‘The View’s’ Sunny Hostin Criticizes ‘Morning Joe’ Anchors Joe and Mika for Meeting Trump: You Don’t Need to ‘Sit Down for 90 Min. at Mar-a-Lago and Kiss His Ring’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin is speaking out against Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s decision to meet with President-elect Donald Trump ahead of his return to the White House.

The “Morning Joe” co-anchors visited Trump and members of his team at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, Nov. 15. It was the first time in seven years that Scarborough and Brzezinski met Trump in person, with Brzezinski saying that “what we did agree on was to restart communications.” Hostin reacted to the revelation by telling her “The View” co-hosts: “The bottom line is America needs a free press that is willing to speak truth to power, right now more than ever.

And I think we have to be very clear-eyed when we think about the President-elect and cover the President elect. And I don’t think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring to be able to speak truth and be able to cover a story.” Scarborough and Brzezinski are “opinion journalists” and not necessarily reporters, Hostin then admitted before adding: “We have to remember that Trump is the guy who ushered in the era of fake news.

He’s the guy who ushered in alternative facts. He is the guy who attacked three Black female journalists. He’s the guy that revoked Jim Acosta’s press credentials for asking a question.