JD Vance texted Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, demanding that he hire a right-wing journalist to run the Washington Post’s political team.

The vice president said on Thursday that he urged Bezos to offer the Post’s top political job to Breitbart’s White House Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle.

Bezos, who bought the Post for $250 million in 2013, didn’t take up Vance on his suggestion, but has continued to move the venerable publication’s political outlook further to the right.

Vance was reportedly not invited to the funeral of Dick Cheney on Thursday morning, which was attended by George Bush, Joe Biden, and every living former vice president—Al Gore, Dan Quayle, Mike Pence, Kamala Harris, and Biden.

Instead, he appeared at an event run by the right-leaning Breitbart, which was broadcast live on

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