The Huffington Post announced late Tuesday that it is killing the editor’s note in all of stories mentioning Donald Trump which states the Republican nominee is a “racist” and “misogynist,” among other allegations.
The website’s Washington D.C. bureau chief, Ryan Grim, emailed staffers Tuesday evening about the organization’s decision to remove the note. Grim cited the move as part of its plan to commence post-election Trump coverage with a “clean slate.”
“The thinking is that (assuming he wins) that he’s now president and we’re going to start with a clean slate,” Grim wrote in an email to Politico. “If he governs in a racist, misogynistic way, we reserve the right to add it back on. This would be giving respect to the office of the presidency which Trump and his backers never did.”
Through much of the election season, Huffington Post has tagged every Trump story with the editor’s note.
It reads: “Editor’s note: 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 U.S.”
