EXCLUSIVE: 'I'm hungry for a Pulitzer.' Playboy writer father of Katie Hill's baby hoped to win the coveted prize defending her during 'throuple' and nude photo scandal - but failed to disclose he was secretly DATING the disgraced congresswoman
- He also defended Hill when the story about her 'throuple' relationship first broke, branding reports 'disgusting, harassment' and 'revenge porn'
- Thomas then reportedly sent an email to RedState, which first published leaked photos and texts involving Hill, saying he was 'looking at doing a piece' on it
- In 2019 DailyMail.com published texts and photos showing Hill had been in a throuple with her ex-husband and 22-year-old staffer Morgan Desjardins
Disgraced ex-congresswoman Katie Hill's new baby daddy denied his secret relationship with her while reporting on her throuple scandal and publicly defending her.
Former Playboy Magazine politics columnist Alex Thomas waded into the controversy, tweeting and publishing a newsletter erroneously claiming Republican groups were behind the story and vowed to 'chase the f***ing rabbit' because he was 'hungry for a pulitzer' – but failed to disclose that he had been in a romantic relationship with Hill for months.
In October 2019, DailyMail.com published a
story about Hill's three-way relationship with her young female campaign staffer and her husband, and an alleged affair with a congressional staffer that led to an ethics committee probe and Hill's resignation.
In an interview with
Vanity Fair published Tuesday, Hill, 34, revealed she is pregnant and living with Thomas, 30, in Washington
DC.
Hill, 34, was forced to resign during her first year in office after reports revealed she had been in a three-way relationship with her staffer Morgan Desjardins (center) while married to now-ex-husband Kenny Heslep (right) in 2019
On October 24, 2019, the day of DailyMail.com's
first story on Hill's inappropriate relationships, Thomas tweeted: 'this is not journalism. It's disgusting, harassment and publishing revenge porn is a crime.'
Hill later sued DailyMail.com, other journalists and her ex-husband claiming the photos of her constituted revenge porn, but a Los Angeles judge dismissed the case after ruling the reporting on Hill's throuple affair with her young campaign staffer and her alleged campaign finance violations were of 'compelling public interest' and protected by the first amendment.
In since-deleted October 2019 tweets, Thomas reported that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) had been 'shopping around the Katie Hill images' before the scandal broke.
He tweeted in all-caps before publishing his story: 'SOME NRCCxKATIE HILL S**T IS GONNA HIT THE FAN IN THE NEWSLETTER THIS WEEK, BOYS. SUBSCRIBE'.
But after the NRCC denied the claims, Thomas conceded that the organization 'might have never had their hands on the photos.'
When the Washington Free Beacon contacted him in March 2020 with questions about his failure to disclose his relationship with Hill, Thomas did not respond.
When Thomas and Hill were spotted together at a Manhattan book party in February 2020, he denied any romantic involvement, and reportedly 'insisted that he and Hill are just pals and, in fact, they'd attended the bash with two other friends,' according to a New York Post report.
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