Online news pioneer Matt Drudge, the publisher of the powerful Drudge Report news aggregation website, feared the Clinton family would plant cocaine on him as payback and would even leave the country around election time as a precaution, according to a former employee.
Joseph Curl, who worked as an editor of the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2014, revealed his former boss’s paranoia in a podcast interview with journalist Chris Moody, host of the “Finding Matt Drudge” series.
“He always leaves the country during election day or the election season — the weeks before the election — because he was afraid,” Curl recalled.
“He said he was worried about the Clintons planting, you know, a bag of cocaine in his car, which he had parked in the parking lot there. So he would always take off and get out of the country around the election.”
Curl, an ex-Washington Times reporter, said, “I really think he was mostly serious” about fearing the Clintons.
“He was the one that exploded Bill Clinton, and he had just spent a few years exploding and targeting Hillary Clinton … in the run-up to the 2008 election,” Curl said. “So he was certainly persona non grata among the Clintonistas.”
The series hosted by Moody, a former reporter for Yahoo, CNN and the Daily Caller, examines Drudge’s decades-long impact on US news coverage and his disappearance from the public spotlight.
Read the full story at the New York Post.
