Patrick Soon-Shiong’s Daughter Says Harris Endorsement Axed Over Gaza, LA Times Owner Says That’s Not True

The daughter of Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong has made explicit what she only implied two days earlier, claiming on Saturday that the paper’s planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris was axed over Harris’ stance surrounding the ongoing war in Gaza. But soon after, her father essentially implied that she’s lying.

“Our family made the joint decision not to endorse a Presidential candidate. This was the first and only time I have been involved in the process,” Soon-Shiong’s daughter, Nika Soon-Shiong, who is not a formal employee member at the paper said in a statement to The New YorkTimes, “As a citizen of a country openly financing genocide, and as a family that experienced South African Apartheid, the endorsement was an opportunity to repudiate justifications for the widespread targeting of journalists and ongoing war on children.”