ABC News co-host Joy Behar seemed to call for President Trump to be the target of a Democratic Party coup during Tuesday’s edition of The View. Behar’s crash out came in the wake of the apparent security breach involving a Signal chat group of members of Trump’s cabinet. Despite Trump not being involved in the chat at all, Behar wanted him to bear the responsibility and demanded Democrats do something to remove him from office.
“Trump said it's the only glitch in two months. That's not true,” Behar proclaimed as she went on to shriek about other things the administrations had done:
[L]ike remember when he fired people who control the nuclear stockpile. That was one of the glitches. (…) Remember when he accidentally cut funding for Ebola outbreak. (…) When he sent back the stock market doing the hokey-pokey, like you called it, so that we’re worried about where to put our money if we want to retire. (…) Or when they blamed Ukraine for getting attacked. They said – they said – He said Ukraine attacked Russia basically or that they were to blame for the attack. That's four. So, that's in two months.
“This guy has to go! I'm sorry,” Behar demanded as she called on Democrats to act. “I'm sorry. It's done! Come on! Schumer and these Democrats —”
So Joy, how were Democrats supposed to get Trump out of office?
Democrats didn’t have the ability have the ability to impeach Trump since they didn’t control the House or the Senate; and since moderator Whoopi Goldberg proclaimed during their conversation that “we’re not dumb,” they totally knew that fact. They certainly wouldn’t get Trump’s cabinet to turn on him and invoke the 25th Amendment. That really only left violence as the solution to what Behar saw as a problem.
Behar then went on to lash out at Republicans. “And by the way, I just want to say one thing to Republican Congress, you people need to look in the mirror! Is this the country you really want to have? Come on!” she decried.
Elsewhere in their conversation about the group chat, Goldberg and co-host Sunny Hostin floated the idea of sending members of Trump’s cabinet to prison over the text messages to each other:
GOLDBERG: What should happen here? Should we be saying, lock them up?
HOSTIN: I would like to answer on the legal piece. I would like to answer on the legal piece because they may have violated several provisions of the Espionage Act, which governs the handling of national defense information. And so, what happened here apparently, in my view, ran afoul of both laws that require the retention of records and more importantly, laws related to classified information.
“A security breach this significant requires a thorough investigation, people can go to jail for something like this. There are several consequences to it,” Hostin touted.
It’s worth noting that Hostin proclaimed what she was saying to be “my view,” but she was reading from a talking points card.
Pretend independent Sara Haines apparently thought she caught DNI Tulsi Gabbard in the gotcha moment during a congressional hearing going on the same day. Haines bizarrely took issued with Gabbard not wanting to discuss classified information during the televised hearing:
And Tulsi Gabbard wrote – or tweeted March 14th, quote, “Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.” But I was just watching her in a CNN hearing and – on CNN in the hearing and she was saying that she couldn't comment.
“So, I'm guessing those words might be haunting her earlier than she thought,” she chided.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
March 25, 2025
11:04:40 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: So, the question is –
[Laughter]
Is he going to make good on this promise?
JOY BEHAR: Oh, yeah.
GOLDBERG: What should happen here? Should we be saying, lock them up?
[Cheers and applause]
I mean, you know what I mean.
SUNNY HOSTIN: I would like to answer on the legal piece. I would like to answer on the legal piece because they may have violated several provisions of the Espionage Act, which governs the handling of national defense information. And so, what happened here apparently, in my view [as she reads from a talking points card], ran afoul of both laws that require the retention of records and more importantly, laws related to classified information. A security breach this significant requires a thorough investigation, people can go to jail for something like this. There are several consequences to it.
(…)
11:07:49 a.m. Eastern
SARA HAINES: And Tulsi Gabbard wrote – or tweeted March 14th, quote, “Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.” But I was just watching her in a CNN hearing and – on CNN in the hearing and she was saying that she couldn't comment. So, I'm guessing those words might be haunting her earlier than she thought.
(…)
11:15:08 a.m. Eastern
BEHAR: Trump said it's the only glitch in two months. That's not true.
[Laughter]
In two months --
HAINES: He called it a glitch?
BEHAR: He's taken us to plenty of disaster areas like remember when he fired people who control the nuclear stockpile. That was one of the glitches.
GOLDBERG: Was that a glitch or was that something wrong with the internet?
BEHAR: Well --
HOSTIN: He did that.
BEHAR: Remember when he accidentally cut funding for Ebola outbreak.
GOLDBERG: Yes, I remember that.
BEHAR: When he sent back the stock market doing the hokey-pokey, like you called it, so that we’re worried about where to put our money if we want to retire.
GOLDBERG: It’s a lot of glitching.
BEHAR: Or when they blamed Ukraine for getting attacked. They said – they said – He said Ukraine attacked Russia basically or that they were to blame for the attack. That's four. So, that's in two months.
This guy has to go! I'm sorry.
[Applause]
BEHAR: I'm sorry. It's done! Come on!
HAINES: One interesting thing if you –
BEHAR: Chuck Schumer and these Democrats – And by the way, I just want to say one thing to Republican Congress, you people need to look in the mirror! Is this the country you really want to have? Come on!
(…)
