Tensions rose on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; when co-hosts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sunny-hostin-blows-off-chinas-concentration-camps-says-its-worse-that-america-puts-black-people-in-jail" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunny Hostin</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-view-piles-on-republican-host-for-daring-to-say-mental-health-is-related-to-shootings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alyssa Farah Griffin</a> clashed over what they believe might happen to former President Donald Trump in the wake of his Tuesday indictment.
The two butted heads during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast when Griffin suggested that the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-delivers-feisty-mar-a-lago-speech-after-new-york-arraignment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alvin Bragg</a> — which included 34 felony counts — would not be successful in &#8220;taking Trump down.&#8221;
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Whoopi demands that people just let Bragg &quot;do his job&quot; and prosecute Trump. &quot;You don&#39;t bring stuff you don&#39;t think you can prove. He thinks he can do it.&quot; She demands charges against Hunter Biden if there&#39;s evidence of a crime and says Bragg should go after Trump even if he fails <a href="https://t.co/15QW1pubBc">pic.twitter.com/15QW1pubBc</a>
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&#8220;Two things can be true at once. Yesterday was a bad day for Donald Trump, the first indicted former president,&#8221; Griffin began. &#8220;I want to see this guy held accountable. This case is not taking Donald Trump down, and I say that for a couple of reasons &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;How do you know that?&#8221; Hostin objected, interrupting.
Griffin noted that there was no conspiracy charge — which she said many people had been waiting to see — and Hostin brushed that off, saying that conspiracy would have been much harder to prove.
Griffin went on to point out that four years was the maximum sentence carried by each charge against Trump, saying that it was far more likely he&#8217;d be slapped with a fine and probation given that it was a first offense and a non-violent crime.
&#8220;Every legal expert I&#8217;ve talked to said most likely a fine and probation if he&#8217;s even convicted,&#8221; she said, and Hostin interrupted again.
&#8220;I’ll tell you why you’re wrong as this legal expert. That is wrong! I will tell you why you’re wrong,&#8221; she insisted.
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&#8220;He&#8217;s not going to jail over this,&#8221; Griffin stood her ground.
&#8220;Prosecutors are not only in the business of prosecuting crimes. They&#8217;re in the business of sending out a message,&#8221; Hostin declared, adding, &#8220;If you let the President of the United States be found guilty of 1-34 counts, even if they&#8217;re misdemeanors, and he gets to go home scot-free? You&#8217;re sending a message to the country that it&#8217;s okay, and that&#8217;s not going to happen.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not scot-free,&#8221; Griffin pushed back. &#8220;We’re just saying it’s going to be a fine and probation.&#8221;
&#8220;It won’t be serving time necessarily,&#8221; co-host Sara Haines added as they all began talking over each other.

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'The View' Hosts Clash Over Trump's Likely Fate

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; — including new Republican co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin — were all in agreement on Wednesday when they attacked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for giving thousands of hours of January 6 footage to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
The women on the panel voiced their concerns — ranging from complaints about the fact that Carlson works for Fox News to worries that anyone <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/speaker-mccarthy-releases-41000-hours-of-exclusive-jan-6-footage-to-tucker-carlson-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">releasing the footage</a> could give potential terrorists access to information about Capitol security.
Joy Behar led the charge, attacking Carlson and Fox News directly. &#8220;They go on the air and tell people all these lies that they don&#8217;t even believe themselves. And now he&#8217;s handed all this footage from January 6 to propagandize on Fox,&#8221; she claimed, adding that Carlson &#8220;is saying to us basically, don&#8217;t believe your eyes, believe what I tell you.&#8221;
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Alyssa Farah Griffin claims Tucker having the videos is a security risk for the Capitol. &quot;This raises huge safety and security concerns for the Capitol!&quot; She suggests Tucker will reveal evacuation points, saferooms, and security camera locations and will enable another 9/11. <a href="https://t.co/cC6uqXqMqR">pic.twitter.com/cC6uqXqMqR</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1628429080969224194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This raises huge safety and security concerns for the Capitol,&#8221; Griffin agreed, saying that showing that footage to the general public gave everyone access to the locations of security cameras throughout the Capitol building and could also reveal information about escape routes and safe rooms that are located throughout the facility.
&#8220;As a Republican, we always say we &#8216;back the blue,'&#8221; she said, adding, &#8220;Well, you just exposed the entire Capitol and undermined the Capitol Police and their safety precautions for something like a January 6, were it to ever happen again, or something like 9/11 where the Capitol was targeted.&#8221;
After Behar cut in to suggest that it might be illegal for Carlson to have the tapes, and while former prosecutor Sunny Hostin said that it was not illegal, she complained that Carlson was not real news and argued that he would not give the footage a fair showing.
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Sara Haines asserts Tucker &quot;only has bad intentions &#8230; nefarious intentions&quot; and will use the video to help terrorists scout the &quot;White House.&quot; She pushed the debunked conspiracy theory that Republican members of Congress helped rioters scout the Capitol. <a href="https://t.co/nhH6TqKq2K">pic.twitter.com/nhH6TqKq2K</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1628431774287101952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Co-host Sara Haines agreed that Carlson would not present the &#8220;news&#8221; and said she agreed with Griffin that the main concern was whether showing the footage would compromise security. She then claimed that it had been proven that Republican members of Congress had <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/capitol-police-nix-jan-6-panels-claim-gop-rep-led-recon-mission-day-before-riots/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">given tours</a> to people before the riot, showing them where certain things were located.
Haines then claimed that nothing good could come of Americans seeing the footage anyway, since the January 6 Committee had <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/anti-trump-republican-is-selling-autographed-copies-of-january-6th-report-for-charity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already concluded</a> its investigation and reported its conclusions.

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'The View' Hosts — Even Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin — Are Really Mad That Tucker Got The J6 Tapes

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Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; got heated when the topic turned to the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/police-warn-of-shots-fired-at-michigan-state-university/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Monday evening shooting</a> at the Michigan State University campus — and Republican co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, in addition to defending the Second Amendment, dared to suggest that mental health played a role in mass shootings.
Griffin conceded that she would support some additional gun control measures, saying that she was in favor of broader background checks and red flag laws, but argued that individual firearm ownership was protected in the Constitution and that should not be changed.
&#8220;Legal gun ownership is fundamental in this country,&#8221; she said.
Co-host <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-view-hosts-spar-over-guns-after-michigan-school-shooting-its-all-about-banning-those-guns/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunny Hostin</a> brought up the AR-15 — despite it appearing that the shooter at MSU likely used a handgun — referring to it as a &#8220;weapon of mass destruction&#8221; and asking Griffin whether she believed &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; should be legal. Griffin pointed out the fact that sportsmen and collectors favored the AR-15.
&#8220;You can’t shoot anything with an AR-15 and get any meat. That’s not sportsmanship. I’m just saying,&#8221; co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed.
Griffin continued to push back, saying that while she agreed more could be done to keep guns out of the hands of bad people, shootings were clearly a societal problem — and she argued that one thing that was impossible to ignore was the fact that so many mass shooters fit the same general profile: male loners in their teens-to-mid-forties.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin notes that &quot;we have a crisis of young men in this country&quot; pointing to how most mass shooters fit a certain profile. She notes &quot;the left will not touch the mental health side&quot; of the issue and gets pounced on by Sunny, who proves her point. <a href="https://t.co/t6kfLBYfkc">pic.twitter.com/t6kfLBYfkc</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1625898722230935553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Noting that, statistically, young men were less likely to graduate college than young women and more likely to be arrested or die by suicide, she added, &#8220;What is going on with young men in our country that is allowing this to happen, because guns are part of the problem absolutely, but this is where I worry the left and the right bear some responsibility.&#8221;
&#8220;The left will not touch the mental health side of this and the right will not touch the gun side,&#8221; Griffin asserted, prompting objections from co-hosts Joy Behar and Goldberg — but then Hostin jumped in and proved Griffin&#8217;s point.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve said this many many times, let&#8217;s stop blaming mental health,&#8221; Hostin said, arguing that people with mental health issues were more likely to be the victims of crimes than the perpetrators.
&#8220;People who shoot up Sandy Hook, that&#8217;s not a person in their right mind,&#8221; Griffin pushed back.

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‘The View’ Piles On Republican Host For Daring To Say Mental Health Is Related To Shootings

'The View' Piles On Republican Host For Daring To Say Mental Health Is Related To Shootings

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&#8220;The View&#8221; got a bit heated on Tuesday as the co-hosts responded to former Governor Nikki Haley (R-SC), who <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nikki-haley-declares-her-candidacy-for-the-presidency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">formally announced</a> that she planned to seek the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Republican co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin defended <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/we-wont-see-an-apology-nikki-haley-doubles-down-after-dust-up-with-the-view/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Haley</a> — saying that she was happy to see someone ready to take on former President Donald Trump — but her co-hosts piled on almost immediately.
Whoopi Goldberg attacked first, saying, “Since you have been asleep this whole time and you just woke up, you’re just finding out that there are things about our country that are not perfect and for us to pretend that it is and that nothing happened is ridiculous, so you’re not saying anything new. And you of all people should know better because you used to actually have some sanity and knew right from wrong and then you lost your mind and went into some new direction, so don’t do that!&#8221;
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Joy Behar claims Haley is &quot;part of the invasion of the bodysnatchers,&quot; one of &quot;these politicians on the right who now have become mentally crazy.&quot; Joy falsely accuses her of being an election denier and racist Sunny Hostin calls it &quot;terrifying&quot; that she supported Herschel Walker. <a href="https://t.co/JBpRS9lOKF">pic.twitter.com/JBpRS9lOKF</a>
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Joy Behar weighed in next, calling Haley &#8220;part of the invasion of the bodysnatchers&#8221; and saying that the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations was one of &#8220;these politicians on the Right who now have become like mentally crazy.&#8221;
Behar went on to call Haley an &#8220;election denier&#8221; and criticized her for supporting Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R-GA).
Griffin jumped in then, complaining that her co-hosts wouldn&#8217;t even give her a few minutes to be excited about <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/sunny-isnt-your-birth-name-nikki-haley-fires-back-at-the-view-for-calling-her-an-ethnic-chameleon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Haley&#8217;s</a> candidacy, saying, &#8220;I’ve seen her take on dictators straight to their face. In every room I’ve been in with her, she’s the smartest in the room.&#8221;
Goldberg just laughed.
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Sara Haines whines about Haley&#39;s ad calling out Bernie Sanders, Biden, Pelosi, and Kamala as &quot;the socialist left.&quot; She does call out The View&#39;s video editors for cutting out the part of the ad where Haley talked about being an immigrant. She then attacks Haley as &quot;robotic.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/BKlbdoh1MK">pic.twitter.com/BKlbdoh1MK</a>
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Sara Haines attempted to rein in the criticisms, telling Griffin that she understood why people might see Haley as a &#8220;step up&#8221; from former President Donald Trump — the only other candidate to have formally declared a 2024 presidential run — but took issue with Haley for saying that Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Vice President Kamala Harris, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) were all part of the &#8220;socialist Left.&#8221;
Sunny Hostin responded by attacking Haley for failing to get rid of the Confederate flag in South Carolina before a mass shooting at a church, adding, &#8220;I think she’s very much a political grifter and a chameleon and the bar is very low because it’s on the ground.&#8221;
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Racist Whoopi says she can&#39;t tell the difference between Senator Tim Scott, who is black, and Senator Rick Scott, who is white. <a href="https://t.co/4lWXy4IJmy">pic.twitter.com/4lWXy4IJmy</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1625534982935527429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Griffin pushed back, saying she believed the American people deserved two strong parties from which to choose — and argued that Haley&#8217;s inclusion made Republicans stronger.

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<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/whoopi-goldberg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whoopi Goldberg</a> suggested on Thursday that it wouldn&#8217;t be so bad to teach Critical Race Theory to kids, arguing that maybe white kids deserved to feel like the oppressors if learning history made them feel bad about themselves.
Goldberg made the comments during Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/the-view/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The View</a>&#8221; — and while she continued to insist that elements of <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory</a> were not being taught to young children, she suggested that conservative objections to it were still misplaced.
Republican co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin used the conversation to attack Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), claiming that efforts to block certain parts of an <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/theyre-advocating-for-things-like-abolishing-prisons-desantis-discusses-why-he-banned-african-american-studies-course/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">African American Studies class</a> amounted to &#8220;erasing history&#8221; of black Americans and asserting that school children in Florida would no longer be taught about slavery or the American Civil War.
DeSantis made it clear that students would still be taught history and explained why he moved to block the course, saying, &#8220;They’re advocating things like abolishing prisons. Now that’s a radical political position. You’re free to take that in your own life, I don’t think very many people think that would actually work, but how is that being taught as fact? &#8230; That is more ideology being used under the guise of history, and we want to do history.&#8221;
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Whoopi admits CRT in schools is to make white kids feel like oppressors. &quot;If you&#39;re so concerned that white children are going to feel bad because history happened and they happen to be white, how do you think black kids are feeling?&quot; She claims GOP trying to &quot;erase&quot; people. <a href="https://t.co/RiUjyyq8BM">pic.twitter.com/RiUjyyq8BM</a>
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Griffin attempted to draw a line between banning African American history — which she continued to claim was DeSantis&#8217; goal — and banning Critical Race Theory from seeping into younger grades, but Goldberg refused to let her finish and asserted that CRT was not being taught anywhere.
Goldberg then went on to suggest that there was no validity to the complaints coming in — primarily from those on the Right — about the impact of CRT and the idea that it painted all white people as &#8220;oppressors,&#8221; arguing that if history made people feel bad about who they were then maybe they should feel bad.
&#8220;Think about this: if you&#8217;re so concerned that your children — and particularly I&#8217;m talking about white children because that&#8217;s the conversation that they seem to be having — if you&#8217;re so concerned that white children are going to feel bad because history happened and they happen to be white, how do you think black kids are feeling?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;The reason that black history has come into the zeitgeist, the reason that Asian history has come into the zeitgeist, the reason that any other history than English-American history is because nobody was represented.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s why this history is coming, and the great thing about America has always been, yeah, we know we step in it, but we try to step back from it,&#8221; Goldberg concluded, claiming that the GOP was trying to stop the country from stepping back — and in doing so, was attempting to &#8220;erase&#8221; people.

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Whoopi Suggests It’s Fine To Make White Kids Feel Like Oppressors

Whoopi Suggests It's Fine To Make White Kids Feel Like Oppressors

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White House Press Secretary <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> appeared to blow off Americans&#8217; apparent concerns about a potential second term for President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>, saying simply, &#8220;Polls go up. Polls go down.&#8221;
Just hours ahead of Biden&#8217;s planned State of the Union address on Tuesday, Jean-Pierre joined ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; to preview his remarks and discuss what direction the administration planned to take in the next two years.
Jean-Pierre touted the Biden economy even as a recent <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/record-numbers-worse-off-recipe-political-discontent-poll/story?id=96884607" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC/Washington Post poll</a> revealed that 41% of those surveyed felt they were worse off financially than they had been two years ago — the most to say that since the poll began asking that question some 37 years ago.
By comparison, at the same point in former President Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency, just 13% said they were worse off, while 25% said that they were better off.
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Asked about Americans&#39; concerns about the economy, White House <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheView?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheView</a>: &quot;We understand Americans are still feeling some of that struggle, they are still feeling what we have gone through — one of the worst pandemics in a century.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA">https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA</a> <a href="https://t.co/pFzvSl5ry3">pic.twitter.com/pFzvSl5ry3</a>
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Sara Haines pushed back on Jean-Pierre&#8217;s claims about the economy, asking, &#8220;Now if the economy is strong, why don’t more Americans feel that way?&#8221;
&#8220;What the president has done is transform the way we think about it, right? We used to talk about the trickle down economy. He doesn’t say that. He doesn’t believe in that. He believes in building an economy from the bottom up, middle out,&#8221; Jean-Pierre replied.
She went on to say, as Biden has in the past, that the administration was not putting much stock in polls: &#8220;Polls go up. Polls go down. We all know this. I know you all talk about this very often, so we know that’s a reality.&#8221;
But co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin challenged Jean-Pierre directly, citing another number from that same poll indicating that some 58% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents would prefer to have someone else run on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket.
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White House <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> Karine Jean-Pierre to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheView?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheView</a>: &quot;[Pres. Biden] has said very explicitly, many, many times, that he intends to run [in 2024].&quot; <a href="https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA">https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA</a> <a href="https://t.co/jnADzE5JZL">pic.twitter.com/jnADzE5JZL</a>
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&#8220;Voters are even less enthused about Biden running again than Trump, a low bar. How do you respond to that fact that a whopping 58% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents want someone other than the president to run?&#8221; Griffin asked.
Jean-Pierre responded by simply citing the Hatch Act and repeating the president&#8217;s claim that he intends to run for reelection in 2024.

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‘Polls Go Up. Polls Go Down’: Karine Jean-Pierre Blows Off Concerns That Things Are Worse Under Biden

Karine Jean-Pierre Blows Off Concerns That Things Are Worse Under Biden

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On any other day, all the hosts of ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; — save for Republican host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/thats-not-fairsuch-a-cheap-shot-the-view-blows-up-as-alyssa-farah-griffin-and-kellyanne-conway-clash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alyssa Farah Griffin</a> — might have trashed former Vice President <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/report-classified-documents-found-at-former-vp-mike-pences-home-in-indiana/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Pence</a> when news broke that he had discovered classified documents in his possession.
But during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast, the hosts seemed amused and even relieved to hear the news claiming that the reports took some of the sting out of the still-unfolding scandal surrounding President Joe Biden and the multiple classified documents found at his home, in his garage, and at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin explains the chaotic transition period in the Trump White House leading The View cast to suspect that she might have classified documents. &quot;So should we be concerned about you? Do you have boxes?&quot; Whoopi asks. Alyssa responds with a nod, a smile, and a laugh. <a href="https://t.co/pjSX88alBU">pic.twitter.com/pjSX88alBU</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1618281805605380099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Whoopi Goldberg opened the conversation, asking with a laugh whether every former president and vice president should be checking their offices and libraries just to be sure they hadn&#8217;t taken anything they shouldn&#8217;t have.
Sunny Hostin was the first to give Pence a pass, arguing that in all of the chaos after the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, the vice president may have panicked and packed in a hurry.
&#8220;I feel like now every president and vice president is a suspect,&#8221; she said, adding in mocking tones, &#8220;Are the documents in the conservatory with the wrench?&#8221;
Griffin agreed, explaining that Pence had always been extremely careful when she worked for him — even to the point of doing briefings in the Situation Room just in case anything classified might come up.
She went on to say that she believed the chaos of the transition — and a possible staffer error — was likely the reason classified material had gotten into Pence&#8217;s home.
&#8220;So should we be concerned about you? Do you have boxes?&#8221; Goldberg asked Griffin then, getting a laugh.
Goldberg then went on to argue that the news took some of the heat off Biden, saying, &#8220;Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.&#8221;
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Joy Behar is excited that Pence had documents because it supposedly means AG Garland can try to put Trump in prison again.&quot;I thought, maybe Merrick Garland would think it was just politically motivated to go after Trump &#8230; Now they don&#39;t have to worry about that&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/VdZQM3HHlY">pic.twitter.com/VdZQM3HHlY</a>
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Joy Behar said that Pence finding documents opened the door for Attorney General Merrick Garland to move forward with anything he had wanted to pursue with regard to former President Donald Trump. &#8220;I thought, maybe Merrick Garland would think it was just politically motivated to go after Trump &#8230; Now they don&#8217;t have to worry about that,&#8221; she said.
Hostin concluded by noting that she was a <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1618300942364905476" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bit concerned</a> about former President Barack Obama&#8217;s legacy — especially if it were later discovered that he had anything classified in his possession.
&#8220;But I do feel like now every president and vice president is a suspect,&#8221; she repeated, adding, &#8220;They have been looking to tarnish [Obama&#8217;s] legacy forever.&#8221;

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‘The View’ Hosts Are … Happy That Mike Pence Had Classified Docs?

'The View' Hosts Are ... Happy That Mike Pence Had Classified Docs?

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Mike Pence

<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/let-me-explain-something-exasperated-whoopi-lectures-joni-ernst-says-iowa-is-too-white-to-lead-primaries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whoopi Goldberg</a> suggested during Tuesday’s broadcast of “The View” that her “freedom from religious beliefs” carried more weight than others&#8217; rights to practice their respective religions.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/even-whoopi-admits-ny-post-cover-calling-desantis-defuture-is-hysterical/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goldberg</a> and her co-hosts discussed the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/scotus-starts-case-with-enormous-religious-freedom-implications/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">case</a> that is currently before the Supreme Court — 303 Creative v. Elenis — and throughout the segment Goldberg appeared to argue both sides of the case. She claimed that it was discrimination for the woman named in the case — Lorie Smith — to refuse to create a website for a same-sex wedding, but then later argued that she would refuse to bake a cake with a swastika on it because that would be &#8220;anti-human being.&#8221;
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Despite the fact doctors would lose their licenses, Whoopi doubles down on her false assertion that Christian doctors are fine with gays dying from a lack of medical treatment. And she says this is like people saying &quot;I don&#39;t want to serve you because you&#39;re black.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/awIy3MNgqv">pic.twitter.com/awIy3MNgqv</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1600161581928685570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Supreme Court conservatives seem poised to agree with her, but here&#8217;s what I want to know: Whose religious freedom are we protecting, because she&#8217;s pooping on my religious freedom,&#8221; Goldberg asserted. &#8220;The whole idea in the Constitution, about freedom from religious beliefs, is that you don&#8217;t have to subscribe to your neighbor&#8217;s belief. That&#8217;s the beauty of it.&#8221;
Goldberg went on to suggest, without any evidence and without noting that it would be illegal, that a reasonable comparison was a doctor who would allow certain patients to die based on political beliefs rather than treat them. She then argued that the obvious result, if Smith were to win the case, would be people refusing to serve others because of race or gender in addition to sexual orientation.
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Co-host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/that-really-makes-me-nuts-joy-behar-ties-colorado-springs-shooting-to-lauren-boeberts-2021-christmas-photo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Behar</a> took a different approach, asking whether a baker would be compelled to bake a cake that featured a swastika as part of the decoration — to which Sunny Hostin replied that it would depend on whether the person ordering the cake was in a &#8220;protected class.&#8221;
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Sara Haines points out that both the web designer and baker serve gay clients, they just disagree with the weddings. She argues the wedding part makes it different than Whoopi&#39;s claim that it&#39;s like barring full service based on race. <a href="https://t.co/z6S89Lyxd2">pic.twitter.com/z6S89Lyxd2</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1600166323052548101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Co-host Sara Haines added a caveat, noting that both the baker and the web designer in question had never refused to serve gay clients — their issue was simply with attaching their business name to a same-sex wedding. And while Haines said she didn&#8217;t agree with that position either, it was important to distinguish between outright discrimination based on sexual orientation and what was actually happening in those cases.
Republican co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that there was another issue in play as well, saying that she had a problem with the idea that the business owners were effectively being compelled to make a statement with which they did not agree.
She made the comparison to a gay web designer who might be asked to create an anti-LGBTQ website, arguing that they should also have the right to &#8220;opt out of that.&#8221;
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Whoopi scoffs at people who talk about &quot;freedoms.&quot; Says she&#39;ll refuse to bake the Nazi cake. Behar questions what would happen to her legally. Whoopi says she&#39;d be fine because &quot;we collectively don&#39;t want to see.&quot; Sara points out this is a private business, not city hall. <a href="https://t.co/9sLyM6kfoy">pic.twitter.com/9sLyM6kfoy</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1600169711739740161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg jumped back in to round out the conversation, this time taking the opposite position and claiming that if she were asked to bake a cake with a swastika on it she would refuse.
&#8220;To me, that is just anti-human being,&#8221; she said, and when Behar pressed her on whether or not she might face consequences for refusing, she argued, &#8220;That&#8217;s one of those things that we collectively say, &#8216;No, that&#8217;s not something we want to see.'&#8221;

Whoopi Suggests Her Right To Ignore Religion Trumps Someone Else’s Right To Practice Theirs

Whoopi Suggests Her Right To Ignore Religion Trumps Someone Else's Right To Practice Theirs

Constitution

<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/alyssa-farah-griffin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alyssa Farah Griffin</a>, Republican cohost of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; was talking about women attacking other women when cohost <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nfl-owner-jerry-jones-was-photographed-in-1957-65-years-later-ana-navarro-is-demanding-answers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ana Navarro</a> interrupted her to make a snide comment about former White House adviser Kellyanne Conway — immediately proving Griffin&#8217;s point.
Griffin made the comments during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of the midday talk show — which, with the exception of guests, is entirely hosted by women — and she argued that women still have room for improvement when it comes to supporting each other and having each other&#8217;s backs.
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Unfortunately, she walks it back a bit a short time later. &quot;Women support women more than they don&#39;t, but I think it&#39;s worth acknowledging when we&#39;re hard on each other,&quot; she says. She also thanks Whoopi for mentoring the rest of the cast. <a href="https://t.co/NBMpVP9m5i">pic.twitter.com/NBMpVP9m5i</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1599811707261566978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Griffin began by saying that she appreciated how far society had come in calling out certain male behaviors that were — in her words — &#8220;unhelpful.&#8221; And while she noted that women had also come a long way with regard to being more supportive of each other, she went on to say that she could certainly see room for improvement.
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&#8220;I think that women have made a ton of progress, but we can also be each other&#8217;s worst enemies,&#8221; Griffin said. &#8220;It&#8217;s still the case and I hate to say it. Some of the worst bosses I&#8217;ve had have been women, and sometimes colleagues in the workplace who are women, and I always think of the Madeleine Albright quote, —&#8221;
&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s what happens when you work with Kellyanne Conway,&#8221; Navarro interrupted.
&#8220;Well, I can&#8217;t really get a word in without you attacking me,&#8221; Griffin shot back. &#8220;So I wouldn&#8217;t say this is a totally different —&#8221;
&#8220;I haven&#8217;t attacked you,&#8221; Navarro interrupted again.
&#8220;— this isn’t like a totally different environment of women supporting each other. But Madeleine Albright always said, ‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help and support other women.&#8217; That’s something I try to live by. I think that we have a duty to kind of give that back especially for the women who come after us,&#8221; Griffin finished.
And Griffin isn&#8217;t the only one to notice a toxic environment on the ABC show. Former cohost Candace Cameron Bure <a href="https://ew.com/tv/candace-cameron-bure-ptsd-hosting-the-view/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reflected</a> on her time at &#8220;The View&#8221; and said that there were times when, as the only conservative on the panel, she felt like a &#8220;punching bag.&#8221;
&#8220;When I felt like I was going into a show that I didn&#8217;t have a clear opinion about or it was something that I was legitimately nervous to talk about because I did have an opinion about it but I knew I was the only one at the table that had my opinion, I would just get sick to my stomach. I hated that feeling. And then I&#8217;m like, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s going to come at me,'&#8221; she said, adding that she had ultimately left because she &#8220;did not want to be the punching bag for the next four years in that conservative seat.&#8221;

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Fox News host Greg Gutfeld unloaded on Alyssa Farah Griffin — the newest Republican co-host of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; — over her assessment of the recent scandal involving fashion house Balenciaga and a widely panned ad <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/outrage-ensues-over-balenciaga-using-young-children-to-advertise-alleged-bondage-teddy-bear-purses">campaign</a> involving children and BDSM-themed teddy bears.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/thats-not-fairsuch-a-cheap-shot-the-view-blows-up-as-alyssa-farah-griffin-and-kellyanne-conway-clash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Griffin</a> and her co-hosts on &#8220;The View&#8221; addressed the scandal earlier in the week but had appeared to reach the conclusion that Balenciaga&#8217;s unattractive clothing was more offensive than photographing young girls holding teddy bears that were dressed in bondage gear.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/the-view-hosts-admit-they-cant-even-show-balenciaga-fetish-themed-ad-with-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Griffin</a> also argued that one of the larger problems with ads like that was the fact that they gave &#8220;credence&#8221; to anti-LGBTQ sentiment and &#8220;far-right&#8221; efforts to attack the trans community in particular, &#8220;portraying trans people as groomers.&#8221;
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Sunny says the real problem with the ad campaign is that the clothes and bags are ugly. &quot;I don&#39;t know if their intent is to be subversive and draw attention to the issues, or are they just making ugly things,&quot; she huffed. <a href="https://t.co/GVMt0EJ7fG">pic.twitter.com/GVMt0EJ7fG</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1597271204360237059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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But Gutfeld pushed back, criticizing Griffin for her failure to just come out and say it was bad to sexualize children.
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Fox host Greg Gutfeld rips Alyssa Farah Griffin for her hot take on Balenciaga&#39;s BDSM/child porn ads: &quot;the worst part of the ad wasn&#39;t the actual sexualization of kids, it&#39;s that it gave the Right evidence of that sexualization of kids.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/A2PXcOaeQW">pic.twitter.com/A2PXcOaeQW</a>
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&#8220;They can&#8217;t agree with the right because then they lose their cash,&#8221; Gutfeld began, arguing that Griffin was among those tying themselves into rhetorical knots in order to avoid calling a spade a spade.
&#8220;On &#8216;The View,&#8217; which is the show for people whose sweat pants stick to the sofa, the only Republican host they have says the worst part of the ad wasn&#8217;t the actual sexualization of kids, it&#8217;s that it gave the right evidence of that sexualization of kids,&#8221; Gutfeld continued.
&#8220;So it&#8217;s not about the fashion company making light about pedophilia, it&#8217;s the insane takes about people making light of pedophilia,&#8221; the host added. &#8220;It&#8217;s not arson that&#8217;s bad, it&#8217;s those loud fire alarms that let you know it&#8217;s happening.&#8221;
Gutfeld went on to explain that the real conundrum actually boiled down to one simple but unbreakable rule: the Left cannot condemn anything — even if it is truly and objectively horrible — if it forces them to align even temporarily with a Republican.
A number of celebrities have <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/trash-day-brittany-aldean-shares-photo-of-balenciaga-gear-stuffed-in-garbage-bags/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized Balenciaga</a> in the wake of the ad campaign — including Brittany Aldean, who gathered items from the fashion house into two large bags and announced that it was &#8220;Trash Day.&#8221;

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Gutfeld Destroys Republican Host Of ‘The View’ Over Balenciaga Hot Take

Gutfeld Destroys Republican Host Of 'The View' Over Balenciaga Hot Take

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Greg Gutfeld

&#8220;The View&#8221; host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/do-they-want-to-live-in-a-handmaids-tale-sunny-hostin-screams-at-white-women-compares-them-to-roaches-voting-for-raid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunny Hostin</a>, along with several of her co-hosts, suggested that Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett should recuse herself from cases involving religious liberty — and then claimed that if she were on the Court, she could be impartial.
Hostin — joined by co-hosts Ana Navarro and Joy Behar — argued that Justice Barrett&#8217;s <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/the-view-host-says-justice-barrett-deserved-a-religious-test-even-though-theyre-illegal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal religious views</a> and associations made it impossible for her to be impartial when religious liberty was in question. Co-hosts Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin suggested that personal beliefs and legal philosophy were not necessarily intertwined.
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Anti-Catholic bigotry on The View. The cast calls for Justice Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from a religious liberty case because she&#39;s Catholic. Joy Behar accuses ACB of renouncing her faith and was corrected. Sunny whines that Catholic justices don&#39;t all recuse themselves <a href="https://t.co/7j5Ss13ag6">pic.twitter.com/7j5Ss13ag6</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1597265587536859138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Behar began the segment by describing the case — which involves a woman who wants to post a statement declaring that she will not design wedding websites for same-sex couples because of her beliefs — and claimed that Barrett should recuse herself because the People of Praise group to which she belongs supports traditional marriage as well.
Hostin pointed out that Barrett — like several other justices on the Court — is Catholic, and the rest of the Catholic justices do not recuse themselves either. She went on to suggest that Barrett was especially problematic, however, and lamented the fact that there was no procedure for forcing judges to remove themselves from cases.
Griffin jumped in then, arguing that at some point people have to trust the justices to be professionals and pointing out the fact that Hostin is Catholic and could be impartial if called upon — and Hostin agreed, &#8220;I could be impartial.&#8221;
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Sara Haines defends ACB for not refusing herself, noting they need to cite and source their opinions. &quot;So despite maybe not liking where she gets through her legal philosophy, I don&#39;t think it necessarily is immersed in just her religious belief,&quot; she argued. <a href="https://t.co/Gw4fldDaS5">pic.twitter.com/Gw4fldDaS5</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1597267003215171584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Haines added that while she disagreed personally — with both Barrett&#8217;s judicial philosophy and her religious beliefs — she could also see how the two might not be intertwined.
Navarro objected, claiming that the Court was already facing a &#8220;crisis of credibility&#8221; and arguing that Barrett should recuse herself because the American people might not believe she was able to separate the two. &#8220;We can trust the process, but do I trust the justices?&#8221; she asked.
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Pure ignorance. Joy claims ACB holds the rank of &quot;handmaid&quot; within the Catholic Church, citing the Washington Post. Joy continued to condemn ACB for being a member of a Catholic group, which is not a party to the case coming before the court. <a href="https://t.co/Lfy5ymBrIM">pic.twitter.com/Lfy5ymBrIM</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1597268877280530433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Behar rounded out the segment by noting that some had referred to Barrett as a &#8220;<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/newsweek-forced-to-issue-major-retraction-after-it-smears-amy-coney-barrett-claims-she-belongs-to-sect-that-inspired-the-handmaids-tale/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handmaid</a>&#8221; within her organization and arguing that because she had some kind of leadership role in that community, that was &#8220;a little different from being a Catholic&#8221; in her mind.

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'The View' Host Demands Justice Barrett Recuse Herself, Suggests She Could Do Better

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&#8220;The View&#8221; cohosts admitted they couldn&#8217;t even show the Balenciaga &#8220;fetish themed&#8221; ad on their show Monday during a discussion about the fashion house&#8217;s marketing campaign featuring children holding teddy bears that were wearing bondage gear.
During a panel discussion on the <a href="https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1597292992473309186?s=20&amp;t=dFXgU6DPA8O_zYzIHnRyPg">ABC daytime talk show,</a> Joy Behar talked about how the the fashion company &#8220;is under fire&#8221; for its BDSM-themed ad sexualizing children as her cohosts called them &#8220;distasteful.&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/balenciaga-apologizes-for-advertisement-showcasing-minors-holding-bdsm-teddy-bear-purses">Balenciaga</a> has apologized and has blamed the production company, which they are <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/balenciaga-suing-production-company-25-155314719.html">suing</a>, for the ad.
&#8220;I found this ad campaign particularly distasteful in this moment,&#8221; Alyssa Farah Griffin explained.
&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-view-host-claims-jesus-would-be-the-grand-marshal-at-the-pride-parade">Sunny Hostin</a> replied. &#8220;I mean, we can&#8217;t even show the picture because it&#8217;s so distasteful. But what&#8217;s also very distasteful is Balenciaga lately, I mean, their stuff is just ugly. I mean the bag that that little girl is holding is ugly. Do you remember when Kim [Kardashian] was dressed in Balenciaga for the Met Gala.&#8221;
The clip then went to a snap of the reality star covered head to toe in a black outfit, and Hostin remarked that Kardashian &#8220;looked like a bat.&#8221;
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BALENCIAGA PULLS AD CAMPAIGN AFTER BACKLASH: The luxury brand has issued an apology for its recent advertisements featuring children with sexualized teddy bears – <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheView?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheView</a> co-hosts react to the controversial ads and Kim Kardashian’s response. <a href="https://t.co/Lf4LGBCI2E">https://t.co/Lf4LGBCI2E</a> <a href="https://t.co/j7QUbiYu3Q">pic.twitter.com/j7QUbiYu3Q</a>
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&#8220;So they are, I don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re doing,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if their intent is to be subversive and draw attention to the issues. Or are they just making ugly things.&#8221;
Ana Navarro asked how Balenciaga could now &#8220;sue somebody when they designed a bag for their holiday season.&#8221;
&#8220;The bag is shaped like a teddy bear wearing bondage gear,&#8221; Navarro added. &#8220;Now, it takes hundreds of people in a fashion house like Balenciaga to approve a design. To approve an ad campaign. So, I&#8217;m sorry you guys, I know you&#8217;re trying to cover your a**, but you got bigger problems then&#8230; you got to look inside your house, because you&#8217;ve got people who are not doing their job well. Who have no damn common sense.&#8221;
At one point, the cohosts talked about how Kardashian has since spoken out about the ad and said it might be time to re-evaluate her relationship with the fashion house, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kim-kardashian-slammed-for-statement-over-balenciaga-scandal-there-is-no-grey-area-here">reported</a>.
&#8220;As a mother of four, I have been shaken by the disturbing images,&#8221; Kardashian shared previously.  &#8220;The safety of children must be held with the highest regard and any attempts to normalize child abuse of any kind should have no place in our society — period.&#8221;
&#8220;I appreciate Balenciaga&#8217;s removal of the campaigns and apology,&#8221; she added. &#8220;In speaking with them, I believe they understand the seriousness of the issue and will take the necessary measures for this to never happen again. As for my future with Balenciaga, I am currently re-evaluating my relationship with the brand, basing it off their willingness to accept accountability for something that should have never happened to begin with — &amp; the actions I am expecting to see them take to protect children.&#8221;
The fashion house apologized and is taking legal action against its production company, Hostin noted.  She then shared that the set designer released a statement saying &#8220;everyone&#8221; at Balenciaga was on the shoot&#8221; and &#8220;worked on the edit of every image.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/outrage-ensues-over-balenciaga-using-young-children-to-advertise-alleged-bondage-teddy-bear-purses">Outrage Ensues Over Balenciaga Using Young Children To Advertise Bondage Teddy Bear Purses</a>

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'The View’ Hosts Admit They Can't Even Show Balenciaga ‘Fetish Themed’ Ad With Children

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