Former President Trump on Wednesday falsely claimed that decisions by the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post to not endorse any candidate in the presidential race reflected a poor opinion at the newspapers of Vice President Kamala Harris and a favorable opinion of him.
“You know what they’re really saying? Because they only endorse Democrats,” Trump said at a campaign rally in North Carolina. “They’re saying this Democrat’s no good. They’re no good. And they think I’m doing a great job. They just don’t want to say it.”
The editorial boards of both papers have been staunchly anti-Trump for years, and both had planned to endorse Harris before the papers’ billionaire owners stopped them from doing so.
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And neither owner criticized Harris or praised Trump when explaining their decisions.
The Times’ owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, has said he feared that picking one candidate over another would only exacerbate already deep divisions in the country.
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