During Wednesday’s edition of The View, the cackling coven cheered a New York judge for putting a limited gag order on former President Trump after he lashed out at a law clerk on social media; claiming she was having an affair with Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY). According to moderator Whoopi Goldberg, the criticism was somehow a threat on her life. Meanwhile, The View had been home to the type of anti-conservative hatred and false narratives that could lead a liberal extremist to take matters into their own hands.
“But, yesterday I asked a question about when you-know-who would be held accountable for his threats and trash talk to people, and It's been answered. The judge presiding over his fraud case slapped a limited gag order on him,” Goldberg boasted as the liberal audience erupted in cheers and applause. “And then ordered him to delete a social media post where he attacked a law clerk.”
Without describing how Trump “attacked” the clerk, she wondered “why is he continuously allowed” to threaten elected officials, “because I thought if it was an elected official those threats were taken very differently and dealt with very differently.”
Racist co-host Sunny Hostin backed her up, not by explaining how Trump was threatening the state-level clerk but rather by talking about the penalties for lying to federal prosecutors:
They are taken very differently. If you lie to a federal prosecutor that's five years imprisonment; the potential. If you obstruct justice, if you threaten it's ten years in a federal prison. Now, state courts change – they're different from state to state.
“When you threaten people, when you suggest that people do things to other people who are elected officials, that's against the law. It's against the law,” Goldberg went on to lecture Trump. She also asserted that what Trump was doing was “suggesting people hurt Letitia James,” the Democratic attorney general for New York.
What made Goldberg’s outrage particularly rich was when she whined that Trump was going after prosecutors “The same way you went after Kathy Griffin because you didn't like what she did.” And what “comedian” Kathy Griffin did was channel ISIS and pose with a fake severed Trump head covered in blood.
In recent memory, The View had made multiple disparaging comments directed at Republicans and right-leaning organizations that one could legitimately argue would put them in the crosshairs of a liberal extremist with delusions of grandeur.
For instance, in March, they hosted leftist extremist Jane Fonda who called for the “murder” of all pro-lifers. They claimed she was joking. Later that month, a transgender terrorist murdered innocent kids in a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee and The View tried to deny the fact the shooter hated Christians.
They also encouraged angry liberal mobs to target the homes of conservative justices. “But it also shows Alito what it feels like to lose your freedom of choice. He cannot leave the house easily. So maybe that's a good lesson for them,” co-host Joy Behar proclaimed at the time. After an assassination attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh and his family was foiled, The View decried efforts to increase their security detail.
They also suggested Fox News was responsible for “recruiting domestic terrorists” and maligned the U.S. military by suggesting they were filled to the brim with people “radicalized” by Fox News.
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ABC’s The View
11:15:56 a.m. Eastern
October 4, 2023WHOOPI GOLDBERG: But, yesterday I asked a question about when you-know-who would be held accountable for his threats and trash talk to people, and It's been answered. The judge presiding over his fraud case slapped a limited gag order on him.
[Cheers and applause]
And then ordered him to delete a social media post where he attacked a law clerk. But my question is this, why is he continuously allowed -- because I thought if it was an elected official those threats were taken very differently and dealt with very differently.
SUNNY HOSTIN: They are taken very differently. If you lie to a federal prosecutor that's five years imprisonment; the potential. If you obstruct justice, if you threaten it's ten years in a federal prison. Now, state courts change – they're different from state to state.
(…)
11:19:34 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: Let me tell you what he actually has to keep in mind. When you threaten people, when you suggest that people do things to other people who are elected officials, that's against the law. It's against the law.
SARA HAINES: The laws haven't stopped him yet.
GOLDBERG: People -- Well, it hasn't, but that's why I'm going to keep saying it until somebody says, ‘Listen, you are suggesting people hurt Letitia James.’
HOSTIN: It's on the way.
GOLDBERG: You are –
JOY BEHAR: And General Milley and Mike Pence.
GOLDBERG: And we're not putting up with this. The same way you went after Kathy --
HOSTIN: Hochul.
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: Oh my God, I can’t think of her name. The stand up, the comic.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Oh, Griffin.
BEHAR: Kathy Griffin.
GOLDBERG: The same way you went after Kathy Griffin because you didn't like what she did, that's the same way people need to recognize we need to do the same and let you know you're not allowed to do that anymore.
[Cheers and applause]
You can't do that anymore. It’s like we said to her, you can't do this again. You cannot do this anymore and I believe they're going to stop you from doing it.
We'll be right back.
