Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos congratulated Donald Trump this morning for winning the presidency. “I for one give him my most open mind and wish him great success in his service to the country,” Bezos wrote on Twitter.

The statement says basically nothing, neither condemning Trump’s racist, sexist, xenophobic, vitriolic language and, presumably, future policies, nor expressing much support for him, beyond an implicit hope that he won’t tank the country. It’s as much nothing as what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered last night, more or less an acknowledgement that they’re stuck together.

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