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Washington Post Denies Bezos 'Quid Pro Quo' With Trump in Exchange for Killing Presidential Endorsements

  • Bias Rating

    14% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    36% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -42% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Blue Origin CEO David Limp told The Wall Street Journal on Sunday that the meeting lasted only a few minutes and that he and Trump shook hands and "exchanged pleasantries about space.
48% : "CNN reported that Trump also spoke recently to Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, which Bezos co-founded and now serves as executive chairman.
46% : "Which tells us that there was an actual deal made, meaning that Bezos communicated, or through his people, communicated directly with Trump, and they set up this quid pro quo.
44% : Both Blue Origin and Amazon compete for massive federal government contracts that Trump would have influence over if he were elected president.
43% : "Trump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do, and then met with the Blue Origin people," Kagan said.
17% : He noted that executives from Bezos' Blue Origin space company met with Trump in Texas on the same day the paper was stopped from issuing an endorsement of Trump's Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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