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.

Day Two Of The 2024 Democratic National Convention

Ana Navarro Says Trump Admin Cooked The Books On Don Lemon Arrest

Ana Navarro

Don Lemon

Donald Trump

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Media

Politics

Sunny Hostin

The View

Whoopi Goldberg

Joy Behar complained on Tuesday that it was time to &#8220;do something&#8221; about President Donald Trump — and she argued that just getting out in the streets to protest and even voting were not cutting it anymore.
Behar claimed that it was time for Trump to go, saying that Americans were just going to have to &#8220;step up&#8221; and make that happen, although she was largely unclear as to how that would work, logistically speaking.
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&#8220;I think this is the end of it now for [President Trump]. It has to be. And Americans need to step up now. It&#8217;s not enough to go into the streets. It&#8217;s not enough to vote,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I believe that people need to start calling their congressmen and their Senators.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, he has eroded civil rights at this point, he&#8217;s erasing history &#8230; he&#8217;s wrecking the economy, it&#8217;ll be decades before we get back to where we&#8217;re supposed to be, and he&#8217;s alienating us from our friends in NATO,&#8221; Behar claimed, as the cohosts voiced their agreement. &#8220;And all because he&#8217;s not getting his award.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, the shrinks call that a narcissistic injury,&#8221; Behar continued. &#8220;And that is what will get us into World War III because his ego is involved. And the only thing that Americans can do, including us, I mean, we have a forum here and we speak out.&#8221;
Behar went on to claim that people loved &#8220;The View&#8221; for exactly that reason — and she called on the audience to call their representatives and say, &#8220;It&#8217;s time to do something about this guy, because he&#8217;s leading us into World War III.&#8221;
Sunny Hostin followed Behar, claiming that Trump was only after Greenland because he wanted the rare earth minerals — and that people should take him seriously when he postured about taking the island nation by force.
Behar interrupted then, claiming that she blamed Congress because she believed the president was not well and held them responsible for failing to do something about it. The 25th Amendment was mentioned, but as Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out, that would have to come from the president&#8217;s own cabinet.

Joy Behar

Joy Behar Says It’s Time To ‘Do Something About Trump,’ Complains Protests And Voting Aren’t Enough

Protests

Whoopi Goldberg immediately backpedaled after claiming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were &#8220;violent criminals,&#8221; saying that she was using &#8220;nuance&#8221; when she made that particular statement.
Goldberg joined her cohosts on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; where they discussed the fatal confrontation between anti-ICE activist Renee Good and the ICE agent who shot and killed her when she accelerated toward him, striking him with her vehicle. Goldberg&#8217;s overall assessment of the situation was that ICE agents were more violent than the people they were apprehending in major cities like Minneapolis.
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After calling all ICE agents &#8220;violent criminals&#8221; before the commercial break, Whoopi comes back and claims that&#8217;s not what she did and whines about people calling her out: 
&#8220;Welcome back. Before we go on, I &#8212; before folks gather around and say, &#8216;oh, she&#8217;s accusing all of the… <a href="https://t.co/eCQK46pPPl">pic.twitter.com/eCQK46pPPl</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2010758904565715399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg began by complaining that the Department of Homeland Security had promised to pick up the worst of the worst and the most “violent criminals” — and reports detailing who ICE agents have arrested since the surge in Minneapolis began indicate they have followed through on that promise.
But Goldberg disagreed with DHS and said that, as far as she was concerned, it appeared that the “violent criminals” were inside ICE.
“This is the thing, you said you were going after the bad guys. That&#8217;s what you said, the violent criminals. And what does it turn out? The violent criminals seem to be in the agency,” she said.
The show cut to a commercial break then, and by the time they returned to air, she was already trying to un-ring the bell.
“Welcome back. Before we go on, I — before folks gather around and say, &#8216;oh, she&#8217;s accusing all of the folks at ICE of being criminals,’ that is not what I&#8217;m doing. And just so I&#8217;m clear, it feels sometimes that there is no one watching the henhouse. Okay? So before y&#8217;all start blowing it into all kinds of other stuff, just know that it&#8217;s nuance speaking,” she said.

Whoopi Claims ICE Agents Are Violent Criminals, Then Scrambles To Backpedal: ‘It’s Nuance Speaking’

Whoopi Claims ICE Agents Are Violent Criminals, Then Scrambles To Backpedal: 'It's Nuance Speaking'

Minneapolis

Jenny McCarthy gave a definitive answer to the question of whether she’d consider returning to her spot on “The View.”
The 53-year-old celebrity was a co-host of the show from 2013 to 2014 during season 17. She discussed that experience, as well as her current feelings about the show, on a Tuesday episode of  “The Katie Miller Podcast.”
&#8220;The reason why they wanted to bring me on [originally] is because they, quote, said it was too polarizing. They thought it was too polarizing back then, you guys,&#8221; McCarthy told the podcast host. She said her inclusion was meant to add “light and fluffy and fun” content to balance out more serious topics.
&#8220;Well, that lasted a week. That lasted a whole week,&#8221; McCarthy continued. &#8220;And back then, I didn&#8217;t consider myself to be a political person, which is why I thought I was perfect for the job. After a week, when they said they wanted to get political, I was like, &#8216;Oh my God, what am I going to do?'&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re like, &#8216;Today we’re going to be discussing the hostage situation and whether the United States government should pay the ransom or not. And I was like, &#8216;What?'&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m like, &#8216;I just know who won Dancing with the Stars.&#8217; So getting through that year was really difficult.&#8221;
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The “Masked Singer” judge said that she is &#8220;much more political in terms of having opinions&#8221; now than she was back then, adding that &#8220;our latest administration has helped so much.&#8221; 
&#8220;But, back then? Ooh, I would not, I would never even,&#8221; McCarthy added. &#8220;They’ve asked me to come back for, like, reunion shows. I was like, over my dead body would I ever step foot in that place.&#8221;
The celeb also said Hollywood gets “everything wrong” about “real America,” pointing to Bill Maher as someone who isn’t afraid to pop the “woke bubble” that Hollywood elites exist inside.
McCarthy, a huge supporter of the MAHA movement, is extremely skeptical of vaccines and supports HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “There are more conservatives than you would know hiding out in Hollywood,” she <a href="https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jenny-mccarthy-hollywood-conservatives-hiding-maha-1236612761/">said</a> in December.

Jenny McCarthy

‘Over My Dead Body’: Jenny McCarthy Says She Will Never Return To ‘The View’

Jenny McCarthy Says She'd Never Return To 'The View': 'Over My Dead Body'

Celebrities

Entertainment

Hollywood

Television

Whoopi Goldberg practically begged a foreign power — any foreign power — to come in and extradite President Donald Trump, complaining on Wednesday that the United States does not &#8220;have a government&#8221; with him in the White House.
Goldberg raised the issue on Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; on ABC, where she and her cohosts were continuing their discussion of the Trump administration&#8217;s weekend actions in Venezuela, including the arrest and extradition of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Cohost Sara Haines suggested that Trump&#8217;s voters were not educated enough to understand &#8220;the chess game of the geopolitics&#8221; and didn&#8217;t actually vote for what was happening — and claimed again that Trump&#8217;s actions were &#8220;illegal.&#8221;
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Whoopi Goldberg claims America doesn&#8217;t have a government and wants NATO to intervene to save America from Trump and &#8220;get him out&#8221;:
&#8220;Where is everybody? Where is everybody else? We come to everybody&#8217;s aid. We help everybody. NATO, they came and helped us after 9/11. Where is… <a href="https://t.co/SR1xmL2lU6">pic.twitter.com/SR1xmL2lU6</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2008938420920316276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg then suggested that because she also agreed Trump&#8217;s actions had been &#8220;illegal,&#8221; maybe it was time for some other foreign power — and she did not specify which — should look at the United States and consider intervening.
&#8220;Let me just say this,&#8221; Goldberg began. &#8220;Here&#8217;s my question: Where is everybody? Where is everybody else? We come to everybody&#8217;s aid. We help everybody. NATO, they came and helped us after 9/11. Where is everybody? Because we&#8217;re all — But where is the government? Do you realize we don&#8217;t have a government?! We don&#8217;t have a — and this is a huge, and should be, our biggest b*tch right now. That should be — because all of this is happening because no one is doing checks and balances.&#8221;
&#8220;Where is the government? Why aren&#8217;t they doing their job?&#8221; Goldberg continued. &#8220;He hinted yesterday that maybe there won&#8217;t be any midterms. He said he was joking &#8230; This is — we&#8217;re in it already &#8230; We really need to be paying attention to who we&#8217;ve given power to.&#8221;

‘Where Is Everybody?’ Whoopi Practically Begs Any Foreign Power To Extradite Trump

'Where Is Everybody?' Whoopi Practically Begs Any Foreign Power To Extradite Trump

NATO

Nicolas Maduro

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) made a direct comparison between President Donald Trump and the recently-extradited Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, saying that both had attempted to seize &#8220;illegitimate&#8221; power, but that Maduro had been &#8220;successful.&#8221;
Crockett made the <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/2008587925471023456">comments</a> during a Tuesday appearance on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; where she claimed that the Trump administration&#8217;s move to arrest and extradite Maduro had been &#8220;illegal&#8221; and claimed the president did not care about what happened to the Venezuelan people.
&#8220;When he went in to get Maduro, he killed even more Venezuelans – this ain&#8217;t about Venezuelans! I get that there are people that don&#8217;t like the leader. But guess what, there are a lot of people that don&#8217;t like our leader! And — and — regardless, somebody coming into the United States and grabbing our leader in the middle of the night and killing people in this country, I&#8217;m sure everybody would be outraged at them doing it that way.&#8221;
&#8220;But nobody stops [Trump],&#8221; Joy Behar complained.
&#8220;I&#8217;m trying, Joy,&#8221; Crockett said.
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Crockett doubles down and says Trump wants to be the Maduro of the United States: 
&#8220;Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6th, I do want to be clear, somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to… <a href="https://t.co/zQHjBICTkg">pic.twitter.com/zQHjBICTkg</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2008588619074658433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I do want to just say this,&#8221; Crockett continued. &#8220;Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6th, I do want to be clear, somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful.&#8221;
Crockett then claimed that Trump&#8217;s support of redistricting in states like Texas — where duly-elected representatives of the people had voted to adopt new maps — was concrete proof that the president &#8220;doesn&#8217;t believe in free and fair elections.&#8221;

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, Texas’ 30th District: An Intimate Brunch

Jasmine Crockett Believes Donald Trump Is America’s Maduro

Jasmine Crockett Thinks Donald Trump Is America's Maduro

Jasmine Crockett

Texas

&#8220;The View&#8221; host Ana Navarro counted herself among the Latinos celebrating Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro&#8217;s arrest and extradition to New York, but refused to give President Donald Trump any credit, arguing that he&#8217;d only done it to soothe his own ego.
Navarro and her cohosts, like many across media outlets, spent much of Monday&#8217;s broadcast discussing the Trump administration&#8217;s precision strikes on Venezuela and the mission to extract Maduro — who was indicted on drug trafficking charges — for trial in the United States.
Sunny Hostin referred to the Trump administration&#8217;s actions as &#8220;100% illegal&#8221; and parroted the dictator himself when she claimed he&#8217;d been &#8220;kidnapped.&#8221;
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Ana Navarro hedges. She says Trump doesn&#8217;t care about the Venezuelan people but did this for his &#8220;ego.&#8221; 
Answering Goldberg on &#8220;who voted for this,&#8221; She notes: &#8220;The people in South Florida, the Venezuelan community, the Cuban-American community, the Nicaraguan-American community… <a href="https://t.co/b0JzHSOvEc">pic.twitter.com/b0JzHSOvEc</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2008212151484174476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Navarro&#8217;s parents brought her to the United States from Nicaragua in 1980, after the socialist Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in 1979. She explained how she and others who had escaped oppressive rule saw Maduro&#8217;s capture differently.
Navarro began by claiming that Trump &#8220;doesn&#8217;t give a damn about the Venezuelan people,&#8221; arguing that he would not be arresting Venezuelans who had come to the United States illegally if he did. She went on to say that she believed he had intervened in Venezuela solely to soothe his own ego.
Despite her questions regarding Trump&#8217;s motivation, she said that Maduro&#8217;s arrest still made her happy. And when cohost Whoopi Goldberg asked who had voted for this to happen, Navarro had the answer.
&#8220;The people in South Florida, the Venezuelan community, the Cuban-American community, the Nicaraguan-American community voted for this,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And for us, this is a very, very happy day when we see a dictator who has been part of oppressing and abusing the Venezuelan people for 25 years, when we see him in handcuffs and held to some sort of accountability, it brought me to tears.&#8221;
&#8220;I think you can criticize and ask questions and have concerns about the way it was done and what this means in the future,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And I think you can still celebrate that this murderous, corrupt, sadistic son of a bitch is out of Venezuela.&#8221;

ANA NAVARRO

‘The View’ Host Is Glad Maduro’s Gone, But Refuses To Give Trump Credit

'The View' Host Is Glad Maduro's Gone, But She Can't Bring Herself To Give Trump Credit

Venezuela

Whoopi Goldberg claimed on Thursday that President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to give monetary bonuses to members of the military was effectively a bribe to ensure that they&#8217;d obey the president&#8217;s orders even if they were not necessarily lawful.
Goldberg, during Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; first questioned whether or not troops would actually ever see that money — and then immediately insinuated that if they did see it, it would be solely because Trump was using it to buy their loyalty.
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Whoopi doubts Trump is going to pay the troops his announced $1,776 bonus, but then claims it&#8217;s a bribe for them to back his plots: 
&#8220;What he&#8217;s doing is, he&#8217;s thinking, &#8216;if I make sure that the soldiers have what they need they&#8217;ll back me and what I want, see?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/DBmKx6IfEN">pic.twitter.com/DBmKx6IfEN</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/2001698071189614604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin began by saying she&#8217;d actually like to give Trump credit for offering bonuses — &#8220;warrior dividends&#8221; — to troops, but Goldberg quickly interrupted.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s see if they get the — I want to see them get it first,&#8221; Goldberg said.
Griffin went on to say that she&#8217;d prefer to see &#8220;smart policies&#8221; rather than &#8220;handouts,&#8221; and argued that it was unfair for money to only go to members of the military — particularly if the money was, as Trump said, coming from tariff revenue — that all Americans were hurting and in need of assistance.
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Goldberg then pivoted to suggest that the reason Trump was singling out members of the armed forces had nothing to do with the notion that they&#8217;d earned it in service to the country, but rather because she believed they&#8217;d be more likely to do anything Trump wanted if he greased the wheels with a Christmas bonus.
&#8220;What he&#8217;s doing is, he&#8217;s thinking, &#8216;If I make sure that the soldiers have what they need, they&#8217;ll back me in what I want, see?'&#8221; she said.

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Whoopi Says Trump Will Use Military Bonus To Buy Loyalty From Service Members

Military

Pete Hegseth

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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The newest episode of Taylor Sheridan’s show “Landman” includes a dig mocking “The View,” which is getting a lot of attention on social media.
During Episode 5 of the second season, which is titled “The Pirate Dinner,” Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) suggests that his father, T.L. (Sam Elliott), should waste time at home by watching a TV show. Tommy suggests “The View” as an option of what to put on.
T.L. responds that he’s not familiar with the program, prompting Tommy to give a brief synopsis.
“A bunch of p****ed-off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires and Trump and men and you and me and everybody else they got a bee up their a** about. It’s pretty funny,” he says.
T.L. responds, “Don’t sound funny.”
“Well, it ain’t joke funny, it’s like ‘fart in church’ funny, you know what I mean?” Tommy answers.
T.L. replies, “That don’t sound funny, either,” to which Tommy quips, “Well, it depends on your proximity to the fart.”
Some commenters noted it was an interesting scene because “Landman” doesn’t usually include references to real-life pop culture. They also pointed out how Thornton was on “The View” in 2024 to promote the series.
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“The world is healing,” one response <a href="https://x.com/Variety/status/2000285952544325992">said</a>.
“Couldn’t have put it better,” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/WilliCaroline/status/2000315650074726541">agreed</a>.
“Think he summed it up pretty well,” <a href="https://x.com/Variety/status/2000285952544325992">echoed</a> a third.
The Paramount Plus show “Landman” follows Tommy, a crisis manager in West Texas, as he navigates the world of the oil and gas industry and the conflicts that arise from it. Sheridan is great at making hit shows, as evidenced in part by the enormously popular “Yellowstone” and subsequent spinoffs.
While plenty of fans attempted to prove “Yellowstone” promoted conservative values, Sheridan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yellowstone-creator-taylor-sheridan-laughs-at-the-idea-of-series-being-a-red-state-show">pushed back</a>, saying that was never his intention.
“They refer to it as ‘the conservative show’ or ‘the Republican show’ or ‘the red-state Game of Thrones,’ ” Sheridan said of “Yellowstone” in 2022.
“And I just sit back laughing. I’m like, ‘Really?’ The show’s talking about the displacement of Native Americans and the way Native American women were treated and about corporate greed and the gentrification of the West, and land-grabbing. That’s a red-state show?”

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Whoopi Goldberg claimed on Monday that if any American service members were charged with &#8220;war crimes&#8221; in relation to drug boat strikes, it would be because War Secretary Pete Hegseth had &#8220;set them up&#8221; to take the fall.
Goldberg and her cohosts on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; insisted that the strikes were illegal and argued that in ordering them, Secretary Hegseth was putting the service members who executed those orders at risk of prosecution.
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The View wants American service members put in prison.
Admitting their speaking about something they&#8217;re totally ignorant about, The View accuses War Secretary Pete Hegseth of a setting up soldiers to be charged for war crimes:
SUNNY HOSTIN: I can&#8217;t speak to the law of it, I&#8217;m… <a href="https://t.co/Ocvbb6Mes2">pic.twitter.com/Ocvbb6Mes2</a>
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&#8220;I can&#8217;t speak to the law of it, I&#8217;m not a geopolitical expert, but in terms of the law of it, you&#8217;re right, Sara, that is why those Army vets explained do not follow — you do not have to follow illegal orders,&#8221; Sunny Hostin said.
&#8220;You know why? Because if this is deemed to have been war crimes, which by all accounts right now there are seven sources that said Pete Hegseth did say &#8216;kill them all,&#8217; even after there were two survivors,&#8221; Hostin continued. &#8220;What you are supposed to do under international law, you are supposed to take those fighters as war criminals, prisoners of war, and you are supposed to give them refuge and you&#8217;re supposed to take care of them and then you are supposed to put them into a court of law. Instead, they killed them.&#8221;
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Hostin went on to say that there could be legal consequences for those who gave the orders and for those who carried them out.
&#8220;That means the person who gave the order can be held accountable and put in prison, and that means the person that conducted — the people who conducted the orders, that pulled the trigger are also responsible and can be held accountable,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So, now you have people that are serving their countries, that are serving this country as patriots, perhaps following an illegal order and then themselves can be court-martialed. Imagine that.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, what he has done is he&#8217;s set them up,&#8221; Goldberg declared. &#8220;He has set them up.&#8221;
Hostin echoed comments made on Sunday by Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mark-kelly-encourages-active-military-to-question-orders-in-real-time">Mark Kelly</a> (D-AZ), who told &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; anchor Kristen Welker that he worried some service members would only learn that they had carried out illegal orders after the fact, when it was too late for them to do anything about it.

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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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&#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>
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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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