“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg attempted to shrug off her own appearance in recently-released documents related to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, claiming during a Tuesday broadcast that she was “too old” for his tastes.
Goldberg, who reportedly reached out to the disgraced financier with a request to borrow his jet, argued on Tuesday that she “wasn’t his friend” and complained that people were making claims linking her to Epstein without first getting all the facts.
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After two weeks of silence, The View finally addresses Whoopi Goldberg being in the Epstein files and seemingly requesting to borrow his jet.
JOY BEHAR: Anybody can be on this list.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Anybody. Well, this is my point. Because, I’m telling you when I tell you… pic.twitter.com/7vBqpKFTHD
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“Now, in the name of transparency … my name is in the files,” Goldberg said, beginning the segment by showing an email that linked her to Epstein. “Yes! And what does it say? It says, ‘Whoopi needs a plane to get to Monaco.'”
She explained that she’d been trying to get to a charity event and had simply needed to find transportation.
“So, in other words, anybody can be on this list,” co-host Joy Behar said.
“Anybody — well, this is my point. Because I’m telling you when I tell you people are trying to turn me into — I wasn’t his girlfriend. I wasn’t his friend,” Goldberg said.
“You were too old for him,” co-host Sara Haines joked.
“I was not only too old, but it was at a time, you know, where this is just not — you used to have to have facts before you said stuff,” Goldberg — who was suspended for saying that the Holocaust was “not about race” and suggested Dr. (Ed.) Jill Biden would be an excellent Surgeon General — complained.
Behar quickly flipped the conversation to attack President Donald Trump, adding, “But Trump is on the list 38,000 times. Come on!”
“Well, I can’t speak to him, but I’m speaking about me because I’m getting dragged,” Goldberg continued. “People actually believe that I was with him. It’s like, honey, come on.”
Haines suggested that people were just looking for scapegoats in the list of names recently connected to Epstein — some of whom, such as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, were already dead.
“They dropped like 300 names and it’s like flood the zone because when you look in there, there’s people like Marilyn Monroe, who was dead … because a lot of the reasons your name can be mentioned are news articles, third party emails, contacts, again, wealthy, famous people often cross in professional and social circles, so that’s not the surprising part,” she said.
Despite defending Goldberg’s connection to Epstein as simply the result of “wealthy, famous people” traveling in similar orbits, it did not appear to occur to anyone at the table that Trump — who also qualifies as a “wealthy, famous” person — might be able to explain his own appearance in the Epstein documents the same way.
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