Ex-Washington Post Columnist Slams Paper, Accuses Journalists of Enabling ‘Authoritarian Regime’
Former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin joined MSNBC on Saturday and blasted her former employer, accusing the Washington Post of trying to “coddle” with President Donald Trump.
“They seem to think that their own press outlet should be muted, should be calm, shouldn’t upset Donald Trump so much. And so you see, for example, the refusal to endorse Donald Trump, who was an editorial both times in Los Angelesowned by another billionaire and the Washington Post,” she said.
Rubin, a former conservative writer who announced during Trump’s first administration that he did no longer a conservative, He recently left the paper after its owner, Jeff Bezos, stopped the editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamal Harris in the 2024 election.
“You also see these billionaires giving money to the President of the United States. And they shut them down there at the drop of a hat. That’s not how an independent free press behaves. Their obligation is to the public, not to themselves, to advance their own Enterprises, and certainly not to incorporate in Donald Trump,” Rubin added.
The ex-wapo columnist is hitting the paper after quitting and creating a new outlet during an interview on MSNBC. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
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Rubin said Paul Krugman, a former New York Times columnist, spoke to the Columbia Journalism Review about why he left the paper in 2024 and said it was time to snoop.
“Paul Krugman just had an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review, explaining that he was told to write less, to be more edited. This is Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and a phenomenal voice on economics, basically being choked out.
Krugman stated During the interview that he was treated very differently than he was in the past at the NYT.
Rubin joined several senior staffers who also announced departures for other outlets, including reporters Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, Tyler Page and Leigh Ann Caldwell, columnist Charles Lane, health and science editor Stephen Smith and veterans editor Matea Gold .
Washington Post Political Commentator Jennifer Rubin ((Screenshot/gutfeld!))
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Rubin announced the new media outlet she formed with CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen, who she vowed was “openly pro-democracy,” during an MSNBC interview.
In a statement about her decision to leave the post, Rubin said the paper went from bad to worse.
Rubin said the Washington Post “failed spectacularly at a time when we most needed an aggressive free press.”
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“The corporate and billionaire owners of the mainstream media have betrayed their sacred mission of audience and sabotage journalism – to defend, protect and advance democracy. The billionaire owners of the Washington Post and management of registered offenders are among the offenders,” Rubin wrote.
FOX News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.
