The Friday after the National Review published a scathing article calling out The View’s faux “conservative” Alyssa Farah Griffin, she showed her true blue colors as she falsely accused Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of scamming his supporters with a recurring donation “grift.” This was backed up by co-host Sunny Hostin asserting, without evidence, that “people are losing their homes” to his scam.
These false accusations were spewed during a conversation where the liberal cast was gawking at the possibility of DeSantis running for president in 2024. ABC chief legal analyst Dan Abrams was guest co-hosting and suggested DeSantis was duping Trump supporters who were giving to his gubernatorial campaign because it could be used to run against former President Trump:
And there are Trump donors who now giving to DeSantis. Meaning they're giving to his, quote, “re-election campaign” – right – for governor. But they know he's raising much more money than he's actually going to need for the governor's race. And as a result, he's going to have this huge war chest at the end of this re-election campaign. Guess where that's going to go?
“Who are these people giving money to these people?!” Hostin exclaimed in disbelief. “Business,” chided faux Republican and Florida resident Ana Navarro.
Speaking as if she was giving away a dirty little secret about the DeSantis campaign, Farah Griffin suggested he was getting his money via a donation scam program. “For folks who aren't familiar, what a lot of these apps and websites do is you click to give once, and it actually signs you up to recurrently give. It is so unfair. It is a grift. It is terrible,” she proclaimed.
“People are losing their homes! They’re losing their savings!” Hostin shrieked. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg added, with heavy sarcasm: “What a surprise. There's a grift involved in this, oh no!”
But responding to a video tweet of this segment, The Washington Examiner’s Department of Justice and investigative reporter, Jerry Dunleavy pointed out in a tweet that the “WinRed donation page for DeSantis’s gubernatorial campaign does not automatically make a donation a recurring one, but instead it’s a box you have to voluntarily select yourself.” He even included an image from the page (below).
Putting aside Alyssa Farah calling something a “grift”— I just checked & the WinRed donation page for DeSantis’s gubernatorial campaign does not automatically make a donation a recurring one, but instead it’s a box you have to voluntarily select yourself.https://t.co/Nflc1Nt4lf https://t.co/rmlTDkCb2Q pic.twitter.com/kCotEqJ8Xy
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) July 15, 2022
This wasn’t the only lie Farah Griffin told about the political party she purports to still be a part of. Earlier in the show, during a conversation about the 10-year-old Ohio girl who was raped and got an abortion (they omitted the part about the alleged rapist being an illegal immigrant), she parroted the leftist falsehood that the pro-life side didn’t care about the babies and women after birth.
“To be pro-life needs to mean supporting moms throughout their lives. It means paid parental leave, it means investing in foster and adoption care,” she said. “Frustrates me so much that my party really cares about them having the baby, but there's no benefits that they’re going to have after the fact.”
In reality, there are many pro-life organizations and charities that support women and babies after birth. In fact, the left hates how crisis pregnancy centers outnumber abortion mills 3-1 and they want to shut them down.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
July 15, 2022
11:12:02 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I cannot fathom the stupidity that I have seen here. I'm shocked by it.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And just really quick. To be pro-life needs to mean supporting moms throughout their lives. It means paid parental leave, it means investing in foster and adoption care. It’s not just – It just frustrates me so much.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Universal pre-k.
FARAH GRIFFIN: [Nods in agreement] Frustrates me so much that my party really cares about them having the baby, but there's no benefits that they’re going to have after the fact.
[Applause]
GOLDBERG: We had a conversation yesterday about how – how people want you to have these babies, but people don't provide these things you need like a doula, like a midwife.
(…)
11:22:05 a.m. Eastern
DAN ABRAMS: And there are Trump donors who now giving to DeSantis. Meaning they're giving to his, quote, “re-election campaign” – right – for governor. But they know he's raising much more money than he's actually going to need for the governor's race. And as a result, he's going to have this huge war chest at the end of this re-election campaign. Guess where that's going to go?
HOSTIN: You were saying he has about $200 million?
ABRAMS: He’s going to have about $200 million probably by the time of the election. He’s got about 125 or so.
HOSTIN: Who are these people giving money to these people?!
ANA NAVARRO: Business.
FARAH GRIFFIN: By the way, Sunny made a good point. For folks who aren't familiar, what a lot of these apps and websites do is you click to give once, and it actually signs you up to recurrently give. It is so unfair. It is a grift. It is terrible.
HOSTIN: People are losing their homes! They’re losing their savings!
GOLDBERG: What a surprise. There's a grift involved in this, oh no! [Sarcastically]
ABRAMS: A lot of the people who are giving to DeSantis have a lot of money. I mean, you know, this is a lot of people with a lot of big money.
(…)
