their lives unpleasant in all sorts of ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bezos knows first hand the consequences of criticizing the former president. <i>The Post<\/i>\u2019s 2016 endorsement of Hillary Clinton is <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/is-this-the-reason-jeff-bezos-owned-washington-post-didnt-endorse-kamala-harris-blue-origin-donald-trump\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/is-this-the-reason-jeff-bezos-owned-washington-post-didnt-endorse-kamala-harris-blue-origin-donald-trump\/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/is-this-the-reason-jeff-bezos-owned-washington-post-didnt-endorse-kamala-harris-blue-origin-donald-trump\/\">widely thought<\/a> to have led to him losing out on a $10 billion cloud computing defense contract awarded by the Trump administration. And, throughout the former president\u2019s first term, he <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-accuses-amazon-of-postal-scam-demands-washington-post-register-as-a-lobbyist\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-accuses-amazon-of-postal-scam-demands-washington-post-register-as-a-lobbyist\/\"><u>repeatedly attacked<\/u><\/a> Bezos and Amazon, accusing them of scamming the United States Postal Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis is what we have to look forward to,\u201d Kagan said. \u201cAll Trump has to do is threaten the corporate chiefs who run these organizations with real financial loss, and they will bend the knee.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media-item b-article-body__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Donald Trump speaks with Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, and Jeff Bezos, Chief Executive Officer of Amazon.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/3U7RWG5CIJAMPGCV33PHI2KWJ4.jpg?auth=ccdd7811f7e0c753bfd4864f1eff6c24f6cd6c0333cf092d32c777f2c43306ab&amp;width=800&amp;height=450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/3U7RWG5CIJAMPGCV33PHI2KWJ4.jpg?auth=ccdd7811f7e0c753bfd4864f1eff6c24f6cd6c0333cf092d32c777f2c43306ab&amp;width=274&amp;height=154 274w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/3U7RWG5CIJAMPGCV33PHI2KWJ4.jpg?auth=ccdd7811f7e0c753bfd4864f1eff6c24f6cd6c0333cf092d32c777f2c43306ab&amp;width=400&amp;height=225 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/3U7RWG5CIJAMPGCV33PHI2KWJ4.jpg?auth=ccdd7811f7e0c753bfd4864f1eff6c24f6cd6c0333cf092d32c777f2c43306ab&amp;width=768&amp;height=432 768w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/3U7RWG5CIJAMPGCV33PHI2KWJ4.jpg?auth=ccdd7811f7e0c753bfd4864f1eff6c24f6cd6c0333cf092d32c777f2c43306ab&amp;width=1024&amp;height=576 1024w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/3U7RWG5CIJAMPGCV33PHI2KWJ4.jpg?auth=ccdd7811f7e0c753bfd4864f1eff6c24f6cd6c0333cf092d32c777f2c43306ab&amp;width=1440&amp;height=810 1440w\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><figcaption class=\"c-media-item__fig-caption\"><span class=\"c-media-item__caption\">Donald Trump speaks with Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, and Jeff Bezos, Chief Executive Officer of Amazon. <\/span><span class=\"c-media-item__credit\">The Washington Post\/The Washington Post via Getty Im <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While the billionaire tech mogul did not buckle to Trump\u2019s threats in years past, Kagan said that Bezos\u2019 shock decision to pull the Harris endorsement had \u201cobviously been in the works for some time,\u201d describing his formerly hands-off approach to owning the<i> Post<\/i> as \u201ca lot of Kabuki.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe now know what Bezos\u2019 intention was, therefore we now know why he hired Will Lewis,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe were the ones who were naive in thinking that there was anything else going on here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/will-lewis\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/will-lewis\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/will-lewis\"><u>Lewis<\/u><\/a>, who is the newspaper\u2019s publisher, <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/washington-post-publisher-will-lewis-falls-on-sword-to-defend-jeff-bezos\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/washington-post-publisher-will-lewis-falls-on-sword-to-defend-jeff-bezos\/\"><u>claimed<\/u><\/a> that the<i> Post<\/i>\u2019s last-minute nixing of its endorsement had nothing to do with its owner, and was instead because, \u201cI do not believe in presidential endorsements.\u201d His claim contradicts <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/jeff-bezos-overrode-his-own-publisher-to-kill-washington-posts-kamala-harris-endorsement\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/jeff-bezos-overrode-his-own-publisher-to-kill-washington-posts-kamala-harris-endorsement\/\"><u>reports<\/u><\/a> from sources that Lewis \u201cfought tooth and nail\u201d to keep the endorsement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Kagan, \u201call the facts\u201d lead in the direction of Bezos attempting to transform the<i> Post<\/i> into something akin to <i>The Wall Street Journal<\/i>, a center right \u201canti-anti-Trump editorial slant,\u201d with Lewis by his side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSome journalists will stick around for that. Some will leave. If they leave, they can be replaced,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/ex-washington-post-editor-robert-kagan-this-is-a-straight-jeff-bezos-donald-trump-quid-pro-quo\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post\u2019s outgoing editor-at-large and longtime columnist has made explosive claims that its owner Jeff Bezos struck a deal with Donald Trump in order to kill the newspaper\u2019s endorsement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119000\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}