“This is #cowardice, a moment of darkness that will leave #democracy as a casualty. Donald Trump will celebrate this as an invitation to further intimidate The Post’s owner, #JeffBezos (& other media owners),” former Post executive editor #MartyBaron, who led the paper while #Trump was president, said in a text message to The Post. “History will mark a disturbing chapter of #spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.”
“This is #cowardice, w/ #democracy as its casualty,” #MartyBaron said in a post…. He added that #Trump would see it as an invitation to continue to try to intimidate #JeffBezos. “Disturbing #spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.”
#WaPo’s move follows unfurling tumult at The #LATimes, where the head of the editorial board & 2 of its writers have resigned this week to protest the decision by the owner, the #billionaire #PatrickSoonShiong, to block a planned presidential #endorsement.
#Hypocrisy, #Spinelessness, & the Triumph of Donald Trump
He said #Republican politicians would be easy to break. He was right.
By Mark Leibovich
“In the summer of 2015, back when he was still talking to traitorous reporters like me, I spent extended stretches w/ #Trump. He was in the early phase of his 1st campaign for president, though he had quickly made himself the inescapable figure of that race—as he would in pretty much every Republican contest since.
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