Liz Cheney Rips Jeff Bezos for Being ‘Afraid to Issue an Endorsement’ of Harris in WaPo: ‘I Canceled My Subscription’

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Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney attacked Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post on Saturday during an interview where she also said she had canceled her subscription to the newspaper.

Amid the Post‘s decision not to run an endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris less than two weeks before the election, the paper has been the subject of internal and external criticism – all of which has been thoroughly enjoyed online by much of the right.

However, conservative Cheney said Saturday at the 25th annual New Yorker Festival she found nothing funny about the non-endorsement, which she attributed to cowardice.

The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney said Bezos was driven by “fear” when speaking with New Yorker editor David Remnick

“On the issue of the Washington Post, look, first of all, it’s fear.” Liz Cheney continued, “When you have Jeff Bezos apparently afraid to issue an endorsement for the only candidate in the race who’s a stable responsible adult because he fears Donald Trump, that tells you why we have to work so hard to make sure that Donald Trump isn’t elected.”

“And I think also, why we ought to not forget what has happened, forget who’s taken brave and courageous stands. And I canceled my subscription to the Washington Post, just saying.”

CNN reported on Bezos’ suspected role in his publication ceasing endorsing political candidates:

Jeff Bezos has so far declined to comment on the situation, even as his own paper’s journalists reported that it was Bezos who ultimately spiked the planned endorsement. A source with knowledge told CNN on Friday that an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris had been drafted before it was squashed.