Marty Baron

I mean, look, you may remember that Trump talked about doubling, tripling, quadrupling the postal rates for the delivery of Amazon packages, that sort of thing.

It was numbers pulled out of thin air, of course.

He hadn't done a study of any sort and said that the Post was just a lobbying organization for Jeff Bezos, that it was a tax dodge, all this nonsense, none of it true, not even close to true.

And then toward the end of his administration, Trump's administration, he actually interfered to make sure that a big cloud computing contract with the Defense Department, $10 billion, did not go to Amazon.

And it did not go to Amazon.

And then there was a lot of litigation around it.

And it was rebid and all this sort of stuff.

But very complicated.

But Bezos stood up to that.

In fact, I mean, people forget.

I mean, Bezos and Amazon, they filed a lawsuit against the Defense Department for the way that it awarded that contract.

And they called upon Trump to actually be deposed.

to be deposed.

And they said that the interference by Trump was because of his animosity toward Bezos because of his ownership of the Washington Post.

I thought that was all good.

I admired him for doing that.

I admired the support that he gave me.

I admired the support that he gave my colleagues.

I admired his support for the Post and its mission and for the press generally.

And so what I did is I told it like it was.