Joy Behar predicted on Tuesday that President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles was likely to result another tragedy like the one that played out at Ohio&#8217;s Kent State University in May of 1970.
Behar made the comments during a regular broadcast of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; as she and her cohosts continued to complain about Trump and claim that the violent riots — where federal agents had been targeted and property had been destroyed — were peaceful and &#8220;orderly&#8221; until the National Guard arrived.
Whoopi Goldberg took the lead, claiming that videos of the violence were misleading because some news sources were not showing the peaceful parts of the protests. &#8220;It&#8217;s quite different when you&#8217;re talking to people in L.A.,&#8221; she said, adding that the riots had been &#8220;peaceful for days.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no crisis in Los Angeles that ICE did not cause. That&#8217;s the fact of the matter,&#8221; Sunny Hostin chimed in, saying the protests were &#8220;very, very orderly&#8221; and claiming that if immigration authorities had not showed up to enforce federal immigration law, there would be no problem.
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Using the latest liberal buzzwords meant to stir up fear and hate, Hostin warns that Trump is &#8220;militarizing&#8221; the state of California as a &#8220;test run&#8221; for cracking down on other sanctuary cities. 
&#8220;There is a plan,&#8221; she ominously fearmongers. <a href="https://t.co/ZfrDHw7zMB">pic.twitter.com/ZfrDHw7zMB</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1932456499042795633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hostin followed that by restating her point from the day before — that Trump was &#8220;militarizing&#8221; the National Guard — and claiming that Trump was moving ahead with cracking down on Los Angeles because he wanted a &#8220;test run&#8221; for going after other &#8220;sanctuary cities.&#8221;
It was then that Behar invoked the memory of <a href="https://www.kent.edu/may-4-historical-accuracy">Kent State</a>, saying that bringing in the National Guard reminded her of the situation that had played out there in 1970 when anti-war (Vietnam) protesters had effectively cornered the National Guard troops who were brought in by then-Governor James Rhodes. Several of the National Guardsmen fired their weapons, killing four and wounding nine. A 1974 criminal trial against eight National Guardsmen was dismissed by District Judge Frank Battisti mid-trial after he said that the prosecution&#8217;s case was so weak that the defense need not present its case at all.
&#8220;You know, and sometimes kids get killed when this happens. In my day, it was Kent State and they killed four kids, American students, and nine were injured very severely in those days, and I think that they&#8217;ve got to be very careful what they&#8217;re doing because that&#8217;s the next thing that will happen,&#8221; Behar said.
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Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin compares the National Guard in L.A. to U.S. troops in Afghanistan. &#8220;I have a major issue with the National Guard going in and now the U.S. Marines&#8230; [its] significantly more U.S. forces than we had in the winddown of Afghanistan.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/KHSoM0MPR0">pic.twitter.com/KHSoM0MPR0</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1932461296139571711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Alyssa Farah Griffin argued that bringing in the National Guard and the Marines — even after federal agents and local law enforcement had been clearly harassed and targeted with projectiles — was excessive because there were more deployed to Los Angeles than during the &#8220;wind-down of Afghanistan.&#8221;

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Ana Navarro claimed that by deploying the U.S. Army National Guard to Los Angeles — amid violent riots that were targeting federal agents — President Donald Trump was using them to set a &#8220;trap&#8221; for Latinos and force them into a violent reaction.
Navarro made the comments during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View&#8221; on ABC, as she and her cohosts attacked the Trump administration first for sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to enforce federal immigration laws and then for sending in the National Guard when protesters violently attacked the federal agents.
&#8220;Today, he is sending in the National Guard to attack the protesters who are there,&#8221; Navarro — who immigrated to the United States legally — said, suggesting that the point of bringing the National Guard in was for them to attack the protesters. &#8220;And look, this for me hits really close, I&#8217;m Latino, I&#8217;m an immigrant, these are my people who are getting dragged through the streets.&#8221;
She went on to warn the Latino community that Trump had sent the National Guard to goad them into committing acts of violence. &#8220;We must be strategic, we must be nonviolent. We have the right to protest, we are Americans, this is our country, we have the right to free speech, but we cannot fall into the trap that Donald Trump is setting of wanting to turn this into violent protests.&#8221;
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She then asserted that Trump wanted violence to distract from the fact that he and Elon Musk had argued over the One Big Beautiful Bill.
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Navarro decries ICE wearing masks: 
&#8220;The people who didn&#8217;t want to wear during a pandemic really want to wear a lot of masks now that they&#8217;re dragging women through the streets. <a href="https://t.co/MslXcStDb8">pic.twitter.com/MslXcStDb8</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1932106808702697843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Navarro concluded by attacking the ICE agents for wearing masks — which, according to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, has been permitted due to the number of agents who have been threatened or have had their families threatened.
&#8220;The people who didn&#8217;t want to wear during a pandemic really want to wear a lot of masks now that they&#8217;re dragging women through the streets,&#8221; she complained.

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Ana Navarro: Trump, National Guard Are Setting A ‘Trap’ To Force Latinos Into Violence

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Sunny Hostin claimed during a Monday broadcast that President Donald Trump was &#8220;militarizing&#8221; the U.S. Army National Guard when he deployed troops to quell the violent protests in Los Angeles, arguing that by doing so, he would ultimately set the stage for a &#8220;civil war.&#8221;
Hostin discussed the ongoing protests in Los Angeles — as well as the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to protect federal agents as the protests got more and more violent — with her fellow cohosts on the ABC midday talk show, and they complained that Trump&#8217;s plan to deport criminal illegal aliens was the real problem.
&#8220;The Defense Department has the U.S. Marines on high alert right now,&#8221; cohost Whoopi Goldberg began in mocking tones. &#8220;Now, you know, is it warranted or does this sort of escalate the situation? I mean, whatever happened to state&#8217;s rights?&#8221;
&#8220;I thought that what&#8217;s you do, &#8217;cause you tell the state that this is what you&#8217;re thinking, you know, you don&#8217;t just send people in, you don&#8217;t just send troops in,&#8221; Goldberg claimed. &#8220;But what do I know, I&#8217;ve never run a state? But I don&#8217;t really — when you come in and everyone is — when you go into the doughnut shop to look for people and you&#8217;re dressed in tactical gear, you&#8217;re creating an issue. You&#8217;re creating a problem.&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin decries Trump &#8220;militarizing&#8221; the National Guard and claims he&#8217;s going to have them start a &#8220;Civil War.&#8221; 
Ignoring the riots and violence, she claims the Guard is there &#8220;for the purpose of policing Americans&#8217; protest activity, our freedom of speech, our freedom of… <a href="https://t.co/3vEWwMIKSf">pic.twitter.com/3vEWwMIKSf</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1932104165712339004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hostin jumped in then, claiming that Trump was &#8220;militarizing&#8221; the National Guard — despite its existence as a state-based military force since 1636 and being attached to the United States Army officially in 1933 — by sending troops to keep the peace after protesters attacked ICE agents and their vehicles.
&#8220;I think what really matters from sort of a long view here is the fact that he is militarizing and deploying the Guard for the purpose of policing Americans&#8217; protest activity, our freedom of speech, our freedom of assembly,&#8221; Hostin insisted, suggesting that the National Guard had been brought in to silence the protesters rather than to keep them from damaging more property and hurting people.
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Hostin went on to argue that &#8220;an army turned inside&#8221; to police the citizens within the country would ultimately result in &#8220;chaos and fascism.&#8221;
&#8220;And civil war,&#8221; she agreed as Goldberg prompted her. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s the way we need to look at it because deploying the National Guard is supposed to be a last resort.&#8221;
Hostin then claimed that Trump had promised to deploy the National Guard anywhere in the country that protests occurred. What Trump has actually said, on a number of occasions, was that the federal government would step in and shut down violent riots if and when it became apparent that local authorities — in this case, Mayor Karen Bass (D-LA) and Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) — were either unable or unwilling to do so.

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Whoopi Goldberg came unglued during Thursday’s broadcast of “The View” on ABC, claiming even after living through all eight years of former President Barack Obama’s time in office, people keep telling her America “can’t elect a black man.”
Goldberg made the comment while complaining about the fact that, at least in her mind, Governor Wes Moore (D-MD) was not getting the kind of national buzz that she thought he deserved.
She began by claiming that she herself was so independent politically that even the term “independent” did not go far enough to describe her.
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What century is Whoopi Goldberg living in? Whoopi whines that no one is taking Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D) seriously for president because, &quot;You can&#39;t elect a black man.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/E8aanz7Qln">pic.twitter.com/E8aanz7Qln</a>
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Sunny Hostin began the conversation, saying that Goldberg, to her knowledge, had “been independent for a while.”
&#8220;There’s no name for what I am,” Goldberg replied, prompting laughter from the audience as she went on to explain her point further. “There’s no name. Because there are some things that fit what I want and some things that don’t. And I am the crazy person who said, ‘Why don’t we have a Democratic president and a Republican vice president?’”
Her cohosts recalled that she had, in fact, suggested that arrangement in the past.
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“I believe that the only way to get stuff done is to have both parties represented at the same time — and people keep telling me I’m crazy,” she continued.
Goldberg went on to mention Moore, calling him a “perfect candidate” — and cohost Sara Haines agreed, interjecting, “I love Wes Moore.”
“But people are saying, ‘You can’t elect a black man,’” Goldberg complained, asking, “Why not?”
Her cohosts pointed out that the United States had elected a black man — former President Obama — twice, and while Goldberg conceded the point, she claimed that had done nothing to deter the people who continued to tell her that such a thing could not be done.

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&#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Sunny Hostin claimed on Wednesday that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk was responsible — through cuts suggested by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project — for the loss of some 300,000 lives, who were &#8220;mostly children.&#8221;
Hostin made the comments during the ABC midday broadcast of &#8220;The View,&#8221; where she argued that even though Musk was stepping away from a more central role within President Donald Trump&#8217;s inner circle, he and his counterparts at DOGE had already done immeasurable damage.
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ABC New co-host Sunny Hostin claim Elon Musk has killed 300,000 children, without evidence. <a href="https://t.co/fGgylEtotw">pic.twitter.com/fGgylEtotw</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1930281243821699380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;But the damage that he did was just really incredible,&#8221; Hostin said. &#8220;He slashed 250,000 federal employees, more than 8500 contracts, more than 10,000 grants, and his cutbacks on medical research cost the lives of — the foreign aid — cost 300,000 lives, mostly children.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s the damage that Elon Musk did, so I don&#8217;t think anyone should be listening to him about anything,&#8221; she insisted.
The rest of Hostin&#8217;s co-hosts joined the pile-on a bit later, but they also were quick to suggest that Trump might need to watch his step as Musk exits the administration.
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ABC News co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and Hostin suggest Musk has the dirt on how Trump stole the 2024 election: 
WHOOPI: Elon knows the 411 on everything. 
HOSTIN: Yeah, he got all that information. 
WHOOPI: He knows how all this went down.BEHAR: So Trump should be afraid… <a href="https://t.co/DZR03MfBHl">pic.twitter.com/DZR03MfBHl</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1930284322272985539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Elon knows the 411 on everything,&#8221; co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed.
Hostin agreed: &#8220;Yeah, he got all that information.&#8221;
&#8220;He knows how all this came down,&#8221; Goldberg said.
&#8220;So Trump should be afraid of him,&#8221; co-host Joy Behar added, and then appeared to make an attempt at casting doubt on the legitimacy of Trump&#8217;s victory in the 2024 presidential election. &#8220;He has the receipts on the election, too.&#8221;

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‘The View’ Host Claims Elon Musk Caused 300,000 Deaths Due To DOGE Cuts: ‘Mostly Children’

'The View' Host Claims Elon Musk Caused 300,000 Deaths Due To DOGE Cuts: 'Mostly Children'

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In a moment that recalled former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s frustrated exclamation during the Benghazi hearings, &#8220;The View&#8221; host Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at everyone who has been questioning former President Joe Biden&#8217;s cognitive and physical fitness for the job he held until January 20.
&#8220;Why is this important to know now?&#8221; she demanded to know during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast — the same day that &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; the book from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson on Biden&#8217;s obvious decline, hit bookstores everywhere.
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Whoopi decries the American people learning Democrats lied to them about Biden&#8217;s health: 
&#8220;Why is this important to know now?!&#8221; 
Joy Behar tries to distract from the fact she and the cast took part in the coverup by manically ranting about &#8220;Trump&#8217;s atrocities.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/VLhiOV2Oa7">pic.twitter.com/VLhiOV2Oa7</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924847259490943363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Golberg began by attacking the authors&#8217; reliance on &#8220;anonymous sources&#8221; to write the book — and wondered why those people, if they were willing to provide such damning information after the fact, had not been willing to speak up earlier.
&#8220;But my question is, why is this important to know now?&#8221; Goldberg asked — sounding much like Clinton, who during the Benghazi hearings had asked, &#8220;What difference, at this point, does it make?&#8221;
&#8220;It just seems to me, you know, we got a lot of stuff to be concerned about at the moment,&#8221; she continued, suggesting that it no longer mattered that Biden&#8217;s decline was hidden from the American people even thought many of the people responsible for hiding it were still in positions of influence and power.
Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back on the rest of her cohosts, saying that if they wanted to claim they were supportive of a free press, they couldn&#8217;t attack the press when it reported things they didn&#8217;t like.
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Sara Haines actually acknowledges the audio of Hur&#8217;s interview with Biden where he forgets major moments of his life. 
Whoopi defends, arguing that sure he&#8217;s &#8220;83 and &#8220;a little stumbly, a little rumbly&#8221; but &#8220;I can&#8217;t point to anything that he&#8217;s done as president [that&#8217;s evidence of… <a href="https://t.co/mkLQ6aa8j0">pic.twitter.com/mkLQ6aa8j0</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924853941956673744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sara Haines mentioned the recently-released audio from former Special Counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s interview with Biden, acknowledging how damaging that was to Biden — but Goldberg pushed back and dismissed Biden&#8217;s failure to recall important events as him being just &#8220;a little stumble, a little rumbly.&#8221;

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; complained during Monday&#8217;s broadcast about former President Joe Biden&#8217;s cancer diagnosis and people who might bring politics into it — immediately after which they injected their own politics by trying to make it about President Donald Trump.
Whoopi Goldberg started the ball rolling, reacting on the show to the news that Biden — who had just appeared on the show a little over a week earlier — had been diagnosed with an advanced and &#8220;aggressive form&#8221; of prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones.
Goldberg laughed off claims that there was any cover-up regarding Biden&#8217;s health or cognitive fitness, and then used a clip from his recent appearance — where former First Lady Jill Biden had been forced to step in and help him answer a question — as proof that he was fine.
She then complained that the new revelation regarding his cancer diagnosis would only &#8220;add fuel to the fire&#8221; for those who already believed that the Bidens had not been telling the truth about his condition. Her assessment was that it was time for everyone to simply &#8220;put politics aside.&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin makes Biden&#8217;s cancer diagnosis about Trump: 
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think this is a time for politics. But what I will say is that this administration has cut cancer funding research&#8230;cutting cancer research not only for our elderly, our men, but also our children. And I think… <a href="https://t.co/EfcosBBvBN">pic.twitter.com/EfcosBBvBN</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924508534714061167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sunny Hostin started off in agreement with Goldberg, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think this is a time for politics.&#8221;
She then immediately pivoted to make it political — and use it to attack President Donald Trump — adding, &#8220;But what I will say is that this administration has cut cancer funding research &#8230; cutting cancer research not only for our elderly, our men, but also our children. And I think that&#8217;s so despicable and so disdainful.&#8221;
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin brought the topic back around to Biden, saying that there was a way to have the conversation without making it solely about the politics, arguing that the latter would not be &#8220;helpful to anyone.&#8221;
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Goldberg claims &#8220;there&#8217;s no way&#8221; Biden had cancer during his presidency and hid it from the voters: 
&#8220;[H]ad this been the case while he was president, there&#8217;s no way you wouldn&#8217;t have known because he would have had to have these treatments. So this is not something he was… <a href="https://t.co/S0Egee6YbR">pic.twitter.com/S0Egee6YbR</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924512513980354828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg jumped back in to insist it was impossible for Biden to have had cancer while he was president because he would not have been able to hide the treatments from the public.
&#8220;[H]ad this been the case while he was president, there&#8217;s no way you wouldn&#8217;t have known because he would have had to have these treatments. So this is not something he was carrying around or that he was hiding,&#8221; she said.

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‘The View’ Hosts Want Politics Out Of Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis — Unless They Can Blame Trump

'The View' Hosts Want Politics Out Of Biden's Cancer Diagnosis — Unless They Can Blame Trump

The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; joined a number of other media personalities in claiming that President Donald Trump was only allowing 59 Afrikaners to claim <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spare-me-scott-jennings-scorches-dems-for-sudden-about-face-on-refugees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refugee status</a> because they are white — while also claiming that because the Afrikaners are white, they are not &#8220;truly refugees.&#8221;
Sunny Hostin addressed the issue during Thursday&#8217;s broadcast, complaining that the Trump administration had limited refugee status for Afghans and Haitians, to whom she referred as &#8220;truly refugees.&#8221; Hostin also took a swing at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying she found it to be an &#8220;insult&#8221; that the former South Dakota Governor holds that position.
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Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin denouncing President Trump granting refugee status to 59 white South Africans. She demands the status for Haitians, who are &#8220;truly refugees.&#8221; 
JOY BEHAR: They&#8217;re not white people. That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t want them here. 
SUNNY HOSTIN: She said it, I… <a href="https://t.co/3iBDrey1VO">pic.twitter.com/3iBDrey1VO</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1923052595846774839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;For me, you know, I think one thing — having Kristi Noem be in charge of Homeland Security, in and of itself, is an insult, it&#8217;s just an insult,&#8221; Hostin began. &#8220;And I think something that we&#8217;re not talking about — enough about — is what Donald Trump did on Monday: the Trump administration allowed in 59 white South African refugees into this country, claiming that they were fleeing racial discrimination and land appropriation.&#8221;
Hostin went on to claim that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa had disputed reports of land appropriation and racially motivated discrimination — despite the fact that Ramaphosa himself signed a bill into law in late January that allows the government to expropriate private property for reasons up to and including &#8220;to promote inclusivity and access to natural resources.&#8221;
The Afrikaners, according to Hostin, did not qualify as refugees. Instead, she referenced refugees from Afghanistan and falsely claimed that the program in place to grant protected status to Afghans &#8220;who helped us&#8221; during the war had been ended. In fact, the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghans-deportation-protections-ending/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> Afghan Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program is entirely separate from the more permanent Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program exclusively for Afghans who were allies during the war.
&#8220;And so the fact that Afghan refugees — people who helped us during the Afghanistan war — who helped us and protected our troops, that program has been dismissed. The fact that Haitians that are truly refugees, they have been denied protected status.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re not white people. That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t want them here,&#8221; cohost Joy Behar suggested.
&#8220;She said it, I didn&#8217;t,&#8221; Hostin agreed.

‘The View’ Hosts Are Pretty Sure That White South Africans Aren’t ‘Truly Refugees’

'The View' Hosts Are Pretty Sure That White South Africans Aren't 'Truly Refugees'

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; complained about President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Americans — but as Whoopi Goldberg laid out her objections, it appeared as though her main objection was the fact that Trump was doing what Democrats had not been able to do thus far.
Goldberg started off the conversation during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast by asserting that Trump&#8217;s plan was bad because he had not yet specified which drugs he was talking about, nor had he explained which health insurance plans might be impacted by any new policies.
&#8220;Well, again, he didn&#8217;t specify which drugs he was going to target — or which insurance programs would be impacted,&#8221; she complained. &#8220;Because you see, if you&#8217;re going to lower the price of the drugs, you gotta first fix the broken insurance company,&#8221; Goldberg laughed. &#8220;Because they are — it doesn&#8217;t make any sense.&#8221;
&#8220;You know what though, I would think that you have to take money out of politics, too, because a lot of these guys in Congress, don&#8217;t they take money from pharmaceutical lobbyists?&#8221; Joy Behar asked. &#8220;I mean —&#8221;
&#8220;But there are lobbyists in other countries, too,&#8221; cohost Sara Haines pushed back.
Behar pivoted then to attack Trump&#8217;s appearance and weight, saying, &#8220;The guy has 153 rooms in the White House. He can&#8217;t have one mirror to look into? He&#8217;s always criticizing, &#8216;This one&#8217;s not a 10, this one&#8217;s a six, this one&#8217;s fat, this one&#8217;s — he said the friend is &#8216;highly neurotic.&#8217; Hello? Look in the mirror &#8230;&#8221;
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Alyssa Farah Griffin bursts their bubble by pointing out that some of their favorite progressives in Congress, Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders, have a bill that does exactly what Trump wants to do. 
Whoopi RAGES anyway and claims socialism is not socialism. <a href="https://t.co/EDA3DwcMGh">pic.twitter.com/EDA3DwcMGh</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1922322025089040541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out the fact that Trump&#8217;s plan was actually supported by some of the progressives in Congress — including Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) because some parts of it mirrored a bill they were already working on to lower drug costs.
Griffin then said that her main issue with the plan was the potential for enforcement of lowered prices, which she said veered too close to Soviet-style price controls for her tastes.
Goldberg then responded by arguing that the infusion of socialism into the health care system — the raising of taxes on everyone to make sure that the government could absorb the costs of drugs so that those who needed medication were able to afford it — was not actually socialism.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not socialism,&#8221; she insisted. &#8220;It&#8217;s best for the country if everyone can afford their health care!&#8221;

‘The View’ Panics Over Trump’s Plan To Lower Drug Costs, Mainly Because Dems Failed To Do It First

'The View' Panics Over Trump's Plan To Lower Drug Costs, Mainly Because Dems Failed To Do It First

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Sunny Hostin, who criticized the newly-elected Pope Leo XIV on Friday because his views on marriage and the LGBTQ+ community aligned with the Catholic Church&#8217;s traditional teachings, appeared to reverse course after learning that he had black heritage.
Hostin, who has often touted her own &#8220;devout&#8221; Catholic faith in spite of her support for abortion and other social issues not embraced by the Church, said it was a &#8220;chef&#8217;s kiss&#8221; moment when she&#8217;d learned that Pope Leo XIV — formerly known as Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago — had &#8220;Haitian and black roots.&#8221;
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After denouncing him last week, The View&#8217;s race baiter, Sunny Hostin does a 180-flip-flop on Pope Leo once she found out of his black ancestry: 
&#8220;As it turns out, our new American pope has Haitian and black roots! So, we actually have a black pope! &#8230; It&#8217;s a chef&#8217;s kiss for me… <a href="https://t.co/EYzfI7jbYR">pic.twitter.com/EYzfI7jbYR</a>
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&#8220;There&#8217;s one other thing that&#8217;s also very interesting to me because President Trump, as you remember, called Haiti a certain type of country,&#8221; Hostin began, recalling Trump&#8217;s assertions that Haiti was a &#8220;s***hole country.&#8221;
&#8220;As it turns out, our new American pope has Haitian and black roots! So, we actually have a black pope! Apparently — it&#8217;s like a chef&#8217;s kiss for me — so apparently both of his maternal grandparents are described as black, Haitian, or mulatto in several census documents. And on their marriage license, his birth — the grandfather&#8217;s birthplace is Haiti, listed as Haiti, her birthplace is listed as born in New Orleans. They were identified as people of color, but in 1920 when they migrated to Chicago, the census reflected their race as white.&#8221;
&#8220;So I&#8217;m loving everything about this new pope,&#8221; cohost Ana Navarro interjected.
&#8220;So, I’m loving it. I’m really enjoying it,&#8221; Hostin agreed. &#8220;And it’s good to have a black pope!&#8221;
Just three days earlier, during Friday&#8217;s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show, Hostin raised her concerns about Pope Leo XIV — primarily citing his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/catholic-hosts-of-the-view-were-hoping-for-a-new-pope-who-was-less-catholic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previous statements</a> about the LGBTQ+ community.
&#8220;I’m a little concerned about this choice for the LGBTQ+ community. In 2012, he gave an address to bishops, and he lamented ‘the popular culture fostered and sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel.’ And that’s a quote,” she complained. “And then he cited the homosexual lifestyle and alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children.&#8221;

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Flip-Flop: 'The View' Host Approves Of New Pope After Learning He Has Black Ancestry

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Former President Joe Biden claimed on Thursday that he could have once again bested President Donald Trump if he had not opted to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election in late July.
Biden joined the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; — with former first lady Jill Biden at his side — and the conversation turned to the 2024 campaign as the cohosts asked about his decision to exit the race and whether or not he regretted dropping out.
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Sara Haines commends Biden for his &#8220;selfless and very difficult decision&#8221; to get out of the race, but wanted to know what he thought was the reason for Harris&#8217;s defeat. 
Biden seems to blame it on Americans being sexist: &#8220;I was surprised because they went the route of the sexist… <a href="https://t.co/IRgS19rfim">pic.twitter.com/IRgS19rfim</a>
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Cohost Sara Haines praised Biden for taking the &#8220;selfless&#8221; route and stepping aside, saying that Democrats hd been shocked when former Vice President Kamala Harris had then been unable to close the deal. &#8220;It was like 2016 all over again,&#8221; she complained, and then asked Biden why he thought Harris had not been able to beat Trump.
&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t surprised, not because I didn&#8217;t think the vice president was the most qualified person to be president. She&#8217;s qualified to be President of the United States of America. I was surprised — I was surprised because they went the route of — the sexist route, the whole route,&#8221; Biden said, adding, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen quite a successful and consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn&#8217;t lead the country — and a woman of mixed race.&#8221;
Biden also told Haines that he&#8217;d spoken to Harris just a day earlier, although he would not say what they discussed.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin asks if Biden still thought he could have beaten Trump. 
He does: &#8220;Yes. He still got 7 million fewer votes.&#8221; 
Biden also dismisses Trump winning all the swing states. 
He thanks The View for not focusing on poll numbers. <a href="https://t.co/eBrACmqJdR">pic.twitter.com/eBrACmqJdR</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1920499382840865168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin asked Biden — whose exit came on the heels of a disastrous televised debate with President Trump in late June — whether he believed he could have won if he had remained on the ballot through the end of the campaign, and he said that he did.
Griffin noted that Trump had won all of the battleground states and had increased his support in almost every demographic, but Biden was not deterred.
&#8220;Yes, he still got less — it wasn&#8217;t a slam dunk,&#8221; Biden claimed, suggesting that because Trump won the 2024 election with fewer votes than Biden got in 2020, he would have won if he&#8217;d stayed in the race.

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Yes, Joe Biden Still Thinks He Could Have Beaten Trump In 2024

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Former President Joe Biden got only one question about his obvious cognitive decline when he made an appearance on Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; — and former first lady Jill Biden had to jump in and help him with his response.
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, who typically identifies herself as a Republican despite <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-host-of-the-view-admits-to-fawning-cohosts-she-voted-kamala" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supporting</a> former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, took the most indirect route possible to the obvious question. Rather than basing it on hours and hours of speeches and public appearance where Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doocy-corners-karine-jean-pierre-who-ordered-white-house-officials-to-cover-up-bidens-decline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cognitive abilities</a> were clearly lacking, Griffin instead framed it around the numerous books that are now being written by insiders revealing what they knew and when they knew it.
&#8220;Since you left office, there have been a number of books that have come out, deeply sourced from Democratic sources that claim in your final year there was a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities, in the final year of your presidency,&#8221; Griffin said. &#8220;What is your response to these allegations and are these sources wrong?&#8221;
&#8220;They are wrong. There&#8217;s nothing to sustain that, um, number one,&#8221; Biden began, before pivoting to give a rambling response that in no way addressed the point of Griffin&#8217;s question. &#8220;Number two, you know, think of what we were left with, we were left with a circumstance where we — uh — we had an insurrection? When I started, we — not since the Civil War.&#8221;
Biden then appeared to blame the pandemic — and one million dead Americans — on President Donald Trump, adding, &#8220;We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we — uh — well, the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end up over a million people dying, a million people dying. And we&#8217;re also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues and, uh, which I won&#8217;t go into here in the interest of time &#8230; and so we went to work and we got it done, and you know one of the things that, well, that —&#8221;
The former president appeared to lose his train of thought then, prompting Jill Biden to jump in and answer the question for him — and she tried to suggest that the authors of the books did not know what they were talking about.
&#8220;You know, one of the things I think is that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;And they didn&#8217;t see how hard Joe worked every single day. I mean, he&#8217;d get up, he&#8217;d put in a full day, and then at night he&#8217;d — I&#8217;d be in bed, you know, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings, working with staff &#8230; I think he was a great president.&#8221;
She concluded with a jab at President Trump, saying, &#8220;If you look at things today, give me Joe Biden any time.&#8221;
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Farah Griffin notes that Biden was pushed out by Democratic Party insiders and donors, including personal friends. &#8220;Can I ask what your relationship is with President Obama and how you address those concerns that they raised?&#8221; 
Biden claims: &#8220;The only reason I got out of the race… <a href="https://t.co/Wtbjwp9UOY">pic.twitter.com/Wtbjwp9UOY</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1920512176164323747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Griffin pushed back lightly, noting that Biden ultimately left the 2024 presidential race after some prodding from members of his own party — including former President Barack Obama, with whom he had served as vice president for eight years.
&#8220;Can I ask what your relationship is with President Obama and how you address those concerns that they raised?&#8221; she asked.
Biden insisted that the only reason he&#8217;d left the presidential race was to avoid further division within the Democratic Party.

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Joe Biden Gets One Question About His Cognitive Decline. Jill Has To Help Him Answer It.

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