‘The View’: Whoopi Goldberg Says Trump Should Be Visited by the Secret Service Just Like Kathy Griffin (VIDEO)
On Tuesday’s edition of The View, the hosts dug into a wealth of hot-button issues, starting with Donald Trump‘s social media posting of an image showing President Joe Biden bound and lying horizontally on the back of a truck embellished with Trump flags. The image was roundly rebuked by the news media, which largely refused to show the image, and host Whoopi Goldberg opened the show by suggesting the former POTUS needs a visit from the Secret Service.
“You Know Who spent the most sacred weekend on the Catholic calendar posting rants about the judge in his New York fraud case, making false claims about the judge’s daughter, and reposting a violent image of President Biden that we are not going to show you here today,” Goldberg said. “These rants violate the court’s gag order, so why does he keep getting away with it? That image is so violent. What’s the difference between what Kathy Griffin did and what he did?”
Goldberg was referring, of course, to the 2017 incident in which Griffin posted a photo of herself holding a blood-soaked severed head that looked like the then-president. Griffin’s career was badly damaged as a result of that stunt — including losing her longtime role as CNN’s New Year’s Eve co-host — and she was put on a no-fly list in addition to being warned by the Secret Service and investigated by the Department of Justice.
“She did what she does as a comic, but are the Secret Service going to be visiting him and giving him warnings about putting violent imagery?” Goldberg pondered.
Co-host Sunny Hostin, for one, agreed that “they should,” adding, “Everyone should be treated equally under the law.” Hostin went on to say that posts like the one in question indicate, “Trump has given people permission, license to be politically violent. And this is from the very, very beginning.”
Meanwhile, former Trump administration member Alyssa Farah Griffin predicted Trump’s social media behavior would harm his chances of returning to the White House: “He lacks the most basic instincts around impulse control, and I think that’s going to hurt him the closer we get to the election,” she said.
REAL DANGERS OF TRUMP’S RHETORIC? After former Pres. Trump spent Easter weekend posting rants about the judge in his New York fraud case and reposting a violent image of Pres. Biden, #TheView co-hosts react. https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/vXimXB3rWp
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Maybe it is some of the general who need to shut up. They are the ones who are ignorant to the point of being obnoxious. I mean people who use Facebook as a form of news is ridiculous. People need to research things and find out the truth prior to popping off. People who can watch and listen to trump and praise him are delusional.
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Whoopi needs to shut up! She is ignorant to the point of obnoxious!
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YOU horrific people tell LIES about him every day.
How do you keep getting away with it?
Oh right, as long as it's AGAINST Trump, you can do whatever you want.
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People are horrific?
The man is a psychopath! He couldn’t tell the truth if it hit him in the face
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I know, but you still got fools out here, who can vote, that refuse to believe the facts and what's plain as day and right in front of them. MAGA morons who are intellectually and morally bankrupt!
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You are moraly bankrupt if you that ass clown that's in office now has done anything good for this country. I don't how people think! I truly think liberals have a mental problem!
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What lies are you referring to? This article mentions that your orange idol shared a social media post with a heinous image on it. THAT is not a lie. So what are you irked about? Meanwhile, Trump would lie about the color of the sky if he thought it would serve him somehow. And guess what-- the man told over 30,000 lies while he was president. (Google it.) How does HE keep getting away with it??
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