The cohosts of The View had been celebrating Thanksgiving a bit of bit early on Friday’s (November 22) episode by expressing their gratitude over the most recent growth within the Donald Trump cupboard choice spree: Matt Gaetz, who was topic to a Home ethics investigation over allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor, withdrew because the nominee for Lawyer Basic.
“I’m taking wins the place I can get them to be sincere,” Alyssa Farah Griffin stated. “I feel Matt Gaetz would have been some of the harmful, reckless, and only a horrible alternative and completely unqualified for lawyer common. And I feel it offers us a bit of glimmer of hope that Republicans are taking their recommendation and consent position significantly.”
Griffin went on to foretell that with Gaetz’s nomination not at problem, the following one that would draw main scrutiny from Senate Republicans is Fox Information’ Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Protection. “Initially, I used to be like, ‘I don’t assume he’s that dangerous of an actor. He served our nation.’ The extra we’re studying about him, he has credible sexual misconduct allegations, however he additionally can be the one least certified Secretary of Protection in historical past, overseeing three million folks throughout the globe in 160 international locations and can be one in all two folks on the planet who can deploy the U.S. navy. So I feel that is one that folk have to be like, ‘Is a Fox Information host who’s by no means managed many individuals actually any person who needs to be Secretary of Protection, within the line of succession for the president?’”
Sara Haines echoed Griffin’s preliminary sentiment, saying, “I wish to take my wins the place we get them, so I’m joyful that something is best than Matt Gaetz — actually something.” Nonetheless, she wasn’t as reassured by what his withdrawal means for the system of checks and balances, as a substitute saying, “It says extra about how hated he was. I don’t assume this was folks discovering a spine and saying, ‘That is out of bounds.’”
Sunny Hostin, alternatively, was relieved by the information. “It truly gave me some solace,” she defined. “I used to be very fearful that Trump saying he wished these recess appointments, and I feel he actually thought that he may put up somebody like Matt Gaetz, somebody that he hadn’t actually vetted, somebody that he simply type of nominated him as a whim, pondering that he had the Senate and they might not object.”
Ana Navarro, in the meantime, was a bit extra direct along with her reward for the Gaetz withdrawal, saying, “I wish to acknowledge that they stood as much as Donald Trump, that they’re doing their jobs of offering checks and balances, of doing recommendation and consent, and that there’s a bridge, a line that they won’t cross. So I wish to applaud them. I wish to thank them, and I wish to inform them, ‘Your job isn’t over.’”
Hostin then countered that Trump’s alternative choice, Pam Bondi, was “a really harmful choose” since she brazenly “supported Trump’s false election declare” in 2020. Nonetheless, Navarro had her personal very private causes for approving of that nomination.
“I’ve recognized Pam Bondi for a lot of, many, a few years. I’ll let you know, I don’t wish to break her fame with MAGA folks, however Pam Bondi and I frolicked quite a bit when she was lawyer common of Florida, and he or she would come to Miami, we drank quite a bit collectively. I preferred her quite a bit. She’s not a kook,” Navarro stated.
Hostin wasn’t deterred from reiterating the hazards of Bondi’s election stance, however Navarro joked, “What’s a bit of election denialism between associates?”
Navarro then continued on a extra severe notice, “Every part in life is relative. There isn’t a accusation of sexual harassment or assault in opposition to her. She hasn’t beheaded a whale, she hasn’t stabbed a bear cub.”
Hostin then provided up footage of Bondi on numerous information applications insisting Trump received the 2020 election and talked about “pretend ballots,” however even Haines defended her, saying, “I’d nonetheless take her over Matt Gaetz.”
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