Only after Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that there was no client list linked to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, which divided elements of America’s political right, did ABC’s The View really care enough to talk about it. Of course, they used it as an opportunity to smear their favorite hate object: President Donald Trump. Far-left ABC News co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin used part of Wednesday’s episode to suggest, without evidence, that Trump was on the client list.
With moderator Whoopi Goldberg teeing the segment out to mock and further drive divisions within the MAGA coalition, Hostin was the first to hint that Trump was involved in Epstein’s pedophile ring:
HOSTIN: I'm not saying that this indicates that Trump had any involvement in Epstein's crime, but there are videos of Trump with Epstein, there are pictures with Trump with Epstein.
JOY BEHAR: Photographs.
HOSTIN: He was on flight logs of Epstein's plane. I think seven times, all of that has been widely reported and all of a sudden, he doesn't want to talk about Epstein and his friend is a creep or his colleague.
“I don’t know. Not colleague. I don't know what to say,” she added.
Behar followed up by showing off her own rhetorical conspiracy theory corkboard and telling the audience “you guys do the math”:
He calls him a creep in this particular video. By the way, he seems very defensive to me in this particular thing. But besides that, in 2020 - 2002, he told New York magazine, Trump, ‘I've known Jeff for 15 years, terrific guy,’ he said. ‘He's a lot of fun to be with. It's even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do and many of them are on the younger side.’ Okay, that's Trump. That's trump in 2002. Today, he calls him a creep. You guys do the math! Okay?
This kind of guilt by association wasn't employed against former President Bill Clinton when he was on The View in June. He too had some sort of friendship with Epstein.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back by noting that, “It's been widely reported that he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago years after that. That’s documented. Before he was in political life before people had strong feelings about Donald Trump.”
“Yeah. That’s why I don’t want to call him a friend or colleague. Maybe they had a falling out,” Hostin agreed.
Upset with Trump’s frustration with a reporter asking him about the list ahead of a major cabinet meeting, co-host Sara Haines bristled:
And when Donald Trump asks, ‘why do people still care about Epstein?’ There have been problems with pedophilia for years in different institutions. When you even watch The Keepers on Netflix it was proven it was men in power, doctors, police officers, people with money, people in the government that were part of it, which is why it was covered up and these victims were double victimized and never found.
“So, people like me care not because I care who is on -- I don't believe there's a list. I don't care who it is, we need to uncover this abuse of power in this continued victimization of young people,” she declared.
Goldberg seemingly wanted to add something herself, given the grimace on her face, she stopped herself and went to a commercial break.
There was no legal note after they leveled their accusations against Trump.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
July 9, 2025
11:19:28 a.m. Eastern(…)
SUNNY HOSTIN: Trump saying, ‘why are we still talking about Epstein?’ He talked about Epstein endlessly!
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Endlessly. Well, that was my point.
HOSTIN: Not to mention, I'm not saying that this indicates that Trump had any involvement in Epstein's crime, but there are videos of Trump with Epstein, there are pictures with Trump with Epstein.
JOY BEHAR: Photographs.
HOSTIN: He was on flight logs of Epstein's plane. I think seven times, all of that has been widely reported and all of a sudden, he doesn't want to talk about Epstein and his friend is a creep or his colleague
BEHAR: That's my point.
HOSTIN: I don’t know. Not colleague. I don't know what to say.
BEHAR: He calls him a creep in this particular video. By the way, he seems very defensive to me in this particular thing. But besides that, in 2020 - 2002, he told New York magazine, Trump, ‘I've known Jeff for 15 years, terrific guy,’ he said. ‘He's a lot of fun to be with. It's even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do and many of them are on the younger side.’ Okay, that's Trump. That's trump in 2002. Today, he calls him a creep. You guys do the math! Okay?
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: It's been widely reported that he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago years after that. That’s documented. Before he was in political life before people had strong feelings about Donald Trump.
HOSTIN: Yeah. That’s why I don’t want to call him a friend or colleague. Maybe they had a falling out.
SARA HAINES: And when Donald Trump asks, ‘why do people still care about Epstein?’ There have been problems with pedophilia for years in different institutions. When you even watch The Keepers on Netflix it was proven it was men in power, doctors, police officers, people with money, people in the government that were part of it, which is why it was covered up and these victims were double victimized and never found.
So, people like me care not because I care who is on -- I don't believe there's a list. I don't care who it is, we need to uncover this abuse of power in this continued victimization of young people.
[Applause]
GOLDBERG: We'll be right back.
