Former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin joined MSNBC on Saturday to lambaste her former employer, accusing the Post of trying to "curry favor" with President Donald Trump.
"They seem to think their news media should be silenced, should be quiet, should not have Donald Trump so upset. So you see, for example, the refusal to support Donald Trump, which is bipartisan in L.A. and L.A. Editorial positions The Angel Times and The Washington Post are owned by another billionaire," she said.
Rubin is a former conservative writer who declared herself no longer a conservative during Trump's first administration. Rubin recently quit the paper after the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, blocked the editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
"You'll also see these billionaires donating money to the President of the United States. And then shouting from the podium. That's not how an independent free media behaves. Their obligation is to the public, not to themselves, to advance their own development business, and certainly not to curry favor with Donald Trump,” Rubin added.
A former Washington Post columnist lashed out at the newspaper after he resigned to start a new outlet in an interview with MSNBC. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
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Rubin said former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman talked about his reasons for leaving the paper in 2024 in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review and said that the New York Times remains committed to him. silence.
"Paul Krugman just gave an interview to the Columbia Journalism Review, explaining that he was told to write less and that his editing job was more rigorous. This is Paul Krugman, a "If journalists allow this to happen, if they allow owners and big business to suppress and suppress their speech, they are also being authoritarian." The regime facilitated it,” she said.
Krugman claimed in the interview that the treatment he received at The New York Times was very different from the past.
Rubin joins several high-profile staffers who have announced their departures from other outlets, including reporters Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Michael Sherer, Tyler Page and Leigh-Ann Caldwell, columnist Charles · Ryan, health and science editor Stephen Smith and senior editor Mattia Gold.
Washington Post political commentator Jennifer Rubin ((Screenshot/Gutfield!))
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Rubin announced the new media organization she formed with CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen, vowing in an interview with MSNBC that the organization would be "publicly pro-democracy."
Rubin said in a statement about her decision to leave that the paper was deteriorating.
Rubin said the Post "has failed spectacularly at a moment when we need a strong, progressive free press most."
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“The corporate and billionaire owners of major media organizations have betrayed the loyalty of their audiences and undermined journalism’s sacred mission of defending, protecting and advancing democracy,” Rubin wrote. Billionaire Owners of The Washington Post The perpetrators and conscripted management were among the criminals.”
Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.