President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is pushing television networks to reconsider interviewing guests who’ve accused the commander in chief of collusion with Russia, but a former employee of one of Trump’s favorite channels is speaking out in opposition. Abby Huntsman, a co-host on ABC’s “The View” who previously co-hosted “Fox & Friends” (and is also a former host of the now-defunct HuffPost Live), criticized the memo Trump’s campaign sent Monday to news outlets, suggesting it was playing with double standards. “Should we block White House folks that come on shows that say ... ‘alternative facts,’ or, according to Rudy Giuliani, ‘truth isn’t truth?’” she asked on Tuesday’s episode of the show. Giuliani, Trump’s attorney, shocked viewers in a “Meet the Press” interview of his own when he uttered his infamous “truth isn’t truth” remark while explaining that he didn’t want Trump to be caught in a perjury trap if he agreed to testify in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Now that Attorney General William Barr has released his summary of Mueller’s report, writing that the special counsel investigation did not determine that the Trump campaign had committed collusion, Huntsman said it was time to move on.

Source: Huffington Post March 26, 2019 18:33 UTC