Longtime Washington Post columnist Hugh Hewitt left the newspaper on Friday, he told Fox News Digital.

Hewitt, a conservative who hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, has been a columnist for the newspaper since 2017 and has written hundreds of articles.

“I actually left the Post, but I was only writing a column for them about every six weeks,” Hewitt told Fox News Digital, adding that he recently offered to write another pro-Trump column for the Post before the election to write a newspaper. He informed editorial page editor David Shipley on Friday morning.

His latest article was published on Tuesday, in which he called on the MAGA movement to evolve if Trump were re-elected president. He was a rare pro-Trump voice at the liberal newspaper, whose opinion list and editorial board leans heavily to the left, but his pieces touched on a wide range of topics.

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Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt has quit his job as a Washington Post columnist. (Washington Post)

A clip of Hewitt went viral on Friday as he left the Washington Post's online “First Look” program on its “Washington Post Live” platform along with liberal columnists Jonathan Capehart and Ruth Marcus. It came during a discussion about Trump's election integrity rhetoric.

“Does it look like Donald Trump is laying the groundwork for challenging the election by complaining that there was fraud in Pennsylvania?” Capehart asked Marcus. “By suing Bucks County for alleged irregularities, in addition to his constant assertion that when he loses, it is due to fraud.”

Marcus said Trump had been preparing for months to attribute an election defeat to fraud.

“No election can be fair for Donald Trump unless Donald Trump wins it,” Marcus said.

As Marcus continued, Hewitt tried to intervene, but Capehart snapped, “Let Ruth finish, Hugh.”

“Well, I just have to say, we're news people, even if it's in the opinion section,” Hewitt said. “It needs to be reported. Bucks County was overturned by the court and ordered to grant extra days for breaking the law and telling people to go home. So this lawsuit was filed by the Republican National Committee and was successful. The Supreme Court ruled that Glenn Youngkin was successful.

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“We are news people, even though we have opinions, and we must report the whole story when we address one part of the story,” Hewitt added. “So yes, he’s upset with Bucks County, but he was right and he won in court. That’s the story.”

After a brief pause, Capehart said, “I don't appreciate being lectured about reporting when Hugh, you've come here many times and said a lot of things that aren't based on facts.”

Hewitt stood up and said, “I won’t come back, Jonathan. I'm done. I'm done. This is the most unfair election campaign I have ever taken part in. You work. That's okay. “I'm done.”

With that, he walked away, leaving a blank corner of the screen as Capehart returned to Marcus to talk about her column in which he said the election was about democracy and “decency.”

But then Marcus' screen froze and further technical difficulties derailed the show.

Fox News Digital has reached out to The Washington Post for comment.

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Hewitt's departure from the post follows owner Jeff Bezos' decision not to support a candidate for president this year. The Post's abandonment sparked uproar among employees and readers, leading to resignations and hundreds of thousands of canceled subscriptions.

Bezos has also reportedly called for more conservative opinion writers to be installed, so Hewitt's departure deals a blow to that goal.

Conservative radio presenter Hugh Hewitt. (Getty Images)

The Post was set to endorse Kamala Harris — it has not endorsed a Republican for president since it began offering regular endorsements to the White House in 1976 — before Bezos pulled the plug, citing efforts to restore the trust of readers who were skeptical of the media .

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Hewitt was not a regular columnist for the newspaper and had only written seven articles for the Post in 2024, after writing 48 articles for the Post alone in 2023.