Jeff Bezos Finally Addresses Trump Rumors After Reports He’s Afraid the President Will Seek ‘Vengeance’ After Making Himself an ‘Enemy’
Jeff Bezos may be better known as the founder of Amazon, but these days Bezos is not involved in the day-to-day operations of the company he founded. However, he got a little more involved in another acquisition, The Washington Post. Bezos was forced to field questions about his connections to President Trump because of his appearance on the Post.
Bezos reportedly hosts a team Washington Post editors and reporters for lunch at his D.C. mansion on Thursday. To keep the meeting private, all of the guests had to leave their phones out. However, some details of the meeting have already been reported.
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Situation He said Bezos fielded angry questions from invited journalists on everything from layoffs at the Washington Post to the Amazon documentary about First Lady Melania Trump.
“One employee asked Bezos if Amazon’s involvement in Melania Trump’s documentary was an effort to curry favor with the Trump administration,” Status said. “Bezos denied this allegation, became defensive, and insisted it was a ‘feasible’ deal in which he was not personally involved.” He also said that the documentary is still waiting for feedback.
The documentary was directed by Brett Ratner, who faced numerous sexual assault allegations and was recently named in the Epstein files.
Bezos was also apparently grilled about what staff described as support for the Trump administration. Not only has the Washington Post been hit hard by layoffs, it has also seen many respected, experienced journalists leave the paper’s shift in ideological leanings. Three of them are Pulitzer Prize winners.
“While Bezos reiterated his support for The Post’s future, he emphasized that the newspaper’s business strategy must be driven by data, which was the case in a statement he made shortly after Will Lewis was ousted as chief executive and publisher last month,” Status reported.
However, the paper is reportedly already trying to undo some of the recent layoffs. They reached out to at least 10 fired journalists “to gauge their interest in returning to the paper in new roles,” Status reported. “Employees were stunned by the violent nature of this effort, which represented a tacit acknowledgment that the initial cuts may have gone too deep.”
This all comes after former Post editor-in-chief Martin Baron told Jen Psaki: “Briefing” The layoffs at the Washington Post are all about Trump. “I explain it by saying, ‘Donald Trump.’ That’s what happened.”
“Trump is back in office,” Baron said. “He had vowed revenge against his perceived political enemies. Jeff Bezos was viewed as a political enemy by Donald Trump for one reason and one reason only, and that was the Washington Post’s reporting.”
Barron states that the change in the newspaper’s news content is directly related to this. “This is a newspaper that prides itself on its independence, and Jeff Bezos’ behavior has suggested to readers that he is not independent at all,” Baron said. “He’s actually addicted; he’s addicted to Donald Trump.”
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