It may have been April 1, but the fools on ABC’s The View are that way year-round. As was the cast on Friday as co-host Sunny Hostin and guest co-host Chelsea Clinton falsely claimed that Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, “was actively participating” in the violent riot that stormed the Capitol on January 6. Hostin was then forced to read a “legal note” regarding their baseless accusations.
After playing a soundbite of Speaker Nancy Pelosi claiming Thomas was a “contributor to a coup,” Hostin jumped in to hype the falsehood. “Isn't that something? Nancy is dead on. She's right about this,” she boasted. “[Thomas] was strategizing about the coup.”
The Clinton spawn quickly started shrieking, without evidence, about how Thomas “was actively participating in the white nationalist violent insurrection against our country!” “She was actively participating. Exactly,” Hostin exclaimed in agreement.
If this was truly the case, why are there no pictures of her at the riot and why has she not been arrested and charged? And the idea that Ginni is a “white nationalist” given her marriage is ridiculous. Then again they use air quotes when they talk about Justice Thomas being a “black man.”
A few minutes later, someone from ABC’s standards and practices put up a legal note that Hostin was forced to read to cover the network’s butt. And, of course, Clinton had to obnoxiously give her two cents in the middle of it:
HOSTIN: Oh, I'm sorry. Ginni Thomas has denied any conflict of interest between her activism and her husband's work on the Supreme Court. She acknowledged to attending the January 6 Stop the Steal rally--
CLINTON: In quotes, stop the steal.
HOSTIN: Yes. But said she left early because it was cold and denied she was involved in organizing it.
“So Sunny, how do you really feel about that statement,” Clinton quipped, teeing up Hostin to scoff at what she was required to disclose. “I just know that we have to, you know, give her version of events, but they're pretty interesting,” she responded with a pained expression.
Anti-Trump Republican Ana Navarro wanted to let the cast know that she saw a comment on Twitter about how the Thomases “put the coup in couple.” “Yes. Yes, they do,” Hostin agreed, clearly not learning her lesson from the legal note.
That was a better interaction than they had earlier in the show when Hostin flipped out and shouted at Navarro for not leaving the Republican Party because “the Republican Party that you loved doesn't exist anymore! It's the party of insurrectionists. It's the party of traitors,” and “white supremacists,” according to Clinton.
Hostin flipped out earlier this week when she was shouting about how President Biden can’t negotiate with Republicans because “you can’t build consensus with crazy people.”
And this wasn’t the first time Hostin was forced to read a legal note after smearing conservatives. Late last month, she was made to read one after the cast falsely stated that Justices Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh were “credibly accused” of sexual misconduct.
Sunny Hostin’s smears of Ginni Thomas were made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from CarShield and Charmin. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
April 1, 2022
11:17:23 a.m. Eastern(…)
SUNNY HOSTIN: Ana and I have this argument all the time. I always say, why are you still a Republican?
ANA NAVARRO: Why are you still a Catholic? You don't agree with everything about the Catholic church.
HOSTIN: Yes, but --
NAVARRO: Did you love --
HOSTIN: But the Catholic Church did not try to destroy democracy in this country?! That's very, very different. We're talking about political party that doesn't even exist anymore.
NAVARRO: What party was Abraham Lincoln?
JOY BEHAR: The Republican party.
HOSTIN: Of course, there has been a change.
NAVARRO: Who helped pass the voter registration act the first time?
HOSTIN: Ana, what you have to understand is the Republican Party that you loved doesn't exist anymore! It's the party of insurrectionists. It's the party of traitors.
CHELSEA CLINTON: White supremacists.
HOSTIN: What was that?
CLINTON: White supremacist.
HOSTIN: White supremacists. It's not the party you loved. It's just not.
(…)
11:24:55 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: Isn't that something? Nancy is dead on. She's right about this. I mean, if Ginni Thomas were just, let's say, talking about, I don't know political, issues, that would be one thing, but she was sending text messages to the chief of staff, to Mark Meadows, Trump's chief of staff, and she was strategizing about the coup.
CHELSEA CLINTON: She was actively participating in the white nationalist violent insurrection against our country!
HOSTIN: She was actively participating. Exactly! And the notion that this is a close call of conflict of interest, every legal expert that has weighed in has said this is not a close call. He must recuse.
(…)
11:27:09 a.m. Eastern
BEHAR: You have a legal note.
HOSTIN: Oh, I'm sorry. Ginni Thomas has denied any conflict of interest between her activism and her husband's work on the Supreme Court. She acknowledged to attending the January 6 Stop the Steal rally--
CLINTON: In quotes, stop the steal.
HOSTIN: Yes. But said she left early because it was cold and denied she was involved in organizing it.
CLINTON: So Sunny, how do you really feel about that statement?
HOSTIN: I just know that we have to, you know, give her version of events, but they're pretty interesting.
NAVARRO: I saw a meme on Twitter this week which I think encapsulates it. They put the coup [pronounced coop] in couple.
HOSTIN: Yes. Yes, they do.
BEHAR: The coup. It’s a coup though.
NAVARRO: C – o – u – p.
BEHAR: I know, you say coup, not coop.
NAVARRO: Okay, I'm saying it in Spanish.
CLINTON: Well, it's true in any language. Right? It's true in any language.
HOSTIN: It's true in any language.
(…)
