On Friday, conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt suddenly announced his resignation from The Washington Post.
Hewitt, a conservative who hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, had been a contributing columnist for the newspaper since 2017.
“I have in fact quit the Post but I was only writing a column for them every six weeks or so,” Hewitt told Fox News Digital, adding he’d recently offered to write another pro-Trump column for the paper ahead of the election. He informed editorial page editor David Shipley on Friday morning.
His last piece was published on Tuesday, where he called on the MAGA movement to evolve if Trump was elected president again.
A clip of Hewitt went viral earlier on Friday when he walked off The Washington Post’s online show the First Look with liberal columnists Jonathan Capehart and Ruth Marcus on its “Washington Post Live” platform. It came during a discussion of Trump rhetoric around election integrity.
WATCH:
🚨 GANGSTER!
Hugh Hewitt rips his earpiece out and walks off set LIVE on-air while calling the Washington Post an ‘election ad’ for Kamala. Hugh was enraged that the segment did not fairly report on Trump’s election integrity victories
Then the entire broadcast IMPLODES
WATCH pic.twitter.com/DNnM0vVwmh
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 1, 2024
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