Anti-Trump globalist Jennifer Rubin has quit her position at The Washington Post, blaming its owner, tech billionaire Jeff Bezos, for allegedly helping President-elect Donald J. Trump win the 2024 election. Rubin released a statement on Monday, January 13, stating, “Jeff Bezos and his cronies accommodate and enable the most acute threat to American democracy – Donald Trump – at a time when a vibrant free press is more essential than ever to our democracy’s survival and capacity to thrive.”
WaPo refused to endorse Democratic candidate Kamala Harris during the presidential race, the first time the paper had not made a presidential endorsement in 36 years. The move reportedly cost the paper as many as 250,000 subscribers.
Rubin herself is fanatically anti-Trump and participated in a weekly anti-Trump strategy call last year before the election. She was joined in the weekly Zoom calls by other notable anti-Trump fanatics, such as neocon Bill Kristol, cable news analyst and private parts exposer Jeffrey Toobin, and pervert-linked Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway.
According to Rubin, Conway will join her in her new media venture, The Contrarian, along with Laurence Tribe, who also participated in the weekly calls.
Norm Eisen, an attorney linked to the States United Democracy Center, a far-left non-profit lawfare group, is co-founding the outlet with Rubin. Eisen hosted the weekly anti-Trump calls and participated in much of the lawfare against Trump.
Rubin’s departure from WaPo comes just months after another anti-Trump liberal, Taylor Lorenz, departed after calling President Joe Biden a “war criminal” while attending a speech at the White House.
The Bezos-owned outlet appears to be struggling. Significant layoffs were announced earlier this month, particularly affecting the newspaper business division. Several other high-profile journalists, including Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer, and others, have already left the paper.