Huffington Post will no longer use the pre-election editor’s note describing Donald Trump, America’s president-elect, as a “serial liar, a racist, a misogynist and xenophobe”.
In the run up to the election, Huffington Post had used the note on stories or articles about Trump.
The note read: “Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the US”.
But according to Politico, Huffington Post sent a memo to its staff asking them to stop using the note.
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On Tuesday evening, Ryan Grim, Huffpost’s Washington bureau chief, said the organisation decided to remove the note as a mark of respect for the post of presidency.
“The thinking is that (assuming he wins) that he’s now president and we’re going to start with a clean slate…If he governs in a racist, misogynistic way, we reserve the right to add it back on,” he said.
“This would be giving respect to the office of the presidency which Trump and his backers never did.”
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POLITICO says sources in Huffington Post said removing the note was the original plan.
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