Desperate to shift the public’s attention away from President Biden’s collapsing mental faculties, ABC’s The View kicked off their Friday episode by parroting the Biden campaign’s fearmongering talking points about Project 2025; following Biden’s lead from his train wreck of press conference the previous evening. According to The View, it was the plan to subjugate America and “starve” children.
Ignoring how Biden had introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “President Putin” at the NATO summit, and how he somehow confused his vice president, Kamala Harris, with former President Trump, moderator Joy Behar wanted them to focus on something completely different. “So, has anyone out there heard of Project 2025? You can clap if you've heard of it,” she instructed the audience.
“Good. See, our audience is very advanced. They read, they know. But a lot of people don't know about it, so I'm here to tell you what it is,” Behar praised them after they were done clapping.
According to Behar’s hysteria, which she presented without evidence, “It's a far-right plan for destroying democracy that Trump's team wants to implement on day one. Let me count the ways. They want to ban abortion, starve schoolchildren, eliminating breakfast and lunch for school kids, they want to have mass deportations of immigrants, they want to gut health care.”
“This is all just for starters,” she proclaimed. “It's the blueprint for a fascist regime…”
She was followed by staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) who had her own hysterics to spread. She asserted (also without evidence) that Project 2025 would create “a very dark, dark vision” of America.
“I mean, it becomes a dictatorship and he becomes the king, the Supreme Court has already anointed him as king because they've made him immune,” she falsely added.
What supposedly scared her most was that Trump claimed he didn’t know anything about it. Yet, they were so petrified by Project 2025 that they were able to joke that Trump was incapable of reading its 900 pages:
HOSTIN: What's most, I think, troubling to me is that Trump pretends and has distanced himself from Project 2025. He has pretended that he knows nothing about it. Yet, CNN --
BEHAR: With all due respect, it is a 700-page thing.
HOSTIN: 900.
BEHAR: And wait, there are to pictures.
HOSTIN: That’s true, there are no pictures. So, it's possible that he hasn't read all 900 pages.
BEHAR: You think?
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
July 12, 2024
11:02:16 a.m. EasternJOY BEHAR: So, has anyone out there heard of project 2025? You can clap if you've heard of it.
[Applause]
Good. See, our audience is very advanced. They read, they know. But a lot of people don't know about it, so I'm here to tell you what it is.
It's a far-right plan for destroying democracy that Trump's team wants to implement on day one. Let me count the ways. They want to ban abortion, starve schoolchildren, eliminating breakfast and lunch for school kids, they want to have mass deportations of immigrants, they want to gut health care.
This is all just for starters, okay?
And this is part of their platform. It was co-written by Trump minions like Peter Navarro, another convicted felon, hello.
ANA NAVARRO: No relation [Holds up a pen].
[Laughter]
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Currently in jail.
BEHAR: The fabulous Ben Carson, remember him?
(…)
BEHAR: And if you think they won't do it, just think about the Supreme Court. They just said Trump has immunity. They're dismantling a lot of stuff about the environment already. God knows what else they'll come up with in the Supreme Court, so don't think thats [sic] this won't happen. It's the blueprint for a fascist regime and what disturbs you the most about it, pray tell?
SUNNY HOSTIN: I think for me, while everything is very disturbing because it's a very dark, dark vision of what America could look like and would look like under a Trump administration. I mean, it becomes a dictatorship and he becomes the king, the Supreme Court has already anointed him as king because they've made him immune.
What's most, I think, troubling to me is that Trump pretends and has distanced himself from Project 2025. He has pretended that he knows nothing about it. Yet, CNN --
BEHAR: With all due respect, it is a 700-page thing.
SARA HAINES: It’s 900.
HOSTIN: 900.
BEHAR: And wait, there are to pictures.
HOSTIN: That’s true, there are no pictures. So, it's possible that he hasn't read all 900 pages.
BEHAR: You think?
(…)
