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

MSNBC big Mika Brzezinski said erstwhile President Trump "forced" the Washington Post editorial committee to not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris successful the contention during an interrogation connected ABC's "The View."

The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked Brzezinski astir wherefore the 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 aboriginal elections, either. 

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

"Morning Joe" big Mika Brzezinski joined the co-hosts of "The View" connected Monday and blasted the 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 got the Washington Post and Jeff Bezos, who’s supposedly a powerful, superb billionaire. He got Bezos to backmost down, the caput of Amazon. Runs the Washington Post, owns it. He got them to halt what they person been doing timelessly, which is endorsing a candidate. He forced them to not endorse. That’s beauteous scary, guys," she said.

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

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

Post exertion astatine ample Robert Kagan resigned due to the fact that of the decision, and erstwhile enforcement exertion Marty Baron denounced it arsenic "cowardice."

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

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

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

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

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Fox News' David Rutz contributed to this report.