Former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin joined MSNBC on Saturday and blasted her former employer, accusing the Washington Post of trying to “ingratiate” itself with President Donald Trump.
“They seem to think that their press should shut up, should calm down, shouldn’t bother Donald Trump so much. And so you see, for example, the refusal to endorse Donald Trump, which was the editorial position of the Los Angeles Times, owned by another billionaire, and the Washington Post,” she said.
Rubin, a former conservative writer who announced during the first Trump administration that she was no longer conservative, recently left the paper after its owner, Jeff Bezos, barred the editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
“You also see these billionaires giving money to the President of the United States. And yucking it there on the dais. This is not how a free and independent press behaves. “Their obligation is to the public, not to themselves, to advance their businesses and certainly not to ingratiate themselves with Donald Trump,” Rubin added.
Rubin said that Paul Krugman, a former New York Times columnist, spoke to the Columbia Journalism Review about why he left the paper in 2024 and said he was being bullied at the Times.
“Paul Krugman just had an interview with Columbia Journalism magazine, explaining that he was told to write less, that he was being edited more. This is Paul Krugman, a Nobel laureate and a phenomenal voice in economics, basically being sarcastic. And if journalists allow this to happen, if they allow the big owners and conglomerates to suppress and suppress what they have to say, they are also enabling the authoritarian regime,” she said.
Krugman claimed during the interview that he was being treated very differently than he had been in the past at the NYT.
Rubin joined several high-profile 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 editor veteran, Matea Gold.
Rubin announced a new media outlet she formed with Norm Eisen, a CNN legal analyst who she vowed was “openly pro-democracy,” during the MSNBC interview.
In a statement about her decision to step down, Rubin said the paper had gone from bad to worse.
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