President Donald Trump's favorite cable-news hosts directly addressed him on the morning after his widely condemned press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging him to publicly criticize Russian meddling in the 2016 US election after failing to do so Monday, according to Business Insider.
The cohost Abby Huntsman — whose father, Jon Huntsman, is Trump's ambassador to Russia — delivered the harshest critique of the president's performance, arguing that Putin's "ultimate goal in life is to undermine our democracy" and that Trump missed the "one moment that you had to stand up for your own country, stand up for your intelligence community."
On Monday afternoon, Huntsman accused Trump of "throwing your own people and country under the bus" by refusing to challenge Putin's claim that Russia was not involved in election meddling.
Brian Kilmeade, who very rarely issues any critique of the president, told the president to correct the record.
"When Newt Gingrich, when Gen. Jack Keane, when Matt Schlapp say the president fell short and made our intelligence apparatus look bad, I think it's time to pay attention, and it's easily correctable from the president's perspective," Kilmeade said.
The show's third host, Steve Doocy, called Trump's behavior "puzzling" and said "a lot of people are criticizing him for not being bold."
"Pretty much everyone and their brother — except for Vladimir Putin — knows that there was meddling," Doocy said.
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