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}}</ref> In 2020, NBC and MSNBC stopped inviting Hewitt to appear on their programs, which constituted a breach of contract. Thus, in 2021, Hewitt was released from that contract and started appearing on Fox News Channel. In November 2024, Hewitt quit his position with ''The Washington Post'' following an appearance on the paper's live show.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/01/media/hugh-hewitt-quits-washington-post-live-show/index.html | title=Hugh Hewitt quits the Washington Post after storming off newspaper's live show | CNN Business | website=[[CNN]] | date=November 2024 }}</ref>
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Amid the [[Trump-Ukraine scandal]], which led to the [[first impeachment of Donald Trump]], Hewitt floated a [[conspiracy theory]] that the [[Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump#Withholding of military aid and July 25 phone call|whistleblower complaint]] that set off the scandal was by a [[whistleblower]] who was trying to divert attention from his own involvement in a "Clintons-Obama-Biden collusion debacle".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/gop-divided-by-whistleblower-complaint-on-trump-and-ukraine.html|title=GOP Divided Over How Enthusiastically to Cover for Trump's Corruption on Ukraine|last=Levitz|first=Eric|date=2019-09-26|website=Intelligencer|language=en-us|access-date=2019-10-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/trump-and-his-right-wing-allies-are-losing-their-minds-over-the-whistleblower-complaint/|title=Trump and his right-wing allies are losing their minds over the whistleblower complaint|last=Spinelli|first=Dan|website=Mother Jones|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-13}}</ref> He penned an op-ed about the impeachment inquiry titled, "Impeachment-minded Democrats, welcome to Al Capone's vault. Look familiar?"<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/trump-impeachment-inquiry/hugh-hewitt-descends-further-pro-trump-fever-swamps-mainstream-media|title=Hugh Hewitt descends further into pro-Trump fever swamps as mainstream media continue to legitimize him|last=Kleefeld|first=Eric|website=Media Matters for America|date=October 4, 2019 |language=en|access-date=2019-10-13}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite news|last=Hewitt|first=Hugh|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/26/impeachment-minded-democrats-welcome-al-capones-vault-look-familiar/|title=Impeachment-minded Democrats, welcome to Al Capone's vault. Look familiar?|date=September 26, 2019|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> He said that the [[FBI]] had tried a "coup" against Trump and that Democrats were trying "another coup".<ref name=":7" /> He described the [[Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump#Withholding of military aid and July 25 phone call|July 25 phone call]] in which Trump requested that Ukrainian President [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]] investigate Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, as a "[[nothingburger]]".<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":8" />
In October 2019, Hewitt defended Trump's decision to remove a small contingent of
On his podcast on October 24, 2024, Hewitt, in a phone call with Trump, stated that he had voted for Trump for president in 2024.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6iCUmf2gPo |title=Former (and Future) President Trump on Chairman Xi, VP Harris, and the Closing Days of Campaign 2024 |date=2024-10-24 |last=Hugh Hewitt |access-date=2024-11-01 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
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