Milo Yiannopoulos, the right-wing Breitbart News editor, has resigned amid his controversial comments over pedophilia.
On Tuesday, he issued a statement about his resignation, thanking the company for giving him the liberty, “to carry conservative and libertarian ideas to communities that would otherwise never have heard them.”
The statement has been released by Milo after Simon & Schuster canceled the book deal with him owing to the newly sparked controversy where his remarks were aimed at justifying the relationship between underage boys and older men. Besides, his invitation to speak at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference was also canceled.
Excerpt from his resignation statement:
“I would be wrong to allow my poor choice of words to detract from my colleagues’ important reporting, so today I am resigning from Breitbart, effective immediately,” Yiannopoulos said in a statement. “This decision is mine alone. When your friends have done right by you, you do right by them. For me, now, that means stepping aside so my colleagues at Breitbart can get back to the great work they do.”
