The Trump administration’s deportation of several violent Venezuelan gang members who were in the country illegally made the liberal ladies of ABC News’s The View very upset, Monday morning. Co-host Sunny Hostin called it a “constitutional crisis” while Ana Navarro suggested it was an attack on the Venezuelan Americans who voted for President Trump (she also basked in their purported misery). But moderator Whoopi Goldberg took the most factually inaccurate stand when she erroneously claimed it was evidence that any American could find themselves deported by Trump.
As they were nearing the commercial break, Goldberg told the audience to “keep your eyes open” and suggested it was dangerous to be on the streets of America, “because if they can just come up and take somebody because they've made a decision that you're supposed to be that person, any one of us could find ourselves being deported to some country we've never been.”
“Don't give him any ideas, girl,” fake Republican Ana Navarro pleaded with Goldberg.
She went on to bizarrely whine and question why “you” have her personal information. It was unclear why the “you” was she was talking about since the federal government already had everyone’s information at it was nothing new under the Trump administration.
Goldberg and Hostin then teamed up to assert, without evidence, that Trump and Republicans were “taking” away the right to free speech:
GOLDBERG: Listen. It is very clear to me that if we don't continue to say, we want -- listen. I understand you want to clean out all the bad stuff. I get it, but why do you now have access to my personal information? I get what the things you're trying to do. I don't understand why you're taking my stuff, my person -- not mine personally, but each and every one of you.
HOSTIN: And your constitutional right to free speech.
GOLDBERG: And your constitutional rights of free speech. Which, you know, everybody says, you know, ‘You never let us say anything. We're, you know, conservatives” [in a mocking voice].
“And, in fact, you're doing the same thing you're accusing everyone else of doing,” she chided Republicans and asserting that their speech had never been infringed, “and you're doing it in a way we've never seen before because very few people have kept you from speaking out.”
Whoopi, just because you say the term “in fact” doesn’t mean what you’re claiming is true. Especially on The View where you guy make up wild conspiracy theories and push them via the ABC News brand.
Last year, Goldberg insanely claimed Republicans “want to bring slavery back.” She teamed up with First Lady Jill Biden to assert “we will lose all of our rights” if the GOP won the election. There was also the time Goldberg lost her mind and started screaming about Trump supposedly wanting to outlaw interracial marriage and redistributing the white spouse.
Clearly, ABC News wasn’t concerned about the conspiracy theories and lies Goldberg was pushing because none of that, including her claims on Monday, received a legal note to distance the “news outlet” from the claims.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
March 17, 2024
11:21:18 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: And – You just got to keep your eyes open, y'all, because if they can just come up and take somebody because they've made a decision that you're supposed to be that person, any one of us could find ourselves being deported to some country we've never been.
ANA NAVARRO: Don't give him any ideas, girl.
GOLDBERG: Listen. It is very clear to me that if we don't continue to say, we want -- listen. I understand you want to clean out all the bad stuff. I get it, but why do you now have access to my personal information? I get what the things you're trying to do. I don't understand why you're taking my stuff, my person -- not mine personally, but each and every one of you.
SUNNY HOSTIN: And your constitutional right to free speech.
GOLDBERG: And your constitutional rights of free speech. Which, you know, everybody says, you know, ‘You never let us say anything. We're, you know, conservatives” [in a mocking voice]. And, in fact, you're doing the same thing you're accusing everyone else of doing, and you're doing it in a way we've never seen before because very few people have kept you from speaking out. But this is where we are now.
Well, we're right here now, and you see I've beat the music. I beat the music.
[Cheers and applause]
We'll be right back.
