'The View' co-hosts panned for praising CNN's Kasie Hunt on abruptly ending Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt's interview

CNN host Kasie Hunt ended her interview with guest Karoline Leavitt after the latter attacked June 27 CNN debate moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash
PUBLISHED JUN 24, 2024
'The View' co-hosts gushed about CNN host Kasie Hunt (R) interrupting her interview with Donald Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt (Getty Images)
'The View' co-hosts gushed about CNN host Kasie Hunt (R) interrupting her interview with Donald Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt (Getty Images)

NEW YORK POST, NEW YORK: The co-hosts of 'The View' gushed about CNN host Kasie Hunt interrupting her interview with Donald Trump's spokesperson Karoline Leavitt on Monday, June 24, citing her criticism of debate moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash for their perceived bias.

"That was so good," co-host Whoopi Goldberg remarked with a smile after a clip of the exchange was played, per Fox News.



 

Karoline Leavitt told Kasie Hunt that Donald Trump was 'knowingly going into a hostile environment'

With regard to CNN, Leavitt informed Hunt that Trump was "knowingly going into a hostile environment with debate moderators who have made their opinions about him very well known over the past eight years on this very network."

Leavitt was given the chance to return to talking about policy by an offended Hunt, but when Leavitt began focusing on Tapper once more, she abruptly ended the interview.

(Facebook/Leavitt, Getty Images)
Karoline Leavitt (R) was given the chance to return to talking about policy by an offended Kasie Hunt (L) before the CNN host abruptly ended the interview (Facebook/Karoline Leavitt, Getty Images)

'The View' co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin says Donald Trump suffers from 'grievance' and 'rage'

"You are a campaign spokesperson," 'The View' co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said. "You should be there to talk about what’s Donald Trump’s proactive agenda for the American people? How does he want to build the middle class or secure the border? But she can’t. It’s grievance. It’s rage. It’s retribution. It’s the same thing that he suffers from."

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 14: Alyssa Farah Griffin attends the 2024 Disney Upfront at Javits Center on May 14, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage)
Alyssa Farah Griffin said 'You should be there to talk about what’s Donald Trump’s proactive agenda for the American people,' about Karoline Leavitt (Getty Images)

'The View ' co-host Sunny Hostin praises Kasie Hunt for handling Karoline Leavitt's interview well

Hunt's interviewing style was commended by co-host Sunny Hostin, who also echoed NBC News' Lester Holt's 2021 statement that "the idea we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in."



 

"She was being fair to the truth," Hostin said, referring to Hunt. "She was trying to get to the facts. [Leavitt] refused to get to the facts … When that happens, you cut the mic. You cut the mic, and that’s what she did," Hostin continued.

Goldberg agreed and argued it was nothing new, saying, "They talk at you, not to you, and that’s what she was doing, and she was doing it, and it’s not new."

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Kasie Hunt's interviewing style was commended by co-host Sunny Hostin (Pictured) (Getty Images)

Whoopi Goldberg claims media has 'pretty much always been fair to each side'

According to Goldberg, "the media has pretty much always been fair to each side." She cited her two Republican co-hosts, Navarro and Griffin, who consistently agree with their liberal co-hosts on the GOP and Trump, as evidence that the show's co-hosts "have to tell you both sides."

"We can’t allow, on this show, to have things said that we know for a fact are not true. That’s what it used to be. That’s what it needs to go back to being, and that’s where you all come in," Goldberg said. "It’s OK to feel how you feel, but demand the truth. Demand folks fact-check what they’re telling you because what they’re telling you is important."

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According to Whoopi Goldberg, 'the media has pretty much always been fair to each side' (Getty Images)

Karoline Leavitt was not making inaccurate statements

Leavitt, however, wasn't making false claims; rather, she was expressing his disapproval of Tapper and Bash for their disparaging remarks about the former president.

The Trump staffer informed Hunt that it would only take five minutes to look up Tapper and his analysis of the former president, following the latter's attempt to redirect the conversation back to the debate during their Monday exchange.

"Ma'am, I'm going to stop this interview if you're going to continue to attack my colleagues," Hunt said, before ending the interview.

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KarolineLeavitt, however, wasn't making false claims; rather, she was expressing his disapproval of Dana Bash and Jake Tapper (Pictured) for their disparaging remarks about Donald Trump (Getty Images)

Karoline Leavitt's comments after her CNN interview with Kasie Hunt ended abruptly 

Leavitt told Fox News that CNN's actions were more proof that Trump wouldn't get fair treatment.

"CNN cutting off my microphone for bringing up a debate moderator’s history of anti-Trump lies just proves our point that President Trump will not be treated fairly in Thursday’s debate. Yet President Trump is still willing to go into this 3-1 fight to bring his winning message to the American people, and he will win," Leavitt told the outlet on Monday.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 29: Karoline Leavitt, campaign press secretary for former U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives for his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 29, 2024 in New York City. Judge Juan Merchan will give the jury their instructions before they begin deliberations today. The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty Images)
Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that CNN and host Kasie Hunt's actions were more proof that Donald Trump wouldn't get fair treatment in June 27 presidential debate (Getty Images)

Internet says 'The View should be ignored'

Netizens berated 'The View' for supporting Hunt's unprofessional attitude towards Trump's spokesperson.

One X (formerly Twitter) user penned, "The View should be ignored until we can arrest them for hate speech/treason after Trump gets installed."

"Bash and Tapper are biased and manipulative. They will make creepy Joe look good although he doesn’t know what he is talking about or where he is," opined one.

Another added, "The View doesn't believe in freedom of speech. When ever someone with an opposing view starts to make a point, they start talking over them or cut them off altogether."

" ... I cut off The View & CNN several years ago," one echoed and another commented, "The View is a anti America disgrace."



 



 



 



 



 

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