
Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and widely read around the country. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. It employs around 800 journalists and had a 2015 daily circulation of 356,768. Its digital circulation was 1,000,000 in 2018.
Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013. Tensions between he and the newsroon have continued; in 2024 and 2025, multiple personnel resigned over the paper's non-endorsement of Kamala Harris and editorial changes advanced by Bezos.
Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg has made a splash since joining the presidential race, spending more than $500 million from his self-made fortune and placing a blizzard of ads on TV and digital devices.
But Bloomberg the Democratic presidential candidate is often at odds with Bloomberg the three-term mayor, who ran as a Republican and independent. He often airbrushes parts of his record that could turn off Democratic voters.
Here’s a roundup of some of his false and misleading claims.
“I certainly supported Barack Obama and Joe Biden. He says no, but I was there both times for them, thank you very much.”
— CNN town hall, Feb. 26
Bloomberg did not endorse any candidate in 2008. He wrote an op-ed for Bloomberg View in the waning days of the 2012 campaign endorsing Obama, but later called it “backhanded” at a Goldman Sachs event in 2016.
“The second Obama election, I wrote a very backhanded endorsement of Obama, saying I thought he hadn’t done the right thing, hadn’t been good at things that I think are important,” Bloomberg said, according to a recording of his remarks obtained by CNN.