Longtime Washington Post columnist Hugh Hewitt quits newspaper

Longtime Washington Post columnist Hugh Hewitt discontinue the paper connected Friday, helium told Fox News Digital.

Hewitt, a blimpish who hosts a nationally syndicated vigor show, had been a contributing columnist for the paper since 2017 and has written hundreds of pieces.

"I person successful information discontinue the Post but I was lone penning a file for them each six weeks oregon so," Hewitt told Fox News Digital, adding he'd precocious offered to constitute different pro-Trump file for the insubstantial up of the election. He informed editorial leafage exertion David Shipley connected Friday morning.

His past portion was published connected Tuesday, wherever helium called connected the MAGA movement to germinate if Trump was elected president again. He was a uncommon pro-Trump dependable astatine the wide outlet, whose sentiment roster and editorial committee thin sharply to the left, but his pieces touched connected a wide assortment of topics.

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Conservative vigor big Hugh Hewitt has discontinue his gig arsenic a Washington Post contributing columnist. (Washington Post)

A clip of Hewitt went viral earlier connected Friday erstwhile helium walked disconnected the Washington Post's online amusement the "First Look" with wide columnists Jonathan Capehart and Ruth Marcus connected its "Washington Post Live" platform. It came during a treatment of Trump rhetoric astir predetermination integrity.

"Does it look similar Donald Trump is laying the groundwork for contesting the predetermination by complaining that cheating was taking spot successful Pennsylvania?" Capehart asked Marcus. "By suing Bucks County for alleged irregularities, and this is connected apical of his continual assertion that if helium loses, it's due to the fact that of cheating."

Marcus said Trump had been preparing to blasted an predetermination nonaccomplishment connected cheating for months.

"No predetermination tin beryllium just successful Donald Trump's caput unless Donald Trump wins it," Marcus said.

As Marcus went on, Hewitt tried to interject, but Capehart snapped, "Let Ruth finish, Hugh."

"Well, I’ve conscionable got to say, we’re quality people, adjacent though it’s the sentiment section," Hewitt said. "It’s got to beryllium reported. Bucks County was reversed by the tribunal and instructed to unfastened up other days due to the fact that they violated the instrumentality and told radical to spell home. So that suit was brought by the Republican National Committee, and it was successful. The Supreme Court ruled that Glenn Youngkin was successful.

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"We are quality people, adjacent though we person opinions, and we person to study the full communicative if we bring up portion of the story," Hewitt added. "So, yes, he’s upset astir Bucks County, but helium was close and helium won successful court. That’s the story."

After a little pause, Capehart said, "I don't admit being lectured astir reporting erstwhile Hugh, galore times, you've travel present saying tons of things that aren't based successful fact."

Hewitt stood up and said, "I won't travel back, Jonathan. I'm done. I'm done. This is the astir unfair predetermination advertisement I've ever been a portion of. You guys are working. That's fine. I'm done."

With that, helium left, leaving a blank country of the surface portion Capehart went backmost to Marcus to speech astir her file saying the stakes of the predetermination were ideology and "decency."

But past Marcus' surface froze, and further method difficulties derailed the amusement from there. 

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Washington Post for comment.

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Hewitt's leaving the Post comes connected the heels of the decision, astatine the behest of proprietor Jeff Bezos, not to endorse a campaigner for president this year. The Post's abdication acceptable disconnected an uproar among staffers and readers, starring to resignations and hundreds of thousands of canceled subscriptions. 

Bezos besides has reportedly called for having much blimpish sentiment writers, truthful Hewitt's departure is simply a stroke to that goal.

Conservative vigor big Hugh Hewitt. (Getty Images)

The Post was acceptable to endorse Kamala Harris – it hasn't backed a Republican for president since it began regularly offering White House endorsements successful 1976 – earlier Bezos pulled the plug, citing efforts to rebuild spot with readers skeptical of the media.

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Not a regular columnist for the newspaper, Hewitt had written lone 7 pieces for the Post successful 2024 aft penning 48 pieces for it unsocial successful 2023.