By Oliver Darcy
Bezos Addresses WaPo Backlash: Jeff Bezos really wants those government contracts. The Amazon billionaire appeared for an interview with Andrew Ross SorkinWednesday afternoon at The New York Times Dealbook Summit, saying he is “very optimistic” and “hopeful” for Donald Trump’s second presidency. (Maybe Bezos is not yet aware of some of the extremists Trump is trying to stuff his administration with?) Asked by Sorkin about Trump’s menacing rhetoric toward the news media, Bezos only replied that he would “try to talk him out of that idea” the press is the enemy. Good luck to him! Earlier in the conference, Bezos said he was “very proud of the decision” that The Washington Post declined to make an endorsement in the high-stakes 2024 race. Bezos rejected the notion that his decision to block his editorial board’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris created more distrust, saying he doesn’t “follow that logic.” And he claimed it was “far from cowardly because we knew there would be blowback.” Sure.
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