Ex-Fox News Host Abby Huntsman: Spiking Stormy Daniels Story a ‘Real Problem’
Before joining The View, Abby Huntsman spent three years at Fox News as an occasional co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend. Even she thinks the network crossed a red line by reportedly spiking the Stormy Daniels hush-money story before Donald Trump was elected in 2016.
On Monday, The New Yorker published a bombshell report from Jane Mayer that detailed how, among other things, Fox News declined to run a story from reporter Diana Falzone, who had obtained proof that Trump engaged in an extramarital affair with porn star Stormy Daniels shortly after the birth of his youngest son, Barron.
“So much for the free press,” Joy Behar quipped. “Does this prove that Fox News is just a mouthpiece for the Trump administration or what?”
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