Sunny Hostin has already experienced this in the amount of books coming out from former Trump White House staff. So on Tuesday’s episode of “The View,” he unloaded.
To start the discussion on Hot Topics today, the women-who were reunited with former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin-talked about Mark Esper, the former secretary of defense, who revealed this week who Trump asked if American protesters could be shot in the streets. , and called some of his staff “f -ing losers.” The claims are just two of many allegations in Esper’s new book “A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times.”
Esper’s book is the latest to come from a former Trump aide, and many feel that these people should have revealed the information contained in their memoirs earlier. The leader of them was Hostin, and he did not speak on Tuesday.
“I think it’s a cowardly action. I’m tired of this ridiculous apology tour,” Hostin said. “I’m fed up! I get annoyed with people coming out now and trying to sell a book. The reason he speaks now is because he is trying to make money. And I think that is cowardly, I think it’s despicable, and I completely agree with Joy. It’s his new memoir, which by the way, came out today. And that’s why we hear about it.
At one point, guest host Griffin actually worked directly under Esper at the White House, so he tried to defend his former boss from Hostin’s anger. But Hostin didn’t get it.
“Did he testify during the impeachment? Did he testify? “Hostin fired quickly.” Did he tell us? Did he tell us something? He’s speaking now! No. No, he’s not getting a pass. “
That said, Griffin agreed with Hostin, as well as with Sara Haines, that the people who write these books should not profit directly from them, but instead, donate their profits to charitable funds.