A.J. Delgado

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. She has also been critical of Sarah Palin concerning her political action committee's spending priorities.

A superficial 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. A few days afterwards, she wrote an article expressing her support for 9/11 truther Navy SEAL Jesse Ventura in his lawsuit against the widow of murdered Navy SEAL Chris Kyle.

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 terrorist attack in Benghazi, denounced people for wanting to know the full details of the attack, and posted multiple tweets attacking President George W. Bush and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

These accusations are not substantiated elsewhere on the internet, the events apparently going unnoticed, but Delgado deleted her Twitter account in December 2016.

Earlier in 2014, Delgado had published an article in The Guardian website 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 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 and defend Davis's use of disabled Americans for propaganda purposes.

Delgado has also expressed anti-military views, criticizing U.S. Army Ranger First Sergeant Albert Marle for being on a US Airways flight in his uniform.

Yet the website Twitchy, a website that records notable events on Twitter, documents Delgado joining in an attack on Wendy Davis on October 22, 2014.

External links

• A.J. Delgado's blog