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Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele went off on a brutal attack on Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos for his part in spiking a Washington Post endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, telling the owner of paper to sell it if he's afraid of Donald Trump.

Reacting to the furor of the venerable paper which broke the Watergate break-in story that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation on Aug. 8, 1974, Steele, from his perch on MSNBC's "The Weekend" bluntly stated Bezos has no idea what he is doing.

Noting the paper's "Democracy dies in darkness" now-diminished slogan, Steele ranted, "You just turned out the lights, Jeff Bezos, you just turned out the lights on the Washington Post because you were so afraid, my god, 'Donald Trump will come after my business.'"

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"Here's the deal," he continued. "If you can't handle it, sell the paper! Because why did you own it if you are going to do this with that? Same with the L.A. Times. If you can't take that heat, get out of that business because it is not a business for you."

"You cannot bring that mindset, you don't have a journalistic mindset, you don't understand what the First Amendment means to the men and women who actually do that job every day," he stated before exclaiming, "There is a reason your newsroom right now is pissed off at your dumb behind because you buckled. You put it on your masthead and then you took it down because you are afraid of Donald Trump ."

"I don't get what the hell everybody is so afraid of this guy for," he told his co-hosts. "There are more of us willing to stand in the light so it doesn't go dark and you are turning out the lights on your own newspaper"

"Go ahead. See what happens. He is still going to come after you if he wins, right?" he concluded.

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On Saturday morning, MSNBC political analyst Elise Jordan expressed astonishment and anger over Donald Trump's ignorance about Nazis and Adolf Hitler which was revealed in his conversations with his former White House chief of staff.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Jordan — a former speechwriter in President George W. Bush's administration — was asked about the impact of Gen. John Kelly's admission that Trump found admirable qualities in the Nazi leader.

According to the analyst, she believes it has given an assist to Vice President Kamala Harris as she makes the case that her presidential opponent is a fascist.

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That, in turn, led her to point out that Harris seems to be getting under Trump's skin with the attacks before she turned back to Trump's lack of knowledge about the Nazis.

"I thought the Hitler comment was just, I mean, jaw-dropping, even though we have heard it several iterations of that over the years," she told the panel. "It is not new he denigrates the military and sympathizes with authoritarians and dictators. What I thought was so effective is she [Harris] used it in the CNN town hall in the way she actually said, he is a fascist, saying what she thinks, being authentic, just putting it out there."

"You know, the Trump campaign, I think it had impact," she reported. "They got up an ad immediately of the Holocaust survivor. You know Republicans, you know they are on top of it and did not waste any time getting that out."

She then exclaimed, "John Kelly has to explain to Trump, 'No, you don't want generals like Hitler. They killed millions of innocent people by sending them to the gas chambers.' Jesus Christ, why are we having this conversation?"

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Some of the biggest names in politics and entertainment have come out in the closing days of the 2024 presidential campaign to rally supporters and ended up delivering Kamala Harris’ “most compelling closing arguments,” according to a columnist for The Atlantic.

Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, Tyler Perry, Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama and Beyoncé have all joined the vice president on-stage in recent days — and The Atlantic’s John Hendrickson wrote Friday that they “were her best messengers.”

Mega chart-topper Beyoncé delivered a simple message to Americans while rallying supporters of Kamala Harris at a packed Houston stadium on Friday: “We need you.”

“For all the men and women in this room and watching around the country: We need you,” the Houston native said during her short remarks that immediately followed a speech by her one-time Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland. The group’s popular 1999 hit “Independent Woman, Part 1” welcomed the pair as they took the stage.

Beyoncé was expected to appear Friday in her hometown of Houston at a campaign rally for Vice President Kamala Harris with less than two weeks until Election Day in what polls show is a razor-thin race.

Harris rallygoers will likely recognize Beyonce’s 2016 track “Freedom," which has become the campaign's anthem. At the rally, Harris was expected to feature women who have been affected by Texas’ restrictive abortion laws, according to The Associated Press.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper had a blunt response to new sentiments from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) essentially accusing Vice President Kamala Harris of inviting another assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump by criticizing his obsession with Adolf Hitler's generals.

"The Vice President's words more closely resemble those of President Trump's second would-be assassin than her own earlier appeal to civility," they wrote. “Vice President Harris may want the American people to entrust her with the sacred duty of executive authority. But first, she must abandon the base and irresponsible rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions. We have both been briefed on the ongoing and persistent threats to former President Donald Trump by adversaries to the United States, and we call on the Vice President to take these threats seriously, stop escalating the threat environment, and help ensure President Trump has the necessary resources to be protected from those threats.”

Political commentator Elie Mystal on Friday called on Washington Post readers to cancel their subscriptions after news broke that the editorial board would not endorse a presidential candidate in the upcoming election.

Mystal expressed outrage after the Post announced it would return to a 1960 policy of not issuing endorsements — and legendary former editor Marty Baron argued the reason was fear of former President Donald Trump.