Washington Post Makes Shocking Endorsement of Trump Nominees, But Some Got ‘Unacceptable’ Rating

In a surprising move, the liberal Washington Post editorial board endorsed 19 of President Trump’s Cabinet picks.

The Washington Post editorial board endorses every high level Trump nominee for confirmation except Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., and Russ Vought

Good to see, @JeffBezos pic.twitter.com/RMOHaZJiRl

— Martin Walsh (@martinwalsh__) January 13, 2025

Interesting that their reason for “unacceptable” for RFK Jr, is “bird flu on the rise.”

Very telling.

Also, who still uses the term ‘conspiracy theorists’? We’ve been right just about 100% of the time over the last 4+ years.

Rolling Stone reports:

The Washington Post’s editorial board evaluated President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees today, ahead of their confirmation hearings, which begin on Tuesday. In it, the board called Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, “qualified” and “serious.” Bondi previously lobbied for Amazon; the Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and executive chair.

“Florida’s former attorney general is qualified; lawyers who have worked with her report that she is serious,” the Post editorial board wrote of Bondi, who was previously Florida’s attorney general and served on Trump’s defense team during his first impeachment trial.

While the board acknowledged, “We would not have picked any of his choices for our hypothetical Cabinet,” it said that is “not the standard” that “should apply when evaluating executive nominees for Senate confirmation. The president-elect won the election. He deserves deference in building his team, and the Americans who elected him deserve an operational government, absent disqualifying deficiencies in competence, temperament or philosophy.” (The editorial board gave two of Trump’s 15 Cabinet Secretary nominees — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — the thumbs-down.)

Naming Bondi as qualified might seem odd, given the paper’s previous reporting on the Trump loyalist. But in light of Bezos killing the Post‘s endorsement of Kamala Harris, Bezos sending a hearty congrats along with his fellow billionaires to Trump following the election, Bondi’s previous Amazon lobbying connection, and the Post‘s refusal to run a cartoon critical of Bezos from Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes (who then resigned), the paper expressing support for Bondi to lead the Justice Department feels like what one should expect in the years ahead.

I wonder why they don’t like Tulsi Gabbard?

Because she’s a force to be reckoned with?

Tulsi Gabbard calling out The View never gets old. pic.twitter.com/vQOlqYDqWj

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