The left is so terrified that Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis will be the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2024 that they’re already desperately trying to devalue his stock. This was evident on Monday’s edition of The View where co-host Joy Behar indignantly demanded that DeSantis denounce a tiny group of “neo-Nazis” that gathered uninvited on the periphery of a Turning Point USA event over the weekend where he spoke, despite the Governor having already denouncing them months ago.
After mocking the event for using smoke machines (“What, are they smoking something down there?” So funny…), Behar stumbled her way through recalling what the handful of neo-Nazis did outside the event and falsely declared that DeSantis thought they were “good people”:
Anyway, they were out there. Neo-Nazis were in the front of Turning Point – out there in front of the conference with anti-Semitic slurs, and, you know, the Nazi swastika and a picture of a so-called Jewish person with exaggerated features. Just like -- like Goebbels did the Hitler – in – during the Third Reich. It’s the same thing. Right out of that same playbook. Okay? And DeSantis did not say anything about it, nothing. So, it's his sort of his rendition of good people on both sides, same idea.
The liberal media tried to pull this same piece of shtick routine on him earlier this year after a handful of neo-Nazis gathered on a highway overpass in Orlando. And at the time, DeSantis denounced the group and the liberal media for trying to suggest he had ties or sympathies for them. That’s not to mention that hateful groups like The Lincoln Project have staged hoax Nazi gatherings outside right-wing events, as they did with a Glenn Youngkin gubernatorial campaign stop in Virginia in 2021.
A short time later, after decrying how the event exposed young people to right-wing politics, Sara Haines was forced to read a “legal note” admitting Turning Point “condemned the group of neo-Nazis and said they have nothing to do with the organization.” “Yeah, but where was DeSantis is what I want to know,” Behar clownishly continued to harp.
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg went into the commercial break falsely claiming that Turning Point “let them in” and “knew what they were,” thus were “complicit” with Nazism.
But following the commercial break, Goldberg immediately tried to walk back her false claims with a “quick clarification” while also trying to maintain the stink she put on Turning Point. “They were outside protesters. My point was more metaphorical. You embraced them at your thing. I felt,” she said. She was joined Haines who suggested “they felt invited” by Turning Point.
Apparently, the definition of “embraced” has changed to barring them entry and staying away from them.
Behar joined in by defending the left-wing domestic terrorist group Antifa and whining that they get a bad reputation:
Well, you know what? If the so-called Antifa – who are anti-fascists, that’s what Antifa stand for – would go there and protest, then Antifa would get a bad reputation. [Slams hand on table] That's why when I hear that Antifa some kind of –
Goldberg interrupted to keep the focus on her supposed cleanup job because “you know, misunderstanding what people say is very big,” she lamented. “So, we want to make sure. I know they were not in the building, but they were in the mix of people at the thing,” she concluded, still trying to suggested the Nazis were tangentially a part of the event.
This latest lie about DeSantis came just 10 days after they falsely claimed he was scamming people who donated to his gubernatorial campaign with automatic recurring donations. DeSantis denounced the false accusations at the press conference.
This new round of lies against DeSantis were made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Ensure and 4imprint. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
July 25, 2022
11:04:30 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: Well, DeSantis could take his place and that's just as bad. I mean, there was a – What do you call it? This Turning Point conference with all the smoke. What, are they smoking something down there? Or it's, like -- whatever.
Anyway, they were out there. Neo-Nazis were in the front of Turning Point – out there in front of the conference with anti-Semitic slurs, and, you know, the Nazi swastika and a picture of a so-called Jewish person with exaggerated features. Just like -- like Goebbels did the Hitler – in – during the Third Reich. It’s the same thing. Right out of that same playbook. Okay? And DeSantis did not say anything about it, nothing. So, it's his sort of his rendition of good people on both sides, same idea.
So, why trade a headache for an upset stomach? Because that's what's going to happen if they get rid of Trump and put him in. It's the same thing.
(…)
11:09:49 a.m. Eastern
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So you have to read this thing.
SARA HAINES: Oh. I’ve got a legal note. The conservative group—
BEHAR: Sunny normally does this, but you're doing it.
HAINES: I know. I know. This is our knockoff lawyer. The conservative group Turning Point USA has condemned the group of neo-Nazis and said they have nothing to do with the organization.
BEHAR: Yeah, but where was DeSantis is what I want to know?
GOLDBERG: But you let them in. You let them in and you knew what they were. So you are complicit. We'll be right back.
(…)
11:15:05 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: I want to make a quick clarification about the neo-Nazis at the Turning Point event. They were outside protesters. My point was more metaphorical. You embraced them at your thing. I felt. So, they were not in the building.
HAINES: They felt invited.
BEHAR: Well, you know what? If the so-called Antifa – who are anti-fascists, that’s what Antifa stand for – would go there and protest, then Antifa would get a bad reputation. [Slams hand on table] That's why when I hear that Antifa some kind of --
GOLDBERG: But that's not -- let me just make sure everybody because, you know, misunderstanding what people say is very big.
BEHAR: Yeah, I know.
GOLDBERG: So, we want to make sure. I know they were not in the building, but they were in the mix of people at the thing.
(…)
