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Hugh Hewitt is the host of a nationally syndicated radio show and a columnist.

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Hugh Hewitt
stated on September 28, 2020 in a radio show:

President Donald Trump’s tax returns show “what any wealthy person's tax history is, if you can believe it — which is good years and bad years, years of immense taxes and years of almost no taxes at all because you carry over losses.”

By Bill McCarthy • September 30, 2020
Hugh Hewitt
stated on July 15, 2018 in in a panel discussion:

Says FBI agent Peter Strzok’s hearing confirmed Republican Congressman Jim Jordan’s theory about how the Justice Department got the Steele dossier.

By John Kruzel • July 24, 2018
Hugh Hewitt
stated on March 26, 2017 in comments on "Meet the Press":

Obamacare "is in a death spiral."

By Allison Graves • March 26, 2017
Hugh Hewitt
stated on July 20, 2016 in an MSNBC panel:

"A million Democrats deserted (Howard Dean’s) party and joined my party because of Donald Trump in Ohio this year."

By Nadia Pflaum • July 21, 2016
Hugh Hewitt
stated on September 13, 2015 in a panel discussion on CNN's "State of the Union":

Says history suggests sports will "quickly subsume a lot of the attention span of the country" in the presidential primary.

By Jon Greenberg • September 16, 2015

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