Washington Post Issues All-Time Disclosure on George Will Op-Ed: ‘The Columnist’s Wife… Disagrees With This’

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George Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist who has written for the Washington Post for nearly 50 years, published an op-ed on Tuesday urging Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) to drop out of the presidential race. But even before the article starts, as is good practice, the Post editors offered a disclaimer – that the columnist’s wife disagrees with the column.

Mari Will is an adviser to Scott, so it makes sense that she would disagree with a call for him to drop out. It also makes sense that the Post would divulge this relationship in the name of transparency. But it’s also funny to imagine the dinner table conversations at La Maison Will this past year:

Disclosure: The columnist’s wife, Mari Will, an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.), disagrees with this column.

George Will wants Scott to drop out and put his support behind former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who has been picking up some speed in the GOP primary, but not quite enough to topple the frontrunner, former President Donald Trump. Will is no fan of Trump, calling him “so deeply shallow that many might still underestimate his potential destructiveness,” and whose reelection “would mean the unraveling of collective security, from Europe to the Far East: Serious nations will not tether themselves to a United States that tethers itself to someone who is in equal measures frivolous, petulant and malevolent.”

Given that Mari Will is seemingly very eager to keep her guy chugging along against Trump despite an insurmountable deficit in the polls, this is probably something on which they can both find some common ground! So that’s comforting.