Joe Biden's presidential campaign demanded on Sunday that major TV networks stop booking Rudy Giuliani, accusing President Donald Trump's personal lawyer of spreading "false, debunked conspiracy theories" on behalf of his client. "While you often fact check his statements in real time during your discussions, that is no longer enough," Biden senior adviser Anita Dunn and deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield wrote in a letter obtained by POLITICO. "By giving him your air time, you are allowing him to introduce increasingly unhinged, unfounded and desperate lies into the national conversation." Story Continued Below "We write to demand that in service to the facts, you no longer book Rudy Giuliani," they continued, suggesting that the Trump surrogate has "demonstrated that he will knowingly and willingly lie in order to advance his own narrative." Story Continued Below Giuliani has been at the forefront of pushing the unsupported allegation that Biden, while vice president, urged the firing of Ukraine's top prosecutor in March 2016 to benefit his son Hunter Biden, who was on the board of a major energy company in the country. The Obama administration, along with other Western nations, the International Monetary Fund and Ukrainian reformers, supported the firing of then-prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was seen as not aggressively pursuing corruption cases. Giuliani appeared on Sunday on ABC's "This Week" and CBS's "Face the Nation," with the shows' hosts, George Stephanopoulos and Margaret Brennan, respectively, among the recipients of the letter from the Biden campaign. The letter was sent to more than a dozen TV news executives and journalists, including the presidents of CNN (Jeff Zucker), Fox News (Suzanne Scott), MSNBC (Phil Griffin), ABC News (James Goldston), NBC News (Noah Oppenheim) and CBS News (Susan Zirinsky), and hosts such as CNN's Jake Tapper, NBC's Chuck Todd and Fox News' Chris Wallace. A CNN spokesperson declined to comment about the Biden campaign's letter. Representatives from Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, NBC and CBS did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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