As part of the launch of her new book, former First Lady Melania Trump put out a video where she broke with pro-lifers and spouted her own pro-abortion stance. But according to some of the cast members of ABC’s The View, Melania couldn’t possibly hold personal opinions that run contrary to her husbands or the political party she’s not a member of. Instead, they suggested that it was part of some GOP plot to trick voters about the Republican position on abortion.
The suggestion that Melania’s position was just “a big scam” came from co-host Joy Behar. But she couldn’t get her argument straight. She flip-flopped between claiming it was ploy to help her husband get elected but also, at the same time, she hated him:
So, 62 percent of Americans oppose overthrowing Roe v. Wade, 62 percent. The Republican Party knows this. I think they put her up to this. I think it's a big scam. They put her out there, you know, as the face of, like, the American population that wants to have abortion rights, and they figure, well, maybe, you know, she'll talk him into – The only problem she doesn't talk to him.
“But besides that, I think that this is just a big lie. It’s another lie from that area. Don't buy it,” she proclaimed.
Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that “even though it was written a while ago,” the release of Melania’s opinion was “strategic” to the election. “I think they think this is going to give Republicans permission or independence to be like, ‘oh, I guess I could vote for him because people who support abortion can,’” she said.
But she also pointed out that “this actually doesn't put her out of step with all modern Republican first ladies. Laura Bush, Barbara Bush were all actually pro-choice themselves and had declared that on the record before.”
She then dubbed this another “hypocrisy” of the Republican Party since the story didn’t cause them to abandon their candidate a month before the election. “But in the Trump-era if any other national Republican candidate running for president, if their spouse came out and said, ‘I am pro-choice and I even support late term abortion,’ their career would be over,” she huffed.
Co-host Sunny Hostin used dangerous language when suggesting what Melania did was actually her trying to hurt her husband. “I also think that she wants to take him out! She does not want to be the first lady. Anymore,” she proclaimed, just weeks after the second assassination attempt on former President Trump’s life.
Pretend moderate co-host Sara Haines proposed that “Trump probably feels like Melania” but because “he made promises and deals with the Devil” he now “has to pay up” to the pro-lifers who helped elect him the first time.
As NewsBusters has previously shown, Haines is not only pro-abortion, she’s seemingly anti-pro-lifer. Last December, she suggested it was “God’s will” that pro-lifers die rather than receive life-saving cancer treatments.
In recent days, Melania had become something of a common topic of discuss for the liberal ladies and some of their past claims contradict what they’re saying now.
A whole week prior, they were mocking the Trump marriage for being dysfunctional; which doesn’t seem to fit their new narrative that she was doing this to help him. Two weeks ago, they were trying to say Melania represented the entire Republican Party after racy photos of her resurfaced.
On a related note, moderator Whoopi Goldberg had the nerve to "all of those Christians and Catholics out there" that the only "human being" impacted by abortion is the mom. "Is this the way Jesus wants you to be? Is this the way Jesus wants you to act?" she chided, going on to suggest they didn’t care about the struggles people go through.
Whoopi lectures "all of those Christians and Catholics out there" that the only "human being" impacted by abortion is the mom.
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 3, 2024
"Is this the way Jesus wants you to be? Is this the way Jesus wants you to act?"
She also suggests that religious folks don't care about folks' struggles pic.twitter.com/8L6JSg8hle
The real hypocrisy comes from The View as their framing of Melania rapidly shifts depending on what’s needed in the moment. And while they wanted to keep the focus on the Republican candidate’s spouse, they refused to talk about Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff being accused of slapping a former girlfriend after drinking heavily during a date.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
October 3, 2024
11:04:20 a.m. Eastern(…)
SARA HAINES: I actually think Trump probably feels like Melania does but made a lot of promises – cause he used to be pro-choice and he used to be more of a Democrat. I think he made promises and deals with the Devil and has to pay up and that’s why he can't quite figure out which way he's going.
But I do think this could affect enthusiasm for people that are voting on this one issue.
JOY BEHAR: So, 62 percent of Americans oppose overthrowing Roe v. Wade, 62 percent. The Republican Party knows this. I think they put her up to this. I think it's a big scam. They put her out there, you know, as the face of, like, the American population that wants to have abortion rights, and they figure, well, maybe, you know, she'll talk him into – The only problem she doesn't talk to him.
[Laughter]
But – Probably. But besides that, I think that this is just a big lie. It’s another lie from that area. Don't buy it.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: By the way, I bet this is coming to a Kamala Harris ad near you very soon that Melania Trump is in favor of not just abortion rights, she goes on to defend late term abortion. She goes into great detail in the book about it.
HAINES: Cause she understands why less than one percent do that, just to be clear.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Yes. And I think that it's a couple of things. Well, for one, this actually doesn't put her out of step with all modern Republican first ladies. Laura Bush, Barbara Bush were all actually pro-choice themselves and had declared that on the record before.
But in the Trump-era if any other national Republican candidate running for president, if their spouse came out and said, ‘I am pro-choice and I even support late term abortion,’ their career would be over. But underscores the hypocrisy with Trump in that just nothing matters within the Republican Party at this point.
BEHAR: Nothing. No.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I think it's twofold. I agree. I think it's strategic even though it was written a while ago. I think they think this is going to give Republicans permission or independence to be like, ‘oh, I guess I could vote for him because people who support abortion can’ but it's also money. Who was going to buy this book outside of MAGA die-hards. But now it's buzzy, now we're talking about it because she's putting stuff out that’s more interesting. So –
BEHAR: You agree with me.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I do agree with you.
HOSTIN: I have a different take.
BEHAR: All right. Well, go right ahead, missy.
HOSTIN: I think she – I think she hates him.
BEHAR: Yeah. Well, yeah.
HOSTIN: Okay, so we can all agree on that.
BEHAR: That’s a given.
HOSTIN: That's a given. I also think that she wants to take him out! She does not want to be the first lady. Anymore.
[Applause]
BEHAR: They agree with you.
HOSTIN: She doesn’t want to be the first lady.
(…)
