“The View” is ending Season 29 with an uncertain future, with <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/06/23/mrc-leads-charge-strip-view-bona-fide-news-status">the FCC breathing down their necks</a> as their “bona fide news program” status was being scrutinized and ABC News reportedly <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/07/22/feeling-pressure-view-reportedly-slashing-budgets-denying">denying raises and slashing budgets</a> as advertisers looked elsewhere. Amid all of this, the liberal ladies stayed on message and cranked up the crazy in the closing week of the season with a torrent of lies crafted to scare their audience and drive them to the polls in utter terror in November.
Arguably one of the most outlandish things anyone on “The View” has ever uttered came from Joy Behar on Thursday. She was shouting about how we needed to “follow the money.” Supposedly, President Trump was being paid by Saudi Arabia to allow them to get nukes so they could drop one on Cleveland, Ohio.
It was truly wild stuff:
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Now, he&#8217;s making a deal with the Saudi Arabians that will allow them to produce a nuclear weapon. (&#8230;) The Saudis were behind 9/11 and — and — and — Are they [Congressional Republicans] waiting for him to drop a nuke on Cleveland?! What are they waiting for to do something?! Now I&#8217;m scared (&#8230;) And now we have a guy enabling that rogue nation, because — by the way, they&#8217;re going to give tens of billions of dollars. That&#8217;s what is behind this. Follow the money with this guy!
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No. The agreement with the Saudis was not to give them nukes or allow them to construct nukes. The agreement was for <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-saudi-arabia-nuclear-program-uranium-15fdb262bb9c83d0d959ca96b7561c12">enriching uranium for nuclear energy</a>. And claiming Trump was selling out America so another country could nuke us was downright dangerous and incendiary rhetoric that could spur another liberal nutcase to violence.
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ABC News&#8217;s Joy Behar claims Trump is going nuke Cleveland, Ohio and whines only then Republicans in Congress would act against him. She also claims Trump is selling nuclear bombs to terrorists and pocketing the money:
JOY BEHAR: The thing that I really can&#8217;t stand about him… <a href="https://t.co/G2UUR3ikrd">pic.twitter.com/G2UUR3ikrd</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2080315141288046700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Also, why Cleveland? Do the Saudis or Trump have a particular hatred for the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame? Maybe they&#8217;re still upset over the end of “The Drew Carey Show.”
“The View” also repeated the refrain they’ve been singing all year, that Trump was planning to steal the 2026 midterm elections.
“The question is: do you think he&#8217;s laying the groundwork to contest the election? Hell, yeah,” Whoopi Goldberg exclaimed. Behar added: “That speech was not about 2020. That speech was about 2026 and he is petrified that the Democrats are going to take over.”
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ABC News engages in more stochastic terrorism. 
The View suggest Trump is going to steal the 2026 midterms. <a href="https://t.co/LhsS5jWuzU">pic.twitter.com/LhsS5jWuzU</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2079584709676249228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Additionally, Behar’s brain apparently deleted every <a href="https://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2012/12/01/new-joy-behar">comment she</a> and <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2022/09/07/doing-her-part-view-defends-2016-election-denial-jean-pierre">her co-hosts</a> had made <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/06/08/cant-believe-sunny-hostin-justifies-skepticism-trump-2024">doubting</a> every Republican presidential victory since 2000, including 2024. According to her, no one had ever questioned the validity of an American election before Trump:
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BEHAR: You know, for the 10,000 years that I&#8217;ve been on this planet, this has never come up before! Have any &#8211; Does anyone remember?!
HOSTIN: Well, there&#8217;s no real evidence of election fraud. It&#8217;s like 0.0003 percent of election fraud. So, it just doesn’t exist. It&#8217;s a non-issue.
BEHAR: Basically.
HOSTIN: And you’re right, it&#8217;s not something that has ever come up before.
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Behar has also claimed <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2023/04/06/view-power-hungry-gop-only-win-elections-cheating">every Republican electoral victory</a> is suspect.
Finally, on Friday’s show, Hostin (<a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2080677999733596489?s=20">who thought only 5 states required I.D</a>.) equated requiring I.D. to vote to having black people &#8220;count jelly beans in a jar&#8221; and &#8220;having to answer citizenship questions.&#8221; &#8220;I believe that in my soul,&#8221; she proclaimed.
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The View falsely claims the SAVE Act is about keeping everyone from voting and downplay the 400 illegal votes in New Jersey as not a big deal:
SARA HAINES: But 90 percent of U.S. citizens have some form of I.D. Whereas, only about half of Americans have passports so this… <a href="https://t.co/jb4LDGNOUC">pic.twitter.com/jb4LDGNOUC</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2080675182130196885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2026</a></blockquote>
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“The View” ended the season by reinforcing the argument that they are not a “bona fide news program,” and possibly making the FCC’s decision even easier to make.
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Nicholas C. Fondacaro is the associate editor for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters.

ABC’s “The View” – Season 25

‘The View’ Closes Season 29 With A Torrent Of Lies To Scare Their Audience

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Sunny Hostin, the co-host of ABC’s “The View,” is facing backlash for appearing to use her position as a celebrity and former federal prosecutor to try to save her son from a police charge.
Hostin&#8217;s son, 24-year-old Gabriel Hostin, was briefly arrested June 16 in New Rochelle — a city about 17 miles from New York City. Officers spotted Gabriel “on the right-of-way of the active railroad tracks, in violation of the posted no trespassing signs,” according to court records <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/17/us-news/sunny-hostin-was-on-phone-with-son-when-he-was-caught-trespassing-on-metro-north-tracks/">obtained</a> by the New York Post. 
Immediately after being handcuffed, Gabriel asked if he could call his mother and have the police talk to her. The police agreed.
Bodycam footage received by the New York Post shows Sunny using her position as a former federal prosecutor and her son’s background as a Harvard graduate and elementary teacher to try to get the charge dropped.
When Sunny got on the phone, one police officer explained the nature of the incident.
“Besides being illegal, it’s actually very dangerous for him to be around the railroad tracks. We get people who get hit all the time,” one police officer, identified as Officer Gomez, stated.
“That’s my son. He’s a Harvard graduate. He’s not a criminal. He has no criminal record, no criminal history,&#8221; Sunny replied over the phone.
The officer replied that police had changed the charge from the usual criminal misdemeanor to a violation. “There’s nothing on his record, and he’s been very cooperative with us. But as of right now, we will have to issue him an appearance ticket,” Gomez said.
“Officer, is that really necessary? This is a kid who doesn’t do anything. He’s a Harvard graduate and a Yale researcher,” Hostin replied. “He teaches geometry to 4th graders in the Bronx. Why would you put something on his record like this?”
“It’s not anything criminal. He just has to appear. That’s all it is. It’s not a misdemeanor,” Gomez said. “He would have to appear, which is an inconvenience, but with all due respect, man, I still have a job to do, and we have to deter people from being on the tracks.”
Sunny arrived at the scene and asked for the violation to be reduced to a warning, to which Gomez said, “I cannot at this point.”
The officer <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/140.05">issued</a> Gabriel Hostin a 140.05, which constitutes a trespass violation. In New York <a href="https://www.nycourts.gov/help/criminal/types-criminal-cases">courts</a>, violations are for “non-criminal offenses [that] can still be punishable by arrest, fines and/or jail time.” However, violations do not create a criminal record and can remain off most applications. 
Gabriel claimed the gate was open to the railroad and his trespassing was “an innocent mistake.”
&#8220;The View&#8221; host has decided to represent her son in his case to try to clear him of the violation.
“The circumstances of this case do not reflect the type of conduct the New York Penal Law § 140.05 was intended to address,” Hostin stated in a letter to Assistant District Attorney Amanda Greene, <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/07/17/sunny-hostin-and-son-gabriel-on-body-cam-footage/">obtained</a> by TMZ.
She continued in the letter, stating that Gabriel was a Harvard graduate and a former Junior Olympian track athlete who was training when he “observed what appeared to be a gravel incline that could be used for his training.” Her letter alleges that the “No Trespassing” sign was on the left gate and thus not visible since the gates were open.
In response to Sunny’s claim, the Metro-North Railroad police released a photo showing the “No Trespassing” sign was visible on a pole near the open gates.
&#8220;The View&#8221; host has yet to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunnychostin/">discuss</a> the situation on social media or broach the subject on her show.

‘The View’ Host Uses Her Privilege After Son Is Arrested

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Many New England homes used to be equipped with the bizarre and highly inconvenient “<a href="https://www.thespruce.com/witches-stairs-7092700">Witches’ Stairs,</a>” a staggered staircase design said to prevent witches from ascending. But what if I told you there was a more efficient way to keep a witch out of your home or, better yet, your neighborhood? According to The View’s Sunny Hostin, an American flag is enough to make her feel “unsafe.”
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Hostin says that any community with American flags is automatically racist: 
&#8220;&#8230;when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there&#8217;s a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate… <a href="https://t.co/SMnicvTrCd">pic.twitter.com/SMnicvTrCd</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2074162504293355768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Fresh back from the hosts’ Fourth of July vacation, <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/07/06/view-white-supremacists-train-defining-image-modern-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/07/06/view-white-supremacists-train-defining-image-modern-america&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1783557655198000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0zkX8ghGomq1XYOla9EJdb">Hostin flaunted her craziness</a>, claiming the American flag was a symbol of “white supremacy,” and that she was terrified of neighborhoods with too many. She even admitted that this was a long-held belief:
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And I said this on this show many, many years ago. Because this is my tenth year on the show and I said there are times; when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe, because there&#8217;s a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy.
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Meanwhile, the new sexual assault allegations against Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/07/07/sunny-hostin-doubles-down-support-platner-despite-sexual">weren’t enough to scare her away</a> from fully supporting him.
Hostin clearly has some deep-seated issues about certain neighborhoods and the certain people who live in them, including her own.
Last year, she <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/10/23/sunny-hostin-fears-her-all-white-neighborhood-will-call-cops">shared her concern</a> that everyone in the “all-white neighborhood” into which she had just moved was secretly racist, and that they were going to call the police to harass her son on his jogs.
“I have had to be in the position where I&#8217;ve gone to my local police department because I know my son is going to be training for the Junior Olympics, running around the neighborhood, in an all-white neighborhood, and I have brought him to the police and said he belongs to me, this is my son. Do not harass him, do not stop him,” she recounted.
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Sunny Hostin apparently thinks all her white neighbors are racists. She says she fears them calling the police on on her son if they see him training for the Junior Olympics: 
&#8220;As a mother of black children, I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence&#8230;I… <a href="https://t.co/3Q1sfc1c5c">pic.twitter.com/3Q1sfc1c5c</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1981021550527529155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hostin suggested her fear stemmed from her being “a mother of black children.” “I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence and the presumption of youth,” she added.
Hostin’s brazen anti-Americanism apparently is supported by ABC News and Disney.
Earlier this year, she admitted that she was &#8220;embarrassed” to be an American and called America a “<a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/06/05/sunny-hostin-embarrassed-america-calls-it-failed-experiment">failed experiment</a>.”
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Sunny Hostin, who once said she was more comfortable in Ghana than America, says she&#8217;s &#8220;embarrassed&#8221; by the country as America nears 250 and calls it a &#8220;failed experiment&#8221; in self governance:
SUNNY HOSTIN: And so I think we have a very complicated history here. I think it&#8217;s a… <a href="https://t.co/gILwK0E8y8">pic.twitter.com/gILwK0E8y8</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2062918071061230060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
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But where did Hostin learn to hate America this much? According to her, she learned from her father, and she’s been fairly open about it.
In reacting to a SCOTUS ruling against Affirmative Action in 2023, <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2074616889523794213?s=20">Hostin shared</a> the corrupting “wisdom” her father taught her: “It&#8217;s been harder for us, and I&#8217;m sorry, people may not agree with that. My father always told me you have to work twice as hard to get half as far in this country and that remains true.”
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If you want to see where The View&#8217;s Sunny Hostin got her hatred of America, here she is on June 29, 2023 talking about affirmative action and explaining how her father taught her to hate:
&#8220;It&#8217;s been harder for us, and I&#8217;m sorry, people may not agree with that. My father always… <a href="https://t.co/QAPHUVC1Ke">pic.twitter.com/QAPHUVC1Ke</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2074616889523794213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Now that we’re past the Fourth of July and the Halloween season is upon us (according to my local grocery store&#8217;s candy aisle), be sure to hang up an American flag to keep the spooky kook away.
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Nicholas C. Fondacaro is the associate editor for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters.

Netflix’s “The Rip” New York Premiere

Witches’ Bane: Put Up An American Flag To Keep Sunny Hostin Away

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&#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Sunny Hostin returned to a well-worn theme on Monday: the sight of the Stars and Stripes fills her with dread.
Discussing the viral image of masked Patriot Front marchers riding a Washington Metro train alongside a black woman who sat expressionless nearby, Hostin used the moment to revive her years-old claim that Old Glory has effectively become a white supremacist emblem in parts of the country.
Hostin told viewers, “There are times when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there is a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate being an American, or an American flag, with white supremacy.”
She made sure to note this wasn&#8217;t a new position — she&#8217;s held it for roughly a decade on the show.
Naturally, the internet had questions, chief among them: doesn&#8217;t Hostin herself live in one of the whitest, wealthiest zip codes in America? Commentators were quick to point out that her Purchase, New York neighborhood boasts an average income around $800,000 and a population that&#8217;s overwhelmingly white — the kind of demographic makeup that, by her own logic, might warrant suspicion.
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Sunny Hostin lives in Purchase, NY, one of the wealthiest ZIP codes (10577) in the United States of America.
The AVERAGE income in Purchase NY is $800,000/year.
That&#39;s the AVERAGE.
It&#39;s also, coincidentally, 80-85% White people&#8230;
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This isn&#8217;t Hostin&#8217;s first rodeo with flag-based fearmongering. Back in 2021, she made similar remarks defending an MSNBC analyst who had called American and Trump flags in Long Island &#8220;disturbing.&#8221;
“When someone of color, a black woman, is telling you her feelings, people need to listen and not, you know, repudiate it and not say, ‘Well, that can’t be true,&#8217;” Hostin said at the time. “When I drive into a neighborhood, and it’s not July 4th, and I’m not in a predominantly military household neighborhood and there are flags, American flags, everywhere, alongside Trump flags, alongside flags with stars in a circle, I feel threatened.”
“Because the message is very clear,” she had added. “It’s a message of white supremacy. It’s a message of racism, and it’s a message of their country, not my country. I don’t understand why that would receive backlash. People need to listen when I am saying this is how I feel. This is my experience in this country.”
Co-host Michelle Buteau piled on, questioning what, exactly, the nation has to celebrate at 250 years and arguing that the viral Metro photo validated the experiences minorities face in their daily lives.
Flag anxiety is just the latest entry in Hostin&#8217;s catalogue of grievances. She&#8217;s previously argued that Trump&#8217;s 2025 inauguration on Martin Luther King Day was hypocritical, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/violence-is-justified-sunny-hostin-excuses-ceo-killer-says-this-country-was-built-on-violence">called</a> the assassination of a healthcare CEO a normal byproduct of a nation &#8220;built on violence,&#8221; and — despite learning her own ancestors owned slaves — <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1881741976405516415">maintained</a> she&#8217;s still owed reparations.
In Hostin&#8217;s America, a flag flying on a porch is a five-alarm threat.

The View’s Sunny Hostin Says American Flags Make Her Feel ‘Unsafe’

Here We Go Again: Sunny Hostin Says American Flags Make Her Feel 'Unsafe'

Co-host Sunny Hostin came in hot this week, proclaiming on Monday that Americans had good reason to doubt the results of the 2024 presidential election. Did she provide any evidence? Of course, not. It was just another example of ABC’s “bona fide news program” poisoning America’s body politic with misinformation and lies.
Spurred on by President Donald Trump’s Meet the Press interview, where he clashed with moderator Kristen Welker over California’s election system, co-host Sara Haines falsely suggested that election denialism only occurred since Trump first came into office. Cue the clips of Democrats from 2000.
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Sunny Hostin, who claimed for years Trump stole the 2016 election, says people are right to think Trump stole the 2024 presidential election and gets a roaring applause from the audience:
SARA HAINES: But if you&#8217;re really reflecting on yourself, this problem has been about a… <a href="https://t.co/HTPZ6ttaKV">pic.twitter.com/HTPZ6ttaKV</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2064013794955735197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Haines clutched her pearls about how it was supposedly only a Republican conspiracy, but had since grown popular with Democrats. Hostin interjected to <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/06/08/cant-believe-sunny-hostin-justifies-skepticism-trump-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/06/08/cant-believe-sunny-hostin-justifies-skepticism-trump-2024&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781367427704000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2yIcuaMtVDdkC1EdVqwPol">give credence</a> to their reasoning, since it made no sense to them that Trump won:
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HAINES: It&#8217;s mainstream with the Republicans, but Alyssa, I&#8217;ll take it one step further, Democrats now are questioning the elections. They went from having an 89 percent pre-2024 belief in the system to 64 percent trust in the system.
HOSTIN: And people can&#8217;t believe Trump won!
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It really shouldn’t be a surprise to Haines that so many Democrats think that way because The View had actively added fuel to that fire.
In 2025, there were not <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/05/01/abc-news-host-suggests-trump-rigged-2024-presidential" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/05/01/abc-news-host-suggests-trump-rigged-2024-presidential&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781367427704000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3xkMKOWJ3p_cDXzXDqULJW">one</a> but <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/07/07/god-knows-what-else-he-may-have-done-abc-suggests-musk-stole" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/07/07/god-knows-what-else-he-may-have-done-abc-suggests-musk-stole&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781367427704000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3qErWMxjbAgf-fjXyXxNaG">three</a> different instances of The View suggesting that Trump stole the 2024 presidential election. When Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk was on the rocks, Hostin teamed up with Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar to suggest the billionaire <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/06/04/abc-news-musk-killed-300000-kids-knows-how-trump-stole" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/06/04/abc-news-musk-killed-300000-kids-knows-how-trump-stole&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781367427704000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2dOGTCRRAglUs-TIklJq_e">knew how Trump stole the election</a>, and the president was scared of him.
Hostin was also one of the peddlers of the Russia Collusion Hoax after the 2016 election and would call Trump an illegitimate president, as Hillary Clinton did. She wouldn’t <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2022/09/07/doing-her-part-view-defends-2016-election-denial-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2022/09/07/doing-her-part-view-defends-2016-election-denial-jean-pierre&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781367427704000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2aYtWUBVXMSJ-c9efb4Fs3">renounce</a> that belief until 2022.
Throughout 2026, The View has <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/05/06/view-seemingly-hint-political-violence-claim-gop-steal">repeatedly</a> suggested that Trump will <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/02/03/whoopi-do-something-about-trump-he-can-steal-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/02/03/whoopi-do-something-about-trump-he-can-steal-election&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781367427704000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1q1_IoaVo17TPiMbZ1Itg9">steal</a> the 2026 midterm elections. Hostin had even <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/01/30/abc-good-pretti-deaths-part-plot-steal-2026-elections-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/01/30/abc-good-pretti-deaths-part-plot-steal-2026-elections-and&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1781367427704000&amp;usg=AOvVaw09wr6MZr6mIqtEmJOq4u6s">suggested</a> that the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota were part of the plot.
“I actually think that this is a coordinated effort to steal the 2026 election,” Hostin said. “Remember what happened in Minnesota with Pretti and Good. Pam Bondi sent a letter to the governor of Minnesota and said that they would withdraw ICE agents if they provided all of their voter data.”
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ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin claims there is a &#8220;coordinated effort to steal the 2026 election&#8221; for Trump, claims that the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are a part of it, and claims the federal government are trying to steal social security numbers to steal the election. <a href="https://t.co/AWSQPtYE6a">pic.twitter.com/AWSQPtYE6a</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2017269694869213659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2026</a></blockquote>
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2016, 2024, 2026: Ten Years Of The View’s Election Denial

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&#8220;The View&#8221; co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin blew a gasket on Tuesday&#8217;s show, reacting to President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-and-mark-cubans-white-house-moment-takes-unexpected-turn?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+And+Mark+Cuban’s+White+House+Moment+Takes+Unexpected+Turn">reducing the cost</a> of hundreds of prescription drugs for Americans.
Behar and Hostin railed about drugs being added to the federal government&#8217;s direct-to-consumer drug site, called TrumpRx, which now boasts more than 600 drugs. The pair claimed that Trump had bad intentions, thereby discounting the achievement.
&#8220;First of all, you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas,&#8221; Behar said. &#8220;Once Trump puts his name on prescriptions, we’re all going to die, okay? He put his name on the Trump Shuttle, the Trump Vodka, Trump University, the Trump Hotel, and my favorite, the casinos that all went bankrupt.&#8221;
Hostin said she was in complete agreement with Behar. She called Trump a &#8220;failed businessman&#8221; and bizarrely excoriated the president for saying he wanted to make Americans &#8220;wealthy.&#8221; Trump &#8220;didn&#8217;t say &#8216;healthy,'&#8221; Hostin reasoned.
&#8220;This is not a well-intentioned person,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;He is not doing this out of the goodness of his heart!&#8221;
The peculiar take landed the pair at odds with some of their fellow leftist hosts. Sara Haines, for example, praised the price drop for Americans, even if she dislikes Trump.
“This helps people,&#8221; she said. &#8220;People who are literally suffering from illness and cannot pay for their medicine.”
In return, Hostin called her &#8220;so naive.&#8221;
Alyssa Farah Griffin also pushed back on the naysayers. &#8220;A medication I had to take for IVF is a tenth of the price on TrumpRx,&#8221; she explained.
&#8220;Whatever, it’s tacky that his name is on it,&#8221; Farah Griffin continued. &#8220;The average family, one third of Americans cut back on essential foods and utilities to be able to cover their prescription drug costs.&#8221;
&#8220;You’re not going to convince me that, just because Trump is involved, we should be like, ‘Screw it, don’t bring down prescription drugs,'&#8221; she added.
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🔥 MELTDOWN! The View’s Sara Haines FIRES BACK at co-hosts in FIERY shouting match over TrumpRx: “This helps people.. people who are literally suffering from illness and cannot pay for their medicine.”
Sunny Hostin seized on how Trump had quipped in footage of the event that he… <a href="https://t.co/RDULflCQkx">pic.twitter.com/RDULflCQkx</a>
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) <a href="https://twitter.com/TVNewsNow/status/2056820749793673218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2026</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-and-mark-cubans-white-house-moment-takes-unexpected-turn?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+And+Mark+Cuban’s+White+House+Moment+Takes+Unexpected+Turn">Trump And Mark Cuban’s White House Moment Takes Unexpected Turn</a>

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A recent YouGov poll found that 47% of Americans <a href="https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54403-what-americans-think-about-overpopulation-birth-rates-and-children">view overpopulation</a> in the United States as a “very or somewhat serious problem,” while only 41% say the same about low birth rates.
The consequences of such inverted priorities are already catastrophic. America’s total fertility rate has collapsed to roughly 1.6 children per woman — far below the 2.1 replacement level needed to sustain a population without immigration.
But don’t share those statistics with Sunny Hostin over at “The View.”
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“It’s really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children,” said Hostin. “&#8230;when you now know, in this country, there is this affordability crisis and for a two-person household — a married household — you need over $400,000 for childcare.”
Now, you may think planning an armored car heist à la Michael Mann’s 1995 classic “Heat,” is reckless, but according to Hostin, I need <a href="https://alltherightmovies.com/feature/25-interesting-facts-about-heat/">$1.6 million</a> to take care of my eight children. Anything less and they <a href="https://x.com/theblaze/status/2038665904431497635">would be</a> impoverished, uneducated, homeless, and starving.
A taken-aback Ana Navarro then blurted out, “over the lifetime of a child, or what? A year?”
“No, a year,” Hostin said.
Hostin’s fearmongering would be laughable if it weren’t so effective. In April, the CDC announced that America reached a <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr043.pdf">record low</a> in births in 2025, down 1% since 2024 and 23% since 2007. With an estimated population of 342 million, the United States witnessed <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr043.pdf">3,606,400</a> births last year. In 1966, however, America saw a similar number, <a href="https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1967/demographics/P25-368.pdf">3,661,000</a> births, drawn from a population of less than 200 million.
Hostin was born in October 1968, six months after Stanford professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-of-the-most-evil-men-in-history-just-died">Paul Ehrlich</a> published his landmark book, “The Population Bomb.” When every single one of Ehrlich’s predictions — from mass starvation in the 1970s to global mineral shortages in the 1980s — turned out wrong, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1990.
Only 10% of Americans held a favorable opinion of Ehrlich at the time of his death, according to <a href="https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54403-what-americans-think-about-overpopulation-birth-rates-and-children">YouGov</a> — not too shabby given that only 20% of respondents knew who he was. And yet a full 100% of us have been living in his world — or at least his narrative — ever since he sounded the false alarm that human beings are a form of pollution.
The MacArthur Foundation tipped its cap to Ehrlich’s checkerspot butterfly expertise, but anyone can study the “behavior of an invertebrate population”. His true genius lay in marketing to other spineless populations. 
“A pioneer in alerting the public to the problems of overpopulation,” the award <a href="https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1990/paul-r-ehrlich">citation</a> says. 
Paul Ehrlich may have been perennially wrong as a scientist, but he had a generational talent for scaring the wits out of dimwitted media personalities, craven politicians, cunning public health authorities, unimaginative screenwriters, and over-imaginative teachers. Exactly the type of marks a good con artist would need to capture if he were going to advance a narrative at war with reality. 
It worked.
On the same episode of “The View,” Sara Haines said, “The world has over 8 billion people. We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies. We have arrived.&#8221;
Socially, the fallout is devastating. Smaller families mean fewer siblings, weaker extended kinship networks, and the erosion of the “social capital” that once bound communities together. Low fertility <a href="https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/635c69dc-6a5a-467b-b7b0-3ab906fb4a94/the-consequences-of-declining-fertility-for-social-capital.pdf">reduces</a> community participation, trust, and mutual support — the very glue of civil society. 
Militarily, the danger is existential. Fewer young Americans mean a smaller pool of potential recruits at the exact moment great-power competition intensifies. The Pentagon already struggles with recruitment shortfalls; an aging, childless society cannot field the force required to deter adversaries like China. 
Economically, the math is brutal. A shrinking native-born workforce cannot support the entitlement programs built for a growing population. Social Security and Medicare face insolvency as the ratio of workers to retirees plummets. Every country that has experienced persistent sub-replacement fertility has seen its GDP growth slow, innovation shrivel, and burden younger generations with crushing tax loads to fund the vacations of the old.
The problem with effective propaganda campaigns is that they are hard to reverse. South Korea serves as a warning. In 1960, the average South Korean woman had six children. After decades of state-backed “family planning” and “voluntary” sterilization services lovingly provided by USAID, fertility fell below replacement and eventually below 1. The Clinton State Department <a href="https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/olj/gli/gli_sep1998.pdf">lauded</a> South Korean population control as one of America’s standout achievements.
No 20th-century public intellectual better apprehended how misanthropic an elite could be. Gilded Age robber barons were at least honest about their rapacious need for more; the postwar meritocrats of the 1960s thought themselves too enlightened for greed but enjoyed all that money just the same. Then, along came a Stanford butterfly researcher, insisting that your neighbors’ kids are hurting the environment, and if only you kept more resources for yourself, nature would heal.
A growing cohort of Americans, particularly young Americans, is waking up to the fact that Paul Ehrlich was wrong all along. And Sunny Hostin’s fearmongering, not the science, has always been the point. Gallup found that 43% of Americans aged 18-29 now say the ideal family will have more than 3 children — a <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/694640/americans-ideal-family-size-remains-above-two-children.aspx">13% jump</a> from the same cohort in 2011.
I remember the halcyon days of 2011 well. I welcomed my second daughter that year. Back then, the majority of my peers told pollsters that “Two is too many!” As Millennials settle into middle age, that number has plummeted by more than 20%. 
We are older and wise enough to know to turn the channel when “The View” comes on. Besides, chances are Michael Mann’s “Heat” is playing on some random cable channel at the very same time.
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Terry Schilling is president of the American Principles Project.

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Parents need to earn $400,000 each year to afford children, according to “The View” panelist Sunny Hostin. Her absurd <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=953345053913270">claim</a> made headlines last week because it’s ridiculous, but the practice of overinflating these numbers is nothing new. For years we’ve been inundated with claims about how much it really costs to raise kids. Some research says from birth to age 18, on average, parents will spend upwards of $250,000 taking their newborn into adulthood.
So how much is it, really? And more importantly: Is it worth it?
Hostin, who has two children, was reacting to Daily Wire host Isabel Brown making what should not have been a radical statement. Brown <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-told-gen-z-to-get-married-and-have-kids-the-view-lost-its-mind">said</a>, “If you’re not encouraging your children to grow up … get married and have kids — more kids than they can afford, before they think they’re ready, it is high time to start.”
This statement couldn’t be more important at a time when over half of the world’s countries now have fertility rates below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. It’s a problem that hits close to home. By 2030, nearly 45% of American women aged 25-44 are projected to be single and childless.
The media keep pushing stories about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-viral-i-regret-my-kids-trend-is-getting-one-big-thing-wrong">regretful parents</a>, happy singles, and how “irresponsible” it is to have kids. They say it’s too expensive. But those of us with lots of kids, and way less money than Sunny Hostin, are here to say, no, it’s not.
As a regular middle class mom of five surrounded by other middle class friends and family in a very typical suburban town, I can tell you that most people I know don’t have a $400,000 income, but they do have kids. Most are homeowners with two cars who take annual vacations and whose children are involved in sports. Some of the wealthier friends have vacation homes, while some of those less well-off or single parents may rent their homes or do staycations instead.
My personal experience almost certainly differs from Hostin’s. However, I think most parents aren’t really spending $250,000 per child. These numbers are totally bogus.
A 2022 <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Brookings_Cost-to-raise-a-child_inflation-adjusted-2.pdf">report</a> from the Brookings Institution declared that a middle-income family with two children will spend approximately $310,605, adjusted for higher future inflation, to raise one child born in 2015 through age 17. A similar <a href="https://www.lendingtree.com/debt-consolidation/raising-a-child-study/">study</a> put out by LendingTree last year had comparable findings, estimating the average annual cost to be $29,419, or a total of $297,674 for 18 years of parenting. None of these estimates includes the cost of college, which is a whole other issue.
The studies all note the difference between raising a child in a high cost of living area, such as Hawaii, and a low cost of living area, such as Mississippi. But they claim these numbers represent the average. As someone living in a mid-range area where a parent could expect to pay somewhere in the mid-range for child-raising, all I can say is, huh?
LendingTree broke down its cost analysis by category, taking into consideration factors including rent, groceries, transportation, health insurance, daycare, and apparel. The chart lays out the “bare-bones cost of raising [a] small child in [the] U.S.” and allots an amount for each category. But there’s one thing it fails to mention, namely that you’d be spending some amount of money on rent, food, and other essentials even if you didn’t have children. Also, parents spend their money differently than non-parents.
These studies assume that parents are spending, let’s say, $1,000 dollars of clothing per year for themselves and then $500 per child. With that rationale, adding two children to the household would increase total apparel expenditures to $2,000, right? But that’s oversimplifying the reality of life. Being a parent is a constant sacrifice of self, a rebalancing of priorities and goals. In practice, moms are more likely to take that whole $1,000 budget and spend 80% of it on their kids and 20% on themselves. Instead of increasing the budget, they will adjust where the money is going. And each child gets cheaper when you can use hand-me-downs.
When I was single and when I was married without kids, my diaper budget was $0. It increased with each child, forcing me to make cuts in other areas. Maybe it meant fewer dinners out or learning that home pedicures are less luxurious but more affordable. Now that my youngest twins are almost 5, our diaper budget is back to $0. Sounds like it’s time to schedule a pedicure.
The point is that families absorb new costs by adjusting others. That’s not to say that children don’t cost anything; my grocery bill would beg to differ. But these estimates are way off. The LendingTree report says “transportation costs” are $4,383 per year, which equals around $365 per month. An adult without children may not be spending her funds on a minivan, but she is just as likely to have a car payment.
The cost of raising kids is really what you make it. 
In a similar way, housing costs can become exorbitant if a family of seven opts to live in a six-bedroom house so everyone can have their own space. But if they’re like most of America, they use the high cost of real estate as another opportunity to humble themselves. My husband and I bought our first home, our three-bedroom, 1,500-square-foot starter home, one year after we married and before we had any children. Sixteen years and five kids later, we are still here in this little house. 
Our children share rooms with bunk beds and cram together on the couch so we can watch movies together. We all share a bathroom and stick to a shower schedule. Our rambling old van is not pretty, but it’s paid off. Our household income is nowhere near $400,000. I am not spending $150,000 per year ($30,000 times five kids) on these lovely little people I’m raising. Sunny Hostin would be flabbergasted.
Compared to a family with two children, the cost per child goes up if you only have one child (by 27%) and goes down per child (by 24%) once you have three or more, according to a Department of Agriculture <a href="https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/blog/cost-raising-child">report</a> in 2017. The report notes that this is because children can share bedrooms, clothing, and family responsibilities (fire the cleaning lady and assign some chores to your older kids!). Older children can babysit the younger ones. It’s interesting that this report hasn’t been updated in almost a decade.
Ultimately, it’s impossible to come up with a single number of what it costs to raise a child. The answer is, it depends. It depends on a family’s goals and values, on whether they buy their Nikes brand new or shop at thrift stores, on whether they’re an Aldi family or Whole Foods shoppers. It depends on whether or not one parent stays home with the kids to cut out the daycare fees. 
There are ways to save and spend at every income level, and children can be naturally absorbed into that by give and take in different areas. Children are not inherently expensive. For centuries people have been having far more kids with far less money and somehow making it work.
Isabel Brown was right. Our message to our children should be to have more kids than seems reasonable, before they feel ready. Not just because the future of humanity depends on it, but also because it’s worth every sacrifice.

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The day after President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2026 State of the Union address, the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; first made it clear that they were not impressed with him, but then reserved some of their sharpest critiques for Democrats like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who &#8220;gave him his moment.&#8221;
Cohost Joy Behar complained that the whole thing had made her &#8220;furious and scared,&#8221; adding that she was &#8220;physically ill from it and more nauseous than usual watching him.&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin whines about Trump using the term &#8216;illegals&#8217; to accurately describe illegals and falsely claims everyone had stopped using it before Trump came along. She also complains that Democrats even attended the address because they looked bad: 
&#8220;That saying that people are… <a href="https://t.co/zqUlybiz1c">pic.twitter.com/zqUlybiz1c</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2026697528079515709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor, began her review by complaining that the president insists upon using the term &#8220;illegal&#8221; when referring to people who have entered the United States illegally.
&#8220;That saying that people are illegal, illegal aliens. That really matters,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We haven&#8217;t used that term for so long. Now it&#8217;s back in vogue. You are not illegal as a human being just because you&#8217;re undocumented, and so that for me, that felt dehumanizing to our immigrant population.&#8221;
Hostin then recalled a conversation from the day before — when Behar argued that Democrats should boycott the speech entirely to avoid giving Trump the appearance of legitimacy — and said that although she&#8217;d disagreed at the time, watching the president speak had changed her mind.
&#8220;Someone like Ilhan Omar, who fiercely is protective of Minnesotans and Somalians in particular, she gave him that moment that he wanted when the Democrats wouldn&#8217;t stand because he was calling people illegal aliens, they didn&#8217;t stand, and he called them crazy. They gave him all these moments,&#8221; Hostin complained. &#8220;They were used as props. It was disgusting.&#8221;

WATCH: The Day After Trump’s SOTU Address, ‘The View’ Hosts Are Mad At Democrats

WATCH: The Day After Trump's SOTU Address, 'The View' Hosts Are Mad At ... Democrats

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Ana Navarro suggested on Monday that President Donald Trump and his administration had effectively cooked the books in their efforts to arrest former CNN host Don Lemon in connection with a protest that disrupted a Minneapolis church service a week earlier.
Navarro and her cohosts on ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; discussed Lemon&#8217;s arrest, and their conversation covered the entire spectrum, from Navarro and Sunny Hostin insisting that the case had no merit and would be dismissed to Whoopi Goldberg wringing her hands and warning that the Trump administration could arrest anyone the president didn&#8217;t like.
Navarro began by claiming that an appellate court&#8217;s refusal to compel a lower court judge to sign off on Lemon&#8217;s arrest warrant amounted to judges laughing the DOJ out of their courtrooms. She did not mention the fact that one of the judges concerned said that he agreed there was probable cause to arrest Lemon.
&#8220;So, they basically did it themselves,&#8221; she asserted. &#8220;Make no mistake about it. This was about gaslighting, this was about going against Don lemon and other journalists. By the way, all of whom happen to be black. Happy Black History Month. And I think it&#8217;s to send a chilling message to anybody who is covering facts.&#8221;
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Despite the grand jury indictment, Sunny Hostin (who&#8217;s friends with Lemon) proclaims &#8220;this case will be thrown out.&#8221; While not going over any of the facts of the case, Hosting declares: &#8220;[H]e was getting the story and nothing should have gotten in the way of that. He had a… <a href="https://t.co/B3uvC56BQR">pic.twitter.com/B3uvC56BQR</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2018362490866860216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Hostin, also ignoring that fact that Lemon was indicted by a federal grand jury, claimed that the former CNN host was only acting as a journalist covering the protest as it unfolded — despite video appearing to show that he was privy to the plans prior to the group storming into the church while parishioners attempted to hold a worship service.
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin also defended Lemon, claiming that he had acted only as a journalist.
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Whoopi seems to suggests what happened with Lemon will happen to everyone on the left: 
&#8220;Listen, what I said to you before, you see what&#8217;s happening, you know what&#8217;s happening. If it&#8217;s happening like this for someone who is out and clearly doing his job, what do you think will… <a href="https://t.co/39028c42wV">pic.twitter.com/39028c42wV</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2018364076322169131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg hit the panic button, however, and fretted about how easy it might be for the Justice Department to arrest anyone if Lemon was fair game.
&#8220;Listen, what I said to you before, you see what&#8217;s happening, you know what&#8217;s happening. If it&#8217;s happening like this for someone who is out and clearly doing his job, what do you think will happen to us?&#8221;
Since the protest just over a week earlier, several disturbing reports have come out detailing the behavior of the protesters — who reportedly harassed and terrified members of the congregation — while inside the church.

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One of the dumbest things we can do is flatten all ideologies and pretend all human beings think the same way.
Every time someone does this, you end up with the worst possible policy.
If you say, for example, all human beings have a yearning in their human heart for freedom in the same exact way, that can very easily lead you to the policies pursued by the George W. Bush administration, in which the president declared that the goal of the United States was to end tyranny on planet Earth.
Of course, that is not a sustainable goal, because it assumes that everyone has the same priorities that you have.
In the same way, when you suggest that all acts of violence are equivalent, when you abstract terrible things happening to the level of the general, when you say, “Okay, there&#8217;s a specific terror act directed at whites or Jews or blacks” — instead of looking at the specific cause that is being pursued, instead of looking at the specific ideological matrix used to justify and foment violence, you simply say “Violence is bad, and all human beings should just know that violence is bad,” you are preventing the actual solutions to those problems.
That’s because if you refuse to face up to the fact that certain ideas are worse than other ideas, certain cultures are worse than other cultures, certain ideological frameworks are worse than other ideological frameworks, you&#8217;re missing the motivating factor in human action.
Instead, what you end up with is a blunderbuss foreign policy that differentially strikes groups in an unfair and stupid way. 
The other day, Sunny Hostin of The View did a signal version of this. She was commenting on the mass shooting in Bondi Beach in Sydney against Jews by two Islamists.
Here is what she had to say:
<blockquote>I used to think that gun violence was just an American phenomenon. And now we see this sort of anti-Semitic attack in Australia on the first day of Hanukkah, which is so disgusting and disturbing. And then, you know, kids going to college at Brown in the middle of finals getting murdered. What those families went through? Why all of this sickness and hatred going around the world? </blockquote>
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The View is a purveyor of hate. Now, after the tragic weekend, they wonder why there&#8217;s so much hate. 
&#8220;Why all of this sickness and hatred going around the world? Not just in this country,&#8221; Sunny Hostin, one of the most hate-fueled people on TV. <a href="https://t.co/ox73cTuPq6">pic.twitter.com/ox73cTuPq6</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2000599580283420709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Why all of this sickness and hatred going around the world?” That’s fine on the level of a two-year-old.
But let&#8217;s be very clear. Different ideological groups commit different types of crimes. Some commit no crimes. Some actually promote peace. Some ideologies promote vast terror attacks, such as radical Islamism.
But when you reduce everything to “It&#8217;s just an act of violence,” or to the tool, such as a gun; when you look at the Brown University shooting, where we still don&#8217;t know the motive, and then you look at what happened in Sydney, Australia, where you absolutely know the motive and you flatten that out and pretend they are both the same, you&#8217;re preventing the implementation of policies that would actually prevent shootings.
That’s because there actually are ways to target radical Islam in, for example, Sydney, Australia: Don&#8217;t import more radical Muslims. Surveil radical mosques. Create a better security apparatus. Have a government that does not grant credibility to radical Islamists and their arguments.
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There are many ways to fight particular ideologies or particular ideas.
But when you flatten that all out to the idea that it&#8217;s all just “gun violence,” you are preventing a solution.
That is often the core of the debate between the Right and the Left, the traditional Right and Left.
I always have to clarify this because there are people who exist on the so-called political Right who are not in any real way conservative; they just don&#8217;t like some of the elements of the Left.
But traditional conservative thinking suggests that human beings are motivated by the ideas and ideologies they carry, and also that human beings are deeply flawed. They&#8217;re not inherently good; human beings have the capacity for greatness and also the capacity for sin.
All of this is embedded in Federalist 51, in which James Madison argues that if human beings were angels, you wouldn&#8217;t need a government in order to govern them because they would be angels.
Once you recognize the reality of human flaws and nature, once you recognize that people change their behavior based on the ideologies that they hold, then it makes it possible to look at the outgrowth of particular ideologies and then fight those ideas.
Otherwise, what you end up with is a very bad and stupid public policy.

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Sunny Hostin spent part of Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; scolding Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) for voting with Republicans to bring the longest government shutdown in history to an end — and he pushed right back.
Hostin&#8217;s cohosts — most of whom have been pushing for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer&#8217;s (D-NY) ouster since he &#8220;caved&#8221; and voted to avert the last potential government shutdown in March — began by pressing Fetterman on whether or not he believed Schumer was still the right person to lead the Senate under the current circumstances.
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Sunny Hostin attacks Fetterman over his vote to end the shutdown and openly says Dems should bring GUNS to confront Republicans:
&#8220;Senator Bernie Sanders said the vote was a horrific mistake. Governor Gavin Newsom called it pathetic and a surrender. Poll after poll found… <a href="https://t.co/nqI0soObtR">pic.twitter.com/nqI0soObtR</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1988283718583075293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Senator Bernie Sanders said the vote was a horrific mistake. Governor Gavin Newsom called it pathetic and a surrender. Poll after poll found Americans on both sides of the aisle blaming Republicans,&#8221; Hostin said. &#8220;Even Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed the GOP. As you mentioned, Democrats had big wins last week, so you had momentum. Why give in now? Why bring a butter knife to a gun fight?!&#8221;
Hostin went on to argue that Fetterman was taking a major risk in trusting Republicans to follow through on promises to hold a vote on the Affordable Care Act subsidies and deliver back pay to furloughed federal workers, saying, &#8220;I believe you are wrong!&#8221;
&#8220;Well, first of all, MTG is quite literally the last person in America that I’m going to take advice [from] or to get their kinds of leadership and values from,&#8221; Fetterman shot back.
He went on to note that he had voted to keep the government open from the start, largely because he knew how a shutdown would impact people in his home state.
&#8220;I promise you, this isn’t a political game. It is viewed [that way] by many of us, but the reality is, 42 million Americans now [are] not sure where their next meal is going to come from because we vote like that. Or people that haven’t been paid for five weeks now and that kinds of chaos. Those kinds of workers have to borrow more than half a billion dollars from their credit union just to pay the bills,&#8221; he said.

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