It appears as though the likes of former Trump administration officials Alyssa Farah Griffin and Stephanie Grisham sold out their “conservative” principles for The View’s blessing for nothing (not like it was worth anything to begin with). During Friday’s edition of the ABC show, co-host Joy Behar lashed out at them, calling them “recovering addicts” and complaining about them coming on the show; essentially exposing how the liberal cast doesn’t even want mediocre opposition on the program.
“So, I do think he needs to be commended for his actions that day,” self-proclaimed Republicans and staunch Never Trumper Ana Navarro said of former Vice President Mike Pence’s actions on January 6. “That does not erase four years of complicity.”
That was that comment that set off Behar. “Exactly. These people who are now all, like, recovering addicts – recovering addicts in the Trump world that come on, even on this show. They come on this show, they go on other shows and they're turning on Trump,” she whined.
It’s obvious who she was talking about as Griffin and Grisham are part of the rotation for the “conservative” seat and are the only ones who used to work in the Trump administration. Griffin has even been on the show multiple days earlier in the week. And both are seemingly okay with relegating themselves to being punching bags for the liberal cast members.
Behar went on demanding to know where those women were during some of Trump’s more controversial moments (Click “expand”):
BEHAR: Where were you all that time when he was talking about grabbing women by their nether regions? When he made fun of a war hero, John McCain. When he criticized soldiers as being cowards.
Whoopi GOLDBERG: Gold star families, yeah.
BEHAR: The gold star families.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah.
BEHAR: I mean, come on. Where was Mike Pence when Trump called Zelenskyy to ask him to interfere in the election?
HOSTIN: Yes.
BEHAR: Where was he during the impeachment process? He was not there.
Seemingly calling out Griffin directly, Navarro chimed in by noting, “They're now all pro-Ukraine with little flags of Ukraine on their Twitter profile after they allowed the quid pro quo.” As of Navarro’s comment, Griffin did have a Ukrainian flag on her Twitter profile and Grisham did not.
“I mean, it's disgraceful. We're onto all of them. Don’t try to fool us,” Behar concluded on the subject.
This bitter outburst came as the show was struggling to find a conservative to join the panel after Meghan McCain left the show. The desire for a conservative seemed to be a corporate decision because during an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America last month, liberal co-host Sara Haines said she wished Hillary Clinton could be the new cast member.
On Tuesday, seemingly appeasing the liberal cast members, Griffin let her “conservative” mask slip as she eagerly asked: “Who are the Dems going to run? Where is like the Obama energy that we could bring?” Meanwhile, she’s repeatedly asserted, “I’m a conservative. I’m a Republican.”
Griffin has been widely accused of selling out to enrich and ingratiate herself with influential people on from the left. And former Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway called her out back in May: “Alyssa, if you're saying that somehow you think we're supposed to think that you've seen the light and not just see your name in lights, that's not fair.”
Both Griffin and Grisham are desperate for the approval of The View, but they’ll get it.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
June 17, 2022
11:03:19 a.m. Eastern(…)
ANA NAVARRO: So, I do think he [former Vice President Mike Pence] needs to be commended for his actions that day.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Yes. Yeah.
NAVARRO: That does not erase four years –
GOLDBERG: OF saying nothing.
NAVARRO: – of complicity.
JOY BEHAR: Exactly. These people who are now all, like, recovering addicts – recovering addicts in the Trump world that come on, even on this show. They come on this show, they go on other shows and they're turning on Trump.
Where were you all that time when he was talking about grabbing women by their nether regions? When he made fun of a war hero, John McCain. When he criticized soldiers as being cowards.
GOLDBERG: Gold star families, yeah.
BEHAR: The gold star families.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah.
BEHAR: I mean, come on. Where was Mike Pence when Trump called Zelenskyy to ask him to interfere in the election?
HOSTIN: Yes.
BEHAR: Where was he during the impeachment process? He was not there.
NAVARRO: They're now all pro-Ukraine with little flags of Ukraine on their Twitter profile after they allowed the quid pro quo.
BEHAR: I mean, it's disgraceful. We're onto all of them. Don’t try to fool us. And if he did his job and became a hero then we're all heroes because we're just doing our job.
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