Bezos, who has recently joined the MAGA bandwagon after years of butting heads with Trump, reportedly had a phone call with him way back in July last year. During the chat, he apparently bigged up former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum.
Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos last summer privately urged Donald Trump to pick Doug Burgum as Trump's vice president, saying he'd be an "excellent" choice.Why it matters: Bezos' phone conversation with Trump in July — detailed in my forthcoming book,
While some right-wing personalities praised Jeff Bezos’s decision to have The Washington Post‘s opinion section focus on conservative topics like personal liberties and free markets, Megyn Kelly offered a different perspective.
The seeds of the Trump-Bezos relationship were sewn over a pivotal summer phone call in July 2024, when the billionaire gave a nod to North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, who has since been picked as Trump’s Secretary of the Interior, according to the book by Axios senior political reporter Alex Isenstadt.