Matt Drudge feared Clintons planting cocaine on him, would leave country around elections: ex-employee
NY Post
WASHINGTON — Online news pioneer Matt Drudge, the publisher of the powerful Drudge Report news aggregation website, feared the Clinton family would plant cocaine on him as payback and would even leave the country around election time as a precaution, according to a former employee.
Joe Curl, who worked as an editor of the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2014, revealed his former boss’s paranoia in a podcast interview with journalist Chris Moody, host of the “Finding Matt Drudge” series.
“He always leaves the country during election day or the election season — the weeks before the election — because he was afraid,” Curl recalled.
“He said he was worried about the Clintons planting, you know, a bag of cocaine in his car, which he had parked in the parking lot there. So he would always take off and get out of the country around the election.”
Drudge, 57, rocketed from obscurity into a media powerhouse by first reporting in 1998 that President Bill Clinton was having an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky — a story that Newsweek was holding and that ultimately resulted in Clinton’s impeachment.
Drudge later circulated largely unflattering stories about Hillary Clinton during her 2008 and 2016 campaigns for president — including helping launch into political discourse topics such as concerns about the former first lady’s health.
