Robert Kagan, editor-at-large of the Washington Post and a persistent neoconservative critic of Republican former President Donald Trump, resigned from the newspaper’s editorial board Friday, according to multiple media reports, hours after it declined to endorse anyone for president for the first time since 1988.
Kagan in editorials painted a grim picture of second Trump term, warning it will be a dictatorship. He is married to Victoria Nuland, a former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Biden-Harris administration and a staunch advocate of Ukraine in its war with Russia.
Members of the Post’s editorial board were surprised Friday when they learned about the decision not to endorse from top opinion editor David Shipley, Semafor reported. The board drafted an endorsement of Harris earlier this month, which was sent to the newspaper’s owner, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who reportedly pressured publisher and CEO Will Levis to not give an endorsement.
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