While Jeff Bezos is enjoying newlywed life after his opulent wedding to Lauren Sánchez, a former Washington Post employee is speaking out against the controversial billionaire over a “death blow” that changed the legacy publication.

After Bezos and Sánchez’s June 26 nuptials, a longtime columnist for the publication revealed the Amazon founder’s changes to The Washington Post, which he bought in 2013. Joe Davidson, who helmed The Washington Post’s Federal Insider column for the past 17 years before revealing his departure last month, penned a scathing Facebook post about Bezos this week.

Davidson revealed that Bezos dealt a “death blow” to the publication by killing the column because “it was deemed too opinionated under an unwritten and inconsistently enforced policy.”

“I have no reason to believe he was directly involved in my situation, but it would be naïve to ignore the context,” Davidson wrote, adding that Bezos’ policies and activities have projected the image of a Donald Trump supplicant.”

Davidson wrote that Bezos “blocked” The Washington Post from endorsing Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, a fact that has already led to the departure of several other staff.

“Nonetheless, Post coverage of Trump remains strong,” Davidson continued. “Yet the policy against opinion in News section columns means less critical scrutiny of Trump — a result coinciding with Bezos’s unseemly and well-documented coziness with the president.”

While Davidson doesn’t call it out in his Facebook post, it should be noted that the President’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, attended Bezos and Sánchez’s wedding alongside her husband, former Trump advisor, Jared Kushner.

Davidson called out examples of his column being stifled, including that he wasn’t allowed to describe a pay rise for federal workers as “well-deserved.” He notes that a piece about Trump’s attacks on “thought, belief, and speech” was killed because it was too opinionated.

“As a columnist, I can’t live with that level of constraint. A column without commentary made me a columnist without a column,” Davidson wrote. He does, however, note that other staffers were permitted to use “opinionated language,” including the words “‘viciousness,’ ‘cruelty’ and ‘meanness’ to describe Trump’s actions.”

Bezos and The Washington Post have not responded to Davidson’s post.

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