Andrew Breitbart in 2011: ‘Donald Trump Is Not a Conservative’

In light of the recent allegation that conservative website Breitbart was paid to write positive stories about Donald Trump (an allegation the site’s writers strongly deny), it’s worth remembering that founder Andrew Breitbart was anything but a Trump supporter.

“Of course he’s not a conservative. He was for Nancy Pelosi before he was against Nancy Pelosi,” Breitbart joked during a 2011 appearance on Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor.

Watch, via Fox News:

The conservative icon (who died in 2012 of heart failure) went on to presciently warn that a “celebrity candidate” could win the nomination if conservatives weren’t careful. “Celebrity is everything in this country,” he said. “And if these guys don’t learn how to play the media the way that Barack Obama played the media last election cycle and the way that Donald Trump is playing the election cycle, we’re going to probably get a celebrity candidate.”

Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld actually pointed out that Breitbart didn’t like Trump in his recent column for Breitbart. When rating the candidate’s performance in the most recent debate, Gutfeld gave Trump less than an F- and linked to the above video.

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