President Trump said in an interview with The Spectator that he had dinner Wednesday night with Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. Why it matters: The dinner between Trump and Bezos happened the night Bezos announced changes to the Washington Post opinion section. It's another sign of Trump and Bezos growing closeness.

ISTANBUL (AA) - Both current and former staff members of The Washington Post are pushing back against owner Jeff Bezos after he announced a major shift in the paper’s editorial stance. In the new direction under Amazon.com owner Bezos, the Opinion section will primarily focus on “personal liberties” and “free markets.”

The newspaper's billionaire owner announced the opinion section will now focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”

The paper’s billionaire owner has been accused of cosying up to Donald Trump after announcing a change in direction that sparked the resignation of the Post’s opinion editor.

The move, a major break from the norm at the 'Post' and at most credible news media organizations worldwide, comes as US media face increasing threats to their freedom and accusations of bias from President Donald Trump.

Bezos announced Wednesday that the Post's opinion section would focus on "personal liberties and free markets." Trump says they had dinner that night.

"I had dinner with Jeff Bezos last night," Trump told The Spectator World magazine Thursday as an aside while discussing how tech titans had warmed to him as he returned to office.