Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt stormed off Friday’s edition of Washington Post Live and resigned his columnist position shortly afterwards after liberal associate editor Jonathan Capehart claimed he didn’t “appreciate being lectured” after Hewitt called out fellow panelist Ruth Marcus’s fake news about Donald Trump. Hewitt gave Capehart his wish, “I won’t come back, Jonathan. I’m done. This is the most unfair election ad I have ever been a part of.”
Capehart began by asking Marcus, “Is it me or does it seem like this week Donald Trump is laying the groundwork for contesting the election by complaining that “cheating” was taking place in Pennsylvania by suing Bucks County for alleged irregularities, and this is on top of his continual assertion that if he loses, it's because of cheating?”
Marcus replied, “Uh, yeah, that's what he's been laying the groundwork for just not in the last week, but in the last umptyump months. No election can be fair unless Donald, in Donald Trump's mind, unless Donald Trump wins it, and I think we are going to see him both rev up his supporters to contest elections outside of courtrooms and go to every courtroom he can in America, where it's relevant to make whatever arguments he can, no matter how far-fetched. We saw—”
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