In the wake of House Republicans holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress and launching an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were in a tizzy Thursday Morning. They were so unhinged that they were spewing wild lies and conspiracy theories all over the place, including falsehoods that no one had ever defied a congressional subpoena before Republicans targeted by the January 6 committee.
They even seemed to accuse former co-host Meghan McCain of committing the types of crimes Hunter allegedly committed.
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg directed her anger at Republicans through the camera. “Listen, you can say a lot about the Democrats but they knew what they were going in for: high crimes and misdemeanors. You couldn't name one! You couldn't say, ‘Well, he's old. That's why we're mad.’ They couldn't name anything! I mean, what the heck?!” she shouted.
Staunchly racist and anti-Semitic Sunny Hostin, who was once a federal prosecutor, suggested “people” were not who investigators focus on when prosecuting a case. “That’s very telling because when you are prosecuting a case and investigating a case, you're not investigating a person, you're investigating a crime,” she proclaimed.
Despite being a millennial in her 30s, faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin showed that she had the political history knowledge of a Zoomer (Gen Z) when she ridiculously suggested that no one had ever defied a congressional subpoena before allies of former President Trump defied the January 6 Committee (Click “expand”):
FARAH GRIFFIN: And it feels like to me two things can be true at once. I personally think Hunter Biden should have complied with the congressional subpoena. I also think Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, Mo Brooks, McCarthy –
GOLDBERG: Can you say that one more time?
FARAH GRIFFIN: -- I also think Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, Mo Brooks, and others subpoenaed in the January 6 investigation should have complied with congressional subpoenas.
Farah Griffin might want to research former President Obama’s first attorney general, Eric Holder for an earlier example.
“They created this precedent that allows him to blow it off,” she further accused those Republicans. Goldberg interrupted her to spin Hunter’s defiance. “Well, he didn't blow it off. He says he wants to do it in public ‘cause he’s concerned,” she defended him.
The other fake Republican at the table, Ana Navarro tried to downplay Hunter’s alleged crimes as something everyone she knew in Washington, D.C. were doing and that they were no big deal. “Did he monetize on Joe Biden's last name? Yes, he did. That’s not a crime. Did Hunter Biden cheat on his taxes? Yes, he did…15 percent of Americans cheat on their taxes,” she declared, without evidence.
She also asserted that “people sitting at this table” were guilty of “influence peddl[ing]” based on their names. The show came to a grinding halt as the cast demanded to know who she was accusing. “I'm not talking currently,” she quickly stated in her defense.
If she wasn’t speaking about current cast members of the show, that really only left former Republican co-hosts Abby Huntsman and Meghan McCain.
The latter took to X (formerly Twitter) to denounce Navarro’s attack on her. “I don’t understand why my former colleagues @TheView @ABC bring me up and slander me on an almost weekly basis. It has been years - move on, I have,” McCain wrote.
I don’t understand why my former colleagues @TheView @ABC bring me up and slander me on an almost weekly basis. It has been years - move on, I have.
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) December 14, 2023
I have never been accused of a crime in my life and am a patriotic American - I would never and have never “influenced peddled”…
Adding: “I have never been accused of a crime in my life and am a patriotic American - I would never and have never “influenced peddled” in my life, let alone with foreign adversaries. Not all politicians' children are the same - and I am no Hunter Biden.”
McCain threatened legal action against the show. “All accusations are absurd, defamatory and slanderous. I will be consulting my lawyers regarding what was libeled against me on The View this morning,” she said.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
December 14, 2023
11:04:09 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Listen, you can say a lot about the Democrats but they knew what they were going in for: high crimes and misdemeanors. You couldn't name one! You couldn't say, ‘Well, he's old. That's why we're mad.’ They couldn't name anything! I mean, what the heck?!
SUNNY HOSTIN: That’s very telling because when you are prosecuting a case and investigating a case, you're not investigating a person, you're investigating a crime. And I think – Jamie Raskin, who I love. Representative Raskin, he was a former prosecutor and he said, ‘the Biden impeachment investigation isn't a whodunit. It is a what is it? It’s like an Agatha Christie novel where the mystery is what's the crime?” And that gets tedious very fast.
And he’s absolutely right. It’s not the way you prosecute cases, it’s not the way you investigate cases. And it’s just so transparent that this is just political retribution. They're playing politics.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And it feels like to me two things can be true at once. I personally think Hunter Biden should have complied with the congressional subpoena. I also think Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, Mo Brooks, McCarthy –
GOLDBERG: Can you say that one more time.
FARAH GRIFFIN: -- I also think Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, Mo Brooks, and others subpoenaed in the January 6 investigation should have complied with congressional subpoenas. They created this precedent that allows him to blow it off. Additionally, I don’t –
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG (interrupting Farah Griffin): Well, he didn't blow it off. He says he wants to do it in public ‘cause he’s concerned.
FARAH GRIFFIN: But their response to that, because I reached out to the Oversight Committee is essentially that they first always start with a deposition. They would have minority staff there – meaning the Democrats – and then they could go to an open hearing. But all that aside, Hunter Biden, yes, I think he was engaged in corruption. I do think the charges against him by the Department of Justice are very serious. I have not seen one shred of evidence that it's tied to Joe Biden. That's what it comes down to to me.
And by the way, someone who is no Joe Biden fan, Steve Doocy on Fox News has been hammering James Comer. Give me one thing. One piece of evidence. Otherwise it's a waste of taxpayer dollars.
ANA NAVARRO: Joe Biden's crime is being Hunter Biden's father and being Hunter Biden's very loving father, very good father, very supportive father.
Look, did Hunter Biden influence peddle on his last name, yes, he did. So, did half of Washington. People sitting at this table did it.
[Laughter]
FARAH GRIFFIN: Who at this table did it?
NAVARRO: Did Hunter Biden -- did Hunter Biden cheat on his taxes? Yes, he did. So have—
FARAH GRIFFIN: Who at this table peddled on their last name?
HOSTIN: I didn’t.
NAVARRO: I'm not talking currently.
[Laughter]
FARAH GRIFFIN: We just wanted to clear our names.
[Laughter]
SARA HAINES: I was like: do I have a claim to fame that I am not using?!
NAVARRO: Can I go back to my point now that you guys have caught on?
GOLDBERG: Now that we’ve cleared it up. It took a while.
NAVARRO: All right. Did he use his last name to make money to -- did he monetize on Joe Biden's last name? Yes, he did. That’s not a crime. Did Hunter Biden cheat on his taxes? Yes, he did. So, he has admitted it. He paid it back. He paid it back with $600,000 penalty. 15 percent of Americans cheat on their taxes.
GOLDBERG: Say that again.
NAVARRO: 15.5 percent of Americans cheat on their taxes. And you know how many get prosecuted? Less than one percent.
GOLDBERG: Talk about the one who used to run the country who cheated on his -- who didn't pay his taxes!
(…)
