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Jeff Bezos is no longer relentlessly focused on customer satisfaction

The man who only believes in capitalism managed to do capitalism wrong.

Now, there have been multiple reports at this point — from NPR, The Columbia Journalism Review, and The Washington Post itself — that the call to stop endorsing candidates came from Jeff Bezos himself. The same day as Lewis’s bizarre announcement of The Post’s non-endorsement, executives from Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin, met with presidential candidate Donald Trump. The most-read was by the paper’s beloved humorist Alexandra Petri: “ It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president.” When I checked The Post ’s site again today, the top two stories were about the controversy.

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