MSNBC host claims Trump 'forced' the Washington Post not to endorse Kamala Harris

MSNBC big Mika Brzezinski said erstwhile President Trump "forced" nan Washington Post editorial committee to not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris successful nan title during an question and reply connected ABC's "The View."

The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked Brzezinski astir why nan Washington Post declined to endorse Harris successful an predetermination that is truthful high-stakes.

The Post announced on Friday that its editorial committee wouldn't beryllium endorsing either statesmanlike candidate, and said they wouldn't beryllium giving statesmanlike endorsements successful immoderate early elections, either. 

"That everything that Trump is threatening, you request to believe, and it’s already happening. If billionaires crook to his will … He threatens, disparages, demeans people, but he besides makes things hap for himself," Brzezinski began.

"Morning Joe" big Mika Brzezinski joined nan co-hosts of "The View" connected Monday and blasted nan Washington Post for not endorsing Kamala Harris. (Screenshot/ABC)

WASHINGTON POST REPORTS LIBERALS ARE CANCELING SUBSCRIPTIONS OVER PAPER'S DECISION NOT TO ENDORSE VP HARRIS

"He sewage nan Washington Post and Jeff Bezos, who’s supposedly a powerful, superb billionaire. He sewage Bezos to backmost down, nan caput of Amazon. Runs nan Washington Post, owns it. He sewage them to extremity what they person been doing timelessly, which is endorsing a candidate. He forced them to not endorse. That’s beautiful scary, guys," she said.

The determination by nan Post prompted galore liberals to cancel their subscriptions to nan paper. The Post's editorial committee endorsed Hillary Clinton complete Trump successful 2016 and President Biden successful 2020.

The editorial committee has mostly only endorsed Democratic candidates successful presidential, Senate and legislature elections. Besides an endorsement of Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower successful 1952, nan Post has only ever endorsed Democrats for president since 1976.

Post editor astatine ample Robert Kagan resigned because of nan decision, and erstwhile executive editor Marty Baron denounced it arsenic "cowardice."

The Washington Post will not endorse a campaigner successful nan 2024 statesmanlike election. (Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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"This is cowardice, pinch populist arsenic its casualty. @realdonaldtrump will spot this arsenic an invitation to further intimidate proprietor @jeffbezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness astatine an institution famed for courage," Baron wrote connected X.

The Post has antecedently called erstwhile President Trump nan worst president successful modern history.

Fox News Digital reached retired to nan Washington Post for comment.

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Fox News' David Rutz contributed to this report.