“I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone,” she wrote on X. Amazon complained in a lawsuit that this was a blatant act of retaliation by Trump, punishing Bezos for the Washington Post’s piercing coverage of his administration. That’s a chilling thought for such a beacon of accountability journalism as the Washington Post. Long hostile towards what he calls the “fake news media”, Trump has taken his vendetta against truth-seekers to a new level. That’s the same Watergate scandal that was brought into the light by that pair of courageous reporters at a newspaper called the Washington Post.

Source: Washington Post February 08, 2026 13:31 UTC