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.
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The attacks have focused on the timing of Walz’s retirement, his eventual rank, and subsequent statements that could be construed to suggest he served in Afghanistan or in combat. Walz deployed to Italy in support of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and retired after 24 years in the Minnesota National Guard to run for Congress in 2005, at a time when his unit was widely expected to deploy to Iraq but before it received official orders. He reached the rank of command sergeant major but retired at one level down...