Katie McHugh
Katie McHugh
Katie McHugh is a journalist and editor. Katie McHugh was a Homepage Editor at Breitbart News until she was fired in June 2017 for tweeting that there would be no terrorism in the UK if Muslims didn't live there. [1]
Career
Katie McHugh filled in as a Homepage Editor at Breitbart News from April, 2014 until her terminating on June 5, 2017. As a component of her job she composed articles for the site and dealt with the evening news inclusion. Katie has composed for various outlets including The Drudge Report, Fox News, The Daily Caller, The College Fix, Daily Mail and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. [1]
Preceding working at Breitbart, Katie functioned as an Editor at The Daily Caller from 2013-2014.
During school, she interned at the National Review and the Daily Caller.
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Terminating from Breitbart News
On June 5, 2017 Katie McHugh was terminated from Breitbart News for making questionable tweets in the consequence of the London Attacks June 3, 2017.
[2]
Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow reported McHugh's takeoff inside Monday morning.
McHugh herself affirmed she was out, tweeting, "Breitbart News terminated me for coming clean about Islam and Muslim movement" and presenting a connection on a raising money page began to help her on the gathering pledges site Wesearchr.
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McHugh had lighted discussion on Saturday night when she composed on Twitter that "there would be no destructive fear assaults in the U.K. on the off chance that Muslims didn't live there."
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"You're a genuine idiot," entertainer Pej Vahdat answered.
"No doubt about it," shot back McHugh, inaccurately recognizing the identity of Vahdat, who is Iranian-American.
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Racism Controversy
In December 2091, McHugh called Stephen Miller a white supremacist. She even agreed to a CNN interview because Katie McHugh wanted to sound the alarm about Miller. She said on Miller's way to the White House, where he is now a senior adviser deeply involved in shaping immigration policy in consonance with his hardline views, he was constantly sending her far-right material, encouraging her to use their arguments in her articles.[10]
"He was shaping news coverage of a far-right website that was rapidly growing... and was controlling the narrative behind Donald Trump's candidacy and the tenor of the electorate, especially the Republican electorate," McHugh says.[10]
McHugh said she was introduced to Miller in June 2015 by Breitbart colleague Matthew Boyle when she became a reporter, after editing the site's homepage and stories. She was 23 at the time. McHugh also shared several hundred emails with the Southern Policy Law Center and some with CNN showing Miller's contacts from 2015 to 2016 while he was working for then Sen. Jeff Sessions and later on the Trump presidential campaign. She said Miller stopped reaching out once he got a position in the White House.[10]
In an interview to CNN, Mc Hugh said:
"We spoke so frequently and we were friendly to each other, but it was never like, there wasn't a friendship there because it wasn't like, 'Hey, how's your day going?'"[10]
And McHugh admitted she was traveling further and further down the rabbit hole of intolerance, sending out vile tweets that eventually led to her firing after they were highlighted by CNN among others.[10]
McHugh's politics have now swung to the left.
She has even donated to Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, partly because of his calls for "Medicare for All," she says.[10]