1. Hugh Hewitt was born on February 22,1956 and is an American conservative political commentator, radio talk show host with the Salem Radio Network, attorney, academic, and author.
34 Facts About Hugh Hewitt
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Hugh Hewitt writes about law, society, politics, and media bias in the United States.
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Hugh Hewitt is the 14th most-listened-to radio talk show host in the United States.
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Hugh Hewitt was born on February 22,1956, in Warren, Ohio.
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Hugh Hewitt is the son of Marguerite and William Robert Hewitt.
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Hugh Hewitt describes himself as "a descendant of both Ulster and the Republic through a green-orange marriage of immigrants from County Down and County Clare".
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Hugh Hewitt worked in many posts in the Ronald Reagan administration, including deputy director and General Counsel of the Office of Personnel Management, General Counsel for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Assistant White House Counsel, and Special Assistant to the Attorney General.
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In 1989, Hugh Hewitt became the executive director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
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Hugh Hewitt hosted a weekend radio talk show for the Los Angeles radio station KFI, where he broadcast until 1995.
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Hugh Hewitt has worked as a weekly columnist for the Daily Standard and World.
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Hugh Hewitt has appeared on programs such as The Dennis Miller Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Larry King Live, The O'Reilly Factor, The Today Show and The Colbert Report.
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Hugh Hewitt became a professor of law at Chapman University School of Law.
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Hugh Hewitt founded the journal Nexus Journal of Law and Policy.
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In 2019, Hugh Hewitt returned to the Nixon Library as president and CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, the nonprofit that co-operates the Nixon Library with the National Archives and Records Administration.
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On his first day in the job, Hugh Hewitt announced that he would split his time between Orange County and Washington, DC, and open a Nixon Foundation office in Washington.
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In November 2021, Hugh Hewitt was replaced as president and CEO by Jim Byron.
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In March 2020, after Joe Biden won the South Carolina presidential primary, Hugh Hewitt predicted that Biden's victory would be of little benefit to his campaign and that Bernie Sanders would perform strongly on Super Tuesday; after Biden took the lead on Super Tuesday and eventually won the Democratic nomination, Politico named Hugh Hewitt's predictions among "the most audacious, confident and spectacularly incorrect prognostications about the year".
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Hewitt's nationally syndicated radio show, The Hugh Hewitt Show, is broadcast from California from 6 to 9 am EST on weekdays.
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Hugh Hewitt used to spend the 15th hour of the week discussing movies with "Emmett of the Unblinking Eye".
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On June 24,2017, Hugh Hewitt debuted, a half-hour television show which ran on MSNBC in the Saturdays 8 am EST timeslot.
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On Saturday, June 30,2018, Hugh Hewitt announced that the show had been cancelled, but that he would continue his commentary on the NBC family of networks.
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In 2020, NBC and MSNBC stopped inviting Hugh Hewitt to appear on their programs, which constituted a breach of contract.
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In November 2024, Hugh Hewitt quit his position with The Washington Post following an appearance on the paper's live show.
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Hugh Hewitt has described George Will and Charles Krauthammer as models for his style of punditry.
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Hugh Hewitt moderated several of the 2016 Republican Party presidential debates and forums, where he clashed with Donald Trump.
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Hugh Hewitt said that Trump did not possess "the temperament to be president".
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In February 2016, Hugh Hewitt wrote that, despite being repeatedly publicly insulted by Trump, he would support him should he become the Republican nominee for president.
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In June 2016, after Trump's controversial remarks concerning Judge Gonzalo Curiel, Hugh Hewitt publicly called on the RNC to disendorse Trump as nominee.
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Hugh Hewitt denied being pressured to change his position on Trump.
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Hugh Hewitt described John Bolton, a zionist hawk, as "peace-through-strength, 600-ship [navy], Reagan conservative".
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Hugh Hewitt described the July 25 phone call in which Trump requested that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy investigate Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, as a "nothingburger".
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In October 2019, Hugh Hewitt defended Trump's decision to remove a small contingent of US military forces from Northern Syria where they served as a buffer between Turkey and Syrian Kurds, leaving Kurds vulnerable to attack by Turkish forces.
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Hugh Hewitt has several times accused the Democratic Party of being anti-religion.
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Hugh Hewitt is married to Betsy Hewitt, whom he married in 1982.