The Donald Trump campaign said late Wednesday that it does not believe talk radio host Hugh Hewitt should be banned from the GOP convention in Cleveland, even though a top Trump staffer suggested that might happen
Hewitt, whose column is carried by the Examiner, suggested this week that the GOP change its convention rules so as to prevent Trump from taking the party’s nomination.
“They ought to get together and let the convention decide. And if Donald Trump pulls over a makeover in the next four to five weeks, great, they can keep him. It would be better if he had done so five weeks ago,” he said during his radio program. “But it’s awful and it ended bad last night.”
He likened the GOP ignoring Trump’s gaffes and missteps to a man ignoring Stage IV cancer.
“You can’t do it, you gotta go attack it,” Hewitt said. “And right now the Republican Party is facing — the plane is headed towards the mountain after the last 72 hours.”
In response, Trump’s director of social media and senior adviser, Dan Scavino, suggested that Hewitt be banned from the party’s convention later this summer.
“Assume hater Hugh Hewitt will not be attending the @GOP Convention,” he said on social media. “If he is — the RNC should BAN him from attending.”
However, rather than back Scavino’s play, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said simply that it is not their position that the RNC block Hewitt from attending the convention this summer. When asked if it was their position, she replied with a simple, “No.”
Hewitt did not respond to the Examiner‘s request for comment.
