The Washington Post, before declining to take an official side in the 2024 presidential election, called Donald Trump the 'worst president of modern times.'
The Washington Post editorial board hasn't endorsed a single Republican for president over the past 50 years. It isn't endorsing one this cycle, either, but it's the fact that it isn't endorsing Kamala Harris either that has caused yet another uproar at an elite media institution. 'The winner of the election is going to be sitting down the street from The Washington Post,' longtime Post media writer Paul Farhi told Fox News Digital.
Had the Post's announcement been made a year ago, it might not have caused such a stir. But 11 days before a consequential election, after years of calling Trump an unfit disgrace, its decision set off cold fury at the paper and unprecedented outrage from former Post luminaries. At least two members of the Post's staff have resigned.
In 2016 and 2020, the Post enthusiastically endorsed Hillary Clinton and Biden against Trump. It called him 'dreadful' and 'uniquely unqualified' in 2016. In 2020, it referred to Trump as 'the worst president of modern times.' Farhi, who left the the Post after 35 years in 2023, is among those who was puzzled by the logic in deciding not to offer an endorsement that would reflect the newspaper's values, even if it wouldn't move the needle with voters.
The Post has a very long track record of having written story after story investigating Trump, and in fact, lots of editorials about Trump's behavior and Trump's record in office, so why would an endorsement be the thing that triggers Trump?' Farhi asked.
Today has been an absolute stab in the back,' left-wing Post columnist Karen Attiah wrote on Friday. 'What an insult to those of us who have literally put our careers and lives on the line, to call out threats to human rights and democracy.'
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