Former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin joined MSNBC on Saturday and ripped off her former employer, accusing The Washington Post of trying to “engage” themselves with President Donald Trump.
“They seem to think that their press outlet should be boring, should be laid back, shouldn't bother Donald Trump too much. And so you see, for example, Donald Trump, whose editorial position was From both the Los Angeles Times“Owned by another billionaire, The Washington Post.”
Rubin, a former conservative writer who declared during the first Trump administration that she was is no longer conservative, She recently left the paper after its owner, Jeff Bezos, stopped 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 they're moving out there on DAIS. That's not how a free, independent press behaves,” Rubin added.
The former WAPO columnist is closing the paper after quitting and starting a new outlet during an interview on MSNBC. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
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 suffering from exposure at the Times, Rubin said.
“Paul Krugman gave an interview to the Columbia Journalism Review, explaining that he was told to write less, that he was more editorial. This is Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and a great voice in the economics that journalists allow, if they allow the owners and the big conglomerates to oppress and oppress,” she said. What they say, they also enable the authoritarian regime.”
Krugman claimed During the interview he treated her very differently than he had in the past in New York City.
Rubin joins several high-profile staffers who have also announced their departures to other outlets, including reporters Josh Doocy, Ashley Parker, Michael Shearer, Tyler Paige and Leigh Ann Caldwell, columnist Charles Lane, health and science editor Stephen Smith, and veterans editor, Mattia Gould.
Washington Post political commentator Jennifer Rubin ((screenshot/gutfeld!))
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Rubin announced a new media outlet she was forming with Norm Eisen, a legal analyst for CNN, which she pledged was “overtly pro-democracy,” during an MSNBC interview.
In a statement about her decision to leave the position, Robin told the paper It went from bad to worse.
Rubin said the Post “failed spectacularly at a moment when we need a strong, aggressive freewheeling quality.”
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“The corporate and billionaire owners of mainstream media have betrayed the loyalty of their audiences and the sacred mission of journalism — to defend, protect, and advance democracy,” Rubin wrote.
Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.
