Jeff Bezos breaks silence to deliver 'hard truth' about Washington Post refusal to endorse Kamala Harris as he denies quid pro quo with Trump

Jeff Bezos has surgery his soundlessness following The Washington Post's arguable determination to artifact an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.

The billionaire penned a lengthy op-ed that insisted nan determination was not connected to the Amazon CEO's immense business interests while insisting that endorsements 'create a cognition of bias.'

Bezos based on nan newspaper's ending its long-standing believe of endorsing a campaigner is 1 based connected principles. 

'Presidential endorsements do thing to extremity nan scales of an election. No undecided voters successful Pennsylvania are going to say, 'I'm going pinch Newspaper A's endorsement.' None,' Bezos said.

'What statesmanlike endorsements really do is create a cognition of bias. A cognition of non-independence. Ending them is simply a opinionated decision, and it's nan correct one.'

Whether opinionated aliases not, much than 200,000 group canceled their integer subscriptions for nan Washington Post by midday connected Monday.

Not each nan cancellations return effect immediately, NPR explained, but it described nan dumping of nan insubstantial arsenic 'a tidal activity of cancellations'.

The fig represents astir 8 percent of nan paper's paid circulation of 2.5 cardinal subscribers, which includes people arsenic well.

The number of cancellations only continued to turn Monday afternoon. 

A bid columnists person besides resigned from nan Washington Post successful caller days as nan insubstantial deals pinch nan fallout of proprietor Jeff Bezos's determination to artifact a prepared endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

In a station connected Friday, William Lewis, nan patient and main executive serviceman of nan newspaper said it would not beryllium making an endorsement of a statesmanlike campaigner successful nan November 5 election, nor successful immoderate early statesmanlike election.

'We are returning to our roots of not endorsing statesmanlike candidates,' Lewis wrote.

'The Washington Post's determination not to make an endorsement successful nan statesmanlike run is simply a unspeakable mistake,' wrote 20 columnists successful an sentiment portion connected nan Post's ain website, adding that it 'represents an abandonment of nan basal editorial convictions of nan newspaper that we love.'