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The ladies of The View got fired up during Tuesday’s (May 20) broadcast as they debated whether Americans and the press should focus more on President Joe Biden or President Donald Trump‘s “cognitive decline.”
They began the broadcast discussing the recent release of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book Original Sin, which reveals members of the White House reportedly knew about President Biden’s “cognitive decline” when he was seeking re-election in 2024.
Whoopi Goldberg asked the ladies whether they thought it was still relevant, considering the state of Trump’s administration. “Why is this important to know now? Because it just seems to me we got a lot of stuff to be concerned about at the moment,” she pointed out.
Joy Behar took Goldberg’s cue to list the many things she believes Americans have to be “concerned about,” calling them “Trump’s atrocities.”
“Should I list them? Here’s Trump’s atrocities,” Behar said as she began rattling off over a dozen of motions Trump has passed since beginning his second term in January. “This is what we’re concerned about now: Cutting Medicaid, slashing funding for cancer research, slashing funding because of tariffs, dismantling USAID which helps children who are poor around the world, destroying due process, ending birthright citizenship…”
After listing many, many more of these “atrocities,” Behar also called out President Trump for claiming President Biden is suffering from “stage nine cancer.”
Photo: ABC“Oh really? Where did he come up with that? When is Jake Tapper going to write about the cognitive decline of the person who is in charge right now?” she wondered.
Alyssa Farah Griffin took issue with the criticism against Tapper and other journalists who have reported on the left, asking, “With political figures who are coming out and attacking [Tapper and Thompson] how is that pro-democracy?”
“This is where I take some issue with folks on the left,” Griffin ranted. “[They say], ‘We stand with journalists, we stand with free press,’ when they’re going after their opponents like Donald Trump, but when they critically cover the democrats, it’s, ‘Oh no, they’re lying. It’s fairy dust, it’s not true.’”
At one point during the conversation, all of the ladies began interrupting each other as Sunny Hostin railed against former White House officials who spoke out against Trump only after he left office. She pointedly called out former Attorney General Bill Barr, former National Security Advisor John Bolton, and others.
“We should be very, very concerned about the people who were in the Trump administration that did hold on to information about how Trump was conducting the presidency and saw they could make money off of their book,” she said. “All of them knew what Trump was, who he was, how he was doing it, and they all wrote a book!”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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