In their first live show after the Easter weekend, the leftist extremists of ABC’s The View kicked off their Tuesday show enraged that former President Trump reposted a “violent image” of a truck decal featuring a fake image of President Biden alive and hog-tied in the bed. But in the midst of their pearl-clutching, the cast defended their friend Kathy Griffin’s photoshoot holding up an effigy of Trump’s bloody severed head; suggesting she simply “did what she does as a comic.”
“You-know-who spent the most sacred weekend on the Catholic calendar posting rants about the judge in his New York fraud case making false claims about the judge's daughter and reposting a violent image of President Biden that we are not going to show you here today,” moderator Whoopi Goldberg indignantly proclaimed.
She demanded to know: “Why does he keep getting away with it?” She called the truck decal “so violent” and asked: “What's the difference between what Kathy Griffin did and what he did? I don't understand.”
Realizing they were essentially attacking their friend, who was on the show just last week, co-host Joy Behar argued that “it’s worse” for Trump to share such images because Griffin was just “a comedian.”
Goldberg also defended Griffin’s ‘comedy’ and suggested that Trump should get a visit from the Secret Service like she did. Staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) hinted that anything less was somehow evidence of a two-tiered justice system:
GOLDBERG: She did what she does as a comic but are the Secret Service going to be visiting him and giving him a warning about putting violent imagery?
SUNNY HOSTIN: Well, they should.
GOLDBERG: Why wouldn't they?
HOSTIN: Everyone should be treated equally under the law.
GOLDBERG: We keep saying that.
HOSTIN: And we keep on saying that.
The View cast still refused to explain what the punchline to Griffin’s so-called “joke” was, much like when Behar claimed liberal extremist Jane Fonda was “just kidding” when she called for the “murder” of all pro-lifers on the show.
Hostin went on to lament how “We're missing…the Obama statesmanship” and how “Trump has given people permission, license to be politically violent.”
In reality, The View encouraged their fellow liberal extremists to target the homes of the conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, which culminated in an assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh and his family. They then decried calls for increased security after the attack. They’ve also downplayed terrorist attacks against pro-life organizations.
The audience was also treated to another one of Behar’s revisionist history lessons when she claimed: “...if you know history political violence precedes a fascist dictatorship,” as if when communists came to power it was a peaceful transition. Even the American Revolution had political violence in the form of the tar and feathering of British officials.
In February, Joy “I know history” Behar claimed NATO was the military alliance that fought Hitler and the Nazis.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
April 2, 2024
11:02:13 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: You-know-who spent the most sacred weekend on the Catholic calendar posting rants about the judge in his New York fraud case making false claims about the judge's daughter and reposting a violent image of President Biden that we are not going to show you here today. These rants violate the court's gag order, so why does he keep getting away with it? I mean, that image is so violent. What's the difference between what Kathy Griffin did and what he did? I don't understand.
[Applause]
JOY BEHAR: It's worse for him really.
GOLDBERG: Well, I mean –
BEHAR: She's a comedian.
GOLDBERG: She did what she does as a comic but are the Secret Service going to be visiting him and giving him a warning about putting violent imagery?
SUNNY HOSTIN: Well, they should.
GOLDBERG: Why wouldn't they.
HOSTIN: Everyone should be treated equally under the law.
GOLDBERG: We keep saying that.
HOSTIN: And we keep on saying that. And that's what I was supported of the bond he got sort of being –
uh-oh. Someone is speaking to us. The lights are flickering.
GOLDBERG: Does anybody else see the lighting flickering? Okay. Okay.
HOSTIN: I was supportive of the fact that his bond -- did you do anything bad this weekend, Whoopi? What's going on?
[Laughter]
I was very supportive of the fact that the bond was lowered because I think that that's how you would treat everyone equally, you know, bonds are supposed to not be punitive. But I will say this, you know, Trump has given people permission, license to be politically violent.
BEHAR: Yeah.
HOSTIN: And this is from the very, very beginning. He was campaigning for the presidency. He even said somewhere I think if you find him, you know, hurt that person. Punch them, punch the hell out of them and I will pay for it. I will pay for your defense.
And so what we're missing now is this -- the statesmanship that we've always been used to, you know, the presidential office being above reproach. We're missing, in my opinion, the Obama statesmanship, we’re missing the Clinton statesmanship, the Hillary Clinton statesmanship and its behavior that seems to come from the top down. People are saying, “Well, it's the January 6th folks.” It's even worse when it comes from the president or the potential president of the United States of America.
[Applause]
BEHAR: Well, it seems to me if you know history political violence precedes a fascist dictatorship.
GOLDBEGR: Always.
BEHAR: I mean, just look at World War II and you will a see. The Nazi thugs were beating up Jews in the street and everyone just looked the other way, and then we had Hitler and millions were killed. I'm not saying that's going to happen here but I'm just saying that there's political violence does precede a fascist country.
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