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'''A.J. Delgado''' is a political analyst and journalist who served as a senior adviser to the 2016 Donald Trump U.S. presidential campaign.

Before joining the Trump campaign, Delgado was employed as a conservative opinion columnist for the website Mediaite and contributed to other conservative publications, although she is not a strict conservative.  For example, Delgado supports same-sex marriage.<ref>Multiple references:
*Delgado, A. J. (January 2, 2014). [https://www.breitbart.com/blog/2014/01/02/the-ridiculousness-of-nfl-player-turned-gay-marriage-activist-turned-martyr-chris-kluwe-top-10-excerpts-from-his-article/ "The ridiculousness of NFL player-turned-gay-marriage-activist-turned-martyr Chris Kluwe: Top 10 excerpts from his article"]. Breitbart website.
*Delgado, A. J. (October 6, 2014). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/519269914470023168 "Folks the gay marriage debate is over. Let it go. If two ppl want to be happy, more power to them! This does not affect you. At all."] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.</ref>  She has also been critical of [[Sarah Palin]] concerning her political action committee's spending priorities.<ref>Flesher, Steve (March 31, 2013). [http://conservatives4palin.com/2013/03/more-desperation-and-fear.html "More desperation and fear, update: PDS infected trolling C4P (and Mediaite); Update II: A.J. Delgado trolling w/ Trig truthers"]. Conservatives4Palin website.</ref>

A superficial and selective examination of Delgado's journalistic pursuits may seem to show an inclination to oppose institutions and people generally thought of as conservatives rather than not.  In July 2014, Delgado wrote an article in which she demanded that conservatives stop defending police forces.<ref>Delgado, A. J. (July 21, 2014). [https://www.nationalreview.com/article/383312/its-time-conservatives-stop-defending-police-j-delgado "It’s time for conservatives to stop defending police"]. ''National Review'' website.</ref> A few days afterwards, she wrote an article expressing her support for 9/11 truther [[United States Navy SEALs|Navy SEAL]] [[Jesse Ventura]] in his lawsuit against the widow of murdered [[United States Navy SEALs|Navy SEAL]] Chris Kyle.<ref>Delgado, A. J. (July 30, 2014). [https://www.nationalreview.com/article/384176/justice-jesse-ventura-was-right-his-lawsuit-j-delgado "Justice for Jesse: Ventura was right in his lawsuit"]. National Review website.</ref>

But criticism, even emphatic criticism, of individuals and institutions notable for their conservative reputations is not necessarily a sign of a broadly-applied mistrust.  Nor is a recognition that the growth of a particular conservatively-oriented institution is offering diminishing returns from its patronage.  For example, establishing a police-state is not generally recognized as a conservative goal.

In October 2014 a wiki-editor drew up a series of accusations which served to caricature Delgado, despite the editor displaying a capacity to write clear descriptions.  He wrote:

:On October 8, 2014, Delgado went on a bizarre tirade on [[Twitter]] in which she attacked the [[Fox News Channel]] for interviewing the mother of a victim of the [[Terrorism|terrorist attack]] in [[Benghazi]],<ref>https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/519997001392726016</ref> denounced people for wanting to know the full details of the attack,<ref name="full">Multiple references:
*Delgado, A. J. (October 8, 2014, 4:46pm). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/519997171786317824 "There have only been about 2 million hearings and investigations on Benghazi. Yet...."] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.  Reply to [https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/519996254819209216 "MT @gretawire: Mother of #Benghazi victim: Even to this day, I am not really sure of what happened. #OTR #FoxNews"]. (October 8, 2014, 4:42pm). Tweet by @FoxNews.
*Delgado, A. J. (October 8, 2014, 5:15pm). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/520004618450108416 "Pathetic part is: you know, I know it, we all know it: Had "Benghazi" happened under GWB, none of these folks would care. At all."] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.</ref> and posted multiple tweets attacking President [[George W. Bush]]<ref>Delgado, A. J. (October 8, 2014, 5:16p). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/520004774360805377 "Deaths under Bush? "Tragedy." "Sad but s--- happens."//Deaths under Obama? "Someone must pay!!!""] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.</ref> and [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]]<ref>Multiple references:
*Delgado, A. J. (October 8, 2014, 5:23pm). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/520006565961953280 "Weird. Folks all bent out of shape re Benghazi don't care re the 4,000+ American heroes who died over non-existent WMD's. #GWB vs. #Obama"] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.
*Delgado, A. J. (October 8, 2014, 5:27pm). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/520007508279435264 "Yes, yes, loss of life for our servicemen / ambassadors / service personnel only matters when it's Obama in office, not GWB. Got it. Nice!" ] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.</ref>

These accusations are not substantiated elsewhere on the internet, the events apparently going unnoticed, and Delgado deleted at least the first of her first Twitter posts.

Earlier in 2014, Delgado had published an article in ''The Guardian'' website<ref>Delgado, A. J. (February 2, 2014). [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/02/chris-christie-bridgegate-versus-hillary-clinton-benghazi "Republicans can't blame Clinton for Benghazi while absolving Christie of Bridgegate."] ''The Guardian'' website/Opinion.</ref> with the title "Republicans can't blame Clinton for Benghazi while absolving [potential U.S. Presidential candidate Chris] Christie of Bridgegate".  The very title suggests she was attempting to clarify a conservative principle regarding fairness.  The value in discerning, using and cultivating such a principle may very well escape the notice of those who only practice only favoritism in their political judgments, but regardless, in the case of the Fox presentation, Delgado may have been demanding that conservatives not blame Hillary for Benghazi since they seemed willing to excuse Chris Christie in a very similar case.

The second and third of Delgado's tweets<ref name="full"/> and even the wiki-editor's description of the first bear an alternate explanation than opposition to the purported scope of the Benghazi hearings, but rather a desire that the hearings be conducted sincerely and not in an overly-prolonged fashion.

Pursuant to this end, judgments which motivated her to write can be at least provisionally reconstructed which plausibly fit the language she used.  Firstly she felt that the Democratically-controlled executive branch provided a backdrop for Republicans to engage in a conflict with those likely seen as political opponents to the supporters among their constituents that a Republican-controlled executive branch would not have offered; and secondly that she felt the supposed information-gathering purpose of the conflict poorly served the survivors of the embassy murders, those persons who deserved answers the most.

The wiki-editor went on to write:

:Not surprising for someone with her [[liberal]] views, she is an enthusiastic defender and supporter of late-term abortion [[advocate]] Wendy Davis; even going so far as to praise Davis's campaign ad attacking [[Greg Abbott]]'s disability<ref>Multiple references:
*Delgado, A. J. (October 10, 2014, 6:27pm). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/520747387695136769 "Sorry, folks: You lost the chance to clutch your pearls about "attacks" when you routinely called @WendyDavisTexas "abortion Barbie.""] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.
*Delgado, A. J. (October 10, 2014, 6:27pm). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/520747531400404992 "See, the nastiness goes both ways. See many of you who LOVED the "abortion Barbie" meme now clutching your pearls over a pic of wheelchair."] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.
*Delgado, A. J. (October 10, 2014, 6:33pm). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/520748953940537344 "Conservatives called Wendy Davis "abortion Barbie" and recently insinuated she lied about her own abortion. What's nastier?"] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.</ref> and defend Davis's use of disabled Americans for propaganda purposes.<ref>Multiple references
*Delgado, A. J. (October 13, 2014, 2:07pm). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/521769340920930304 "Irony.The faux-outraged claimed to be horrified by @WendyDavisTexas's "attack on disabled" yet now smirk re a disabled man "dragged" on stage"] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.
*Delgado, A. J. (October 13, 2014, 2:11pm). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/521770126346293248 "Disabled man on Davis's stage was happy to be there. Now, some of you have gone and humiliated him by smirking over his being "dragged" #SMH"] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.</ref>

:Delgado has also expressed anti-military views, criticizing [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[75th Ranger Regiment|Ranger]] First Sergeant Albert Marle for being on a US Airways flight in his uniform.<ref>Multiple references:
*Delgado, A. J. (October 13, 2014, 11:24am). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/521728203011158016 "No one else find it weird that the "US Air military-jacket guy" was flying around in his dress uniform? Deliberately?"] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.  Comment on and link to Desiderio, Andrew (October 12, 2014, 5:56pm). [https://www.mediaite.com/online/us-airways-flight-attendant-refuses-to-hang-army-rangers-coat/ "US Airways flight attendant refuses to hang army ranger’s coat"].  Mediaite website.
*Delgado, A. J. (October 13, 2014, 11:25am). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/521728365406224384 "Why was Sergeant Marle "flying around the country wearing his uniform to interviews?" That's showboating/weird, no?"] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.</ref>

Yet the website Twitchy, a website that records notable events on Twitter, documents Delgado joining in a crowd-sourced ridicule of a vain Wendy Davis campaign tweet on October 22, 2014.  The tweet displayed a photo of a group of young Republicans described as "friends" of Davis—that the campaign seemingly took at random from an image search engine for display instead of using a photo of actual Davis supporters—to deliver a bandwagon appeal to voters.<ref>J., Jim (October 22, 2014).  [http://twitchy.com/jimj-3633/2014/10/22/hilarious-mockery-my-friends-and-i-just-voted-for-wendy-davis-pics/ "Hilarious mockery: 'My friends and I just voted for Wendy Davis!' [pics&#93;"]
Twitchy website</ref>

And if one of the documented sources is any indication of the accusations made, Delgado can hardly be called anti-military.  Delgado's former website, Mediaite, which she cited, described the event where Army Ranger Marle may or may not have been allowed by flight staff to use the closet to hang his uniform because he was not seated in first class,<ref name=uniform>Delgado, A. J. (October 13, 2014, 11:24am). [https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/521728203011158016 "No one else find it weird that the "US Air military-jacket guy" was flying around in his dress uniform? Deliberately?"] Tweet by @AJDelgado13.  Comment on and link to Desiderio, Andrew (October 12, 2014, 5:56pm). [https://www.mediaite.com/online/us-airways-flight-attendant-refuses-to-hang-army-rangers-coat/ "US Airways flight attendant refuses to hang army ranger’s coat"].  Mediaite website.</ref> but Delgado merely imparted puzzlement as to why the sergeant was wearing his dress uniform while noting the name of the airline, a name which itself happened to suggest domestic flight service.<ref name=uniform/>

The news website also noted that the incident had "sparked outrage on social media", so perhaps Delgado sought to remind users of social media that there are two sides to a story before intemperate voices prevailed.  Two long-time (before February 2010) Twitter-users self-identifying as having served in the military pleasantly engaged with Delgado about her post, and she noted: "@ShawnLivingLife Check Mediaite and watch Judge Jeanine's total breakdown over it. Crazy!"  

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://aj-delgado.com/ A.J. Delgado's blog]

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