Donald Trump Jr. went on ABC’s The View to defend his father, President Trump, and promote his new book Triggered.
The hosts attacked him Thursday for publishing the name of the whistleblower, and Trump Jr. said he released it because it was already out on the Drudge Report and other news sites. He said the media were hypocritical for criticizing him because ABC had gotten their own whistleblower fired Thursday.
The son of the president blasted the network for criticizing him while getting CBS to fire the person who leaked video from a host saying they spiked the Jeffrey Epstein story three years ago.
“Let’s not kid ourselves,” he said. “ABC right now is chasing down a whistleblower about all of the Epstein stuff because those stories were killed. So, if we’re going to have the conversation about the outrage of whistleblowers, you worked with CBS to out the whistleblower.”
CBS fired a former ABC News employee for leaking video showing ABC host Amy Robach admitting her network had spiked the Epstein story three years before it eventually came out.
The president’s son named CIA officer Eric Ciaramella as the whistleblower after he tweeted out a link to a Breitbart story Wednesday.
Because of course he did!!!
Alleged ‘Whistleblower’ Eric Ciaramella Worked Closely with Anti-Trump Dossier Hoaxer https://t.co/v5kDe0X62u— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 6, 2019
Trump said on The View that he does not regret releasing the name of the whistleblower.
