Update: Politico reports that National security correspondent Jordan Schachtel and associate editor Jarrett Stepman have resigned.

Man, sleep in one day; and boy did I ever! — did not crawl out of bed till 12:30 in the afternoon —- and major news breaks. Hopefully, I write this right; I’m still nursing the coffee mug and the vape. So, bear with me here. 😛

I knew this was coming, but I did not expect it this soon. I figured that Ben and Michelle would hold out until after the election. I guess the staff over there, are really ticked about the way the owners handled the situation.

BuzzFeed has the scoop:

Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and editor-at-large Ben Shapiro are resigning from the company over the site’s handling of Donald Trump’s campaign manager’s alleged assault on Fields, BuzzFeed News has learned.

Fields and Shapiro informed Breitbart News chair Steve Bannon of their decision Sunday night.

“Today I informed the management at Breitbart News of my immediate resignation,” Fields said in a statement sent to BuzzFeed News. “I do not believe Breitbart News has adequately stood by me during the events of the past week and because of that I believe it is now best for us to part ways.”

In his own statement, Shapiro said the episode was emblematic of how he believes the site’s management had sold out the legacy of its founder and namesake, the late Andrew Breitbart.

“Andrew’s life mission has been betrayed,” Shapiro wrote. “Indeed, Breitbart News, under the chairmanship of Steve Bannon, has put a stake through the heart of Andrew’s legacy. In my opinion, Steve Bannon is a bully, and has sold out Andrew’s mission in order to back another bully, Donald Trump; he has shaped the company into Trump’s personal Pravda, to the extent that he abandoned and undercut his own reporter, Breitbart News’ Michelle Fields, in order to protect Trump’s bully campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who allegedly assaulted Michelle.”

Breitbart has been riven by internal strife in recent days after Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, allegedly grabbed Fields and yanked her away from Trump as she was attempting to ask him a question after a press conference in Florida. The Trump campaign denied the incident, despite considerable evidence to the contrary.

Breitbart published a story casting doubt on Fields’ account, appearing to side with the Trump campaign over their own reporter. Joel Pollak, a senior editor-at-large at the organization, ordered staffers to stop defending Fields. One source with knowledge of the situation said some staffers who publicly defended Fields had been threatened with firing.

“Both Lewandowski and Trump maligned Michelle in the most repulsive fashion,” Shapiro wrote in his resignation statement. “Meanwhile, Breitbart News not only stood by and did nothing outside of tepidly asking for an apology, they then attempted to abandon Michelle by silencing staff from tweeting or talking about the issue. Finally, in the ultimate indignity, they undermined Michelle completely by running a poorly-evidenced conspiracy theory as their lead story in which Michelle and Terris had somehow misidentified Lewandowski.”

The exodus, which began with the company’s spokesman Kurt Bardella, is unlikely to end with Fields and Shapiro. Three sources say multiple staffers are searching for a way out of the company — with several actively circulating résumés, according to two sources — and more resignations could follow in the coming days and weeks. The company is known for having editorial employees sign unusually strict contracts, at least some of which include non-compete clauses that could make it difficult to leave Breitbart for another news outlet.

Relations between Bannon and the site’s staff — which were already fraught with tension over the direction and editorial vision for the company — have deteriorated sharply over the episode with the Trump campaign. According to one company source with knowledge of the situation, some editors have discussed telling Breitbart News CEO Larry Solov they will quit unless Bannon is ousted. Solov did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday night.

Sorry to over quote that story; but it is all that good. Looks like the staff isn’t very happy. Like I wrote over in the comments section of this blog here; there have been issues with the staff over at Breitbart for a long while. Many people worked there have worked there; only to leave later on. Dana Loesch actually filed a lawsuit against the company over her contract there, before she moved to Glenn Beck’s network. So, this is really no big surprise to me at all.

What is really surprising to me is that a piece mocking Shapiro was published and then removed. Which tells me really all I need to know about that company. Andrew would be really furious as to how his company is being handled by these two jokers. There is a price to be a shill and these guys are now paying it. I support Trump myself; but I am not a shill, nor will I ever be —- and this above, is why.

Related:

Benny Johnson / Independent Journal Review: Leaked Internal Messages Show ‘Ashamed’ Writers At Breitbart Revolting Against Weak Leadership

Hadas Gold / Politico:Breitbart piece mocking editor who resigned was written under father’s pseudonym

Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:Breitbart News Editor-at-Large apologizes for company’s earlier statement on Fields, Shapiro resignations, says it was published as result of misunderstanding

Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico: Rubio: My campaign would be over if my manager grabbed a reporter

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