Former President Trump literally getting shot in the head wasn’t enough to get the ladies of ABC’s The View to stop engaging in stochastic terrorism, via incendiary rhetoric that incites people to violence. They insisted that their claims of Trump ending the country if elected were the “truth” and were said with good “intention,” thus were above reproach and didn’t need to be curtailed.

Following a soundbite of President Biden falsely claiming he doesn’t use inciting rhetoric against his political opponent (he recently said to put a “bulls-eye” on Trump), moderator Whoopi Goldberg (back from her latest bought of COVID) suggested the incendiary rhetoric didn’t come from her side. “So, is he right about there being a huge difference in the rhetoric coming out from either side?” she asked the table.

Staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) parroted Biden’s lies about not being dangerously hyperbolic; insisting that “calling out the truth is not turning up the heat.”

“Tone matters, words matter, but facts matter too,” she argued. “And, so, if you see behavior, or you see policy, or you see rhetoric that is inappropriate and improper, I don't think we should be silent about that because silence can be complicity.”

 

 

A couple minutes later, pretend independent Sara Haines defended their stochastic terrorism because they had a good “intention,” thus their rhetoric was (D)ifferent:

I also think, though, when we're speaking of rhetoric and engaging, it's your intention. Because you see President Biden, and the way I see a lot of those people, they're saying, “We gotta win at the polls.” It's not, “We've gotta storm the Capitol.” Like, there’s a difference where, are you inciting mobs and followers and saying, “Come with me, let's do this,” or are you saying “Change matters, let's go use our voice at the ballot box.” And I see a very clear difference in the rhetoric.

“Well, thank God there's so much tape out there of what rhetoric sounds like,” Goldberg proclaimed in agreement.

Instead of saying that now was the time for anti-Trump side to tamp down their dangerous rhetoric, faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin this was “an opportunity for the former president to take the temperature down on Thursday and show that in his remarks, if he's capable of that.” She didn’t even say this was something both sides should do.

Goldberg, who spits whenever she says Trump’s name, cast doubt on Trump ability to preach a message of unity after getting shot in the head. “That’s what he’ll do. I don’t know if he’ll stay with it, you know. He’ll start that way and then he’ll lose his mind and it’ll start again,” she scoffed.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
7/16/2024
11:16:46 AM EST

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So, is he right about there being a huge difference in the rhetoric coming out from either side?

SUNNY HOSTIN: I think so. I mean, I think one of the other things he said was, “How do you talk about the threat to democracy” – which is real – “when a president says things like he says?” – meaning the former president. “Do you just not say anything because it may incite somebody? I have not engaged in that rhetoric,” Biden continued. “My opponent is the one that has engaged in that rhetoric.” 

And, so, I just think that calling out the truth is not turning up the heat, right, and I think it's really important. Um, tone matters, words matter, but facts matter too. And, so, if you see behavior, or you see policy, or you see rhetoric that is inappropriate and improper, I don't think we should be silent about that -

JOY BEHAR: No!

HOSTIN: -because silence can be complicity.

BEHAR: Yes.

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11:18:25 AM EST

SARA HAINES: I also think, though, when we're speaking of rhetoric and engaging, it's your intention. Because you see President Biden, and the way I see a lot of those people, they're saying, “We gotta win at the polls.” It's not, “We've gotta storm the Capitol.” Like, there’s a difference where, are you inciting mobs and followers and saying, “Come with me, let's do this,” or are you saying “Change matters, let's go use our voice at the ballot box.” And I see a very clear difference in the rhetoric.

BEHAR: So, do you now believe he should not step down? ‘Cause you said he should.

HAINES: No, I’m–what I'm waiting for is, I don't know, still to this day, if he can win in November. That was my message. I will be voting for him. I'm letting those conversations play out as they will because I will support him if he's on the ballot and I will support anyone else that they were–if they were to select someone else.

BEHAR: Right, okay.

GOLDBERG: Well, thank God there's so much tape out there of what rhetoric sounds like.

HOSTIN: Yeah.

BEHAR: Do you think they show it on every channel, though? I don’t know if they show this stuff on Fox.

GOLDBERG: I don't–I don’t know but, you know…

HAINES: I think they do.

GOLDBERG: I think most people recognize -

BEHAR: I don’t watch it.

GOLDBERG: - bad stuff when they hear it.

HOSTIN: Yes.

GOLDBERG: They hear stuff and they say, “Oh, this is not good. I don't want that.”

BEHAR: I know, but…

GOLDBERG: Nobody wants that. 

BEHAR: A lot of people say, “I don't believe he said that,” though. I’ve read this, like -

GOLDBERG: Well, I–you know what, that–there's nothing you can do. Cops and people and–we all have to, like, work together, you know. The cops have the cameras. You gotta trust the camera. If you see it happen, if you're watching it, if you're listening to it, if you're watching somebody's lips move and you can read what they're saying -

ALYSSA FARAH-GRIFFIN: Well, and it's an opportunity–it’s an opportunity for the former president to take the temperature down on Thursday and show that in his remarks, if he's capable of that.

HOSTIN: I hope–I hope he's capable of it. 

GOLDBERG: Well, he–no, listen…

HOSTIN: I hope he is.

GOLDBERG: He–he–he’ll–that’s what he’ll do. I don’t know if he’ll stay with it, you know. He’ll start that way -

HOSTIN: Yeah.

GOLDBERG: - and then he’ll lose his mind and it’ll start again.

[Laughs]

BEHAR: Probably.

GOLDBERG: We’ll be right back. 

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