BREAKING: Milo Yiannopoulos Has Resigned From Breitbart Citing His ‘Poor Choice of Words’

“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. This decision is mine alone,” he added.

“They have allowed me to carry conservative and libertarian ideas to communities that would otherwise never have heard them. They have been a significant factor in my success. I’m grateful for that freedom and for the friendships I forged there.”

Yiannopoulos will be holding a press conference in New York City at 3 p.m. on Tuesday.

The Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) decision to invite Yiannopoulos to speak this year drew outcry. In the aftermath, a video posted on Youtube in January 2016 reemerged over the weekend showing Yiannopoulos saying a relationship between an adult man and teenage boy can be beneficial. He also discussed his own sexual abuse as a teenager.

The fallout from the video reverberated throughout the political world and social media over the holiday weekend and earned swift condemnation from both sides of aisle.