The female co-hosts of ABC’s The View weekday program regularly get into arguments and often try to shout over each other, but Monday set a new standard when Jedediah Bila declared that former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey came off as a "coward" during his Senate testimony last week.
“I don’t think he was lying,” Bila stated before noting that her issue was definitely with Comey, who “sat there for so long” and moaned: “Oh, this made me uncomfortable.”
“He should have been stronger,” she stated, before people asked him: “Did you do anything about” the situation at the FBI? “Did you say anything to President Trump?”
“’Well, no. If I were stronger, maybe I would have,’” she imitated Comey in a wimpy tone of voice.
“That’s an irrelevant point,” fellow co-host Joy Behar asserted. “The truth of the matter is: Who is lying? According to PolitiFact, Donald Trump has lied 277 times in the past two years,” she stated to audience applause. “And Comey has not.”
“How do you know he hasn’t lied?” Bila responded.
According to an article by David Rutz, video editor for the Washington Free Beacon, “Comey testified about private conversations he had with President Donald Trump that included Trump leaning on him regarding ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.”
Also on Monday, co-host Whoopi Goldberg noted: “You were willing to accept what [Comey] was saying about all the other stuff. Now you’re stuck with it. He wasn’t lying then. He’s not lying now.”
“I don’t know who’s lying,” Bila said before Goldberg replied: “You know who’s lying.”
Co-host Sunny Hostin joined the argument by indicating: “Comey is known for being a truthful person, and I will say this after watching his testimony again, because I did that over the weekend: None of the senators on that Intelligence Committee questioned his veracity.”
"It doesn't seem odd to you that if he were sitting there and he were witnessing obstruction of justice, if he were witnessing, ‘This guy's a liar, let me take some memos,'" Bila said, "that he wouldn’t say something to the Senate Intel Committee. Say something to the Justice Department."
Next came the remaining co-host, Sara Haines, who added:
I felt that when you watched the whole thing, you had to piece together a lot of things going on.
The fact that he had never taken memos before but felt that the action of writing a memo, it was merited in this situation.
“I think the idea that he kept saying: ‘Let’s not parcel the words. I’m a grown man. I’ve been the head of the FBI. I felt differently this time.’ A lot of that stuff together started to create a picture for me” that caused her to grunt unhappily.
“It also seems weird to me though that he felt the need to take these memos on Trump,” Bila stated, “fine, but you didn’t take memos on [former Attorney General] Loretta Lynch, and there you have him admitting Loretta Lynch told me that I should not call this an investigation into Hillary Clinton. I should call it a ‘matter,’” a request that made him feel ‘queasy.’”
“You know what?” Goldberg asked. “Let’s not muddy the waters. … The bottom line is simply this, OK? The guy’s who in charge now, who [Principal Deputy White House Press Secretary] Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she definitely can say that the president’s not a liar.”
“That’s a lie!” Hostin declared at the end of the segment to laughter from the audience.
Obviously, the liberal co-hosts and studio audience for The View only enjoy harsh comments regarding conservatives. We can only wonder who the next Republican target will be.
