The cohosts of The View continued to speak about Donald Trump‘s choice to ship navy troops into California amid anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles — this time, narrowing in on key Republicans’ public responses to questions on it. Not solely did the topic get a bit testy between the panelists at sure factors, however Whoopi Goldberg was additionally incensed sufficient a few sure flip of phrase by Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson that she delivered a stern warning to him about it.
First, the group reviewed footage of the reactions to Trump’s deployment of Nationwide Guard members and Marines to town, together with California Governor Gavin Newsom calling it the transfer of an “authoritarian regime” and suggesting different cities might be subsequent, and Johnson’s response to Newsom’s assertion: “I’m not going to present you authorized evaluation on whether or not Newsom needs to be arrested, however he should be tarred and feathered. I’ll say that.” Johnson additionally sidestepped questions on whether or not it’s hypocritical of the administration to focus on these demonstrators after pardoning the insurrectionists of January sixth.
“He doesn’t have a distinction, and that’s why he’s slowly strolling away from the mic,” Sara Haines stated first. “There’s no consistency right here.” She additionally criticized the administration for losing cash on the deployment of troops. “We’ve talked about DOGE for months. We’ve been speaking concerning the careless hacksaw that’s been taken to the federal government support, most cancers analysis, college lunches, you identify it, all on the chopping block, and but we’ll spend $136 million to deploy our navy domestically with none coordination of the state authorities…. The madness of all of this taking part in out is a waste of cash.”
“Tarring and feathering, by the best way, is a medieval punishment and torture,” she continued earlier than Goldberg interrupted, “I’m sorry, that’s what they did to Black folks all all through the USA. So simply an FYI to Mike Johnson. That’s in all probability not the route you need to go proper now.”
Quickly after, Alyssa Farah Griffin warned that Trump’s political technique is likely to be “baiting liberals” into “adopting rhetoric that he thinks goes to be divisive and damaging forward of the midterms,” equivalent to “defund ICE” and “defund the police.”
Nonetheless, Sunny Hostin disagreed and stated it was purely a “energy seize” by Trump. “Trump isn’t doing this only for optics. I feel that this can be a take a look at case in order that he can dismantle a few of our establishments. I feel it’s an influence seize. I feel he’s making an attempt to make use of the may of the navy to suppress folks’s rights. I feel that could be very clear. If you use the navy in opposition to your individual residents, that could be a signal of fascism. That’s simply the reality. We’ve seen it in historical past over and over and over,” she stated.
Griffin returned to reiterate her level, although, warning, “The ICE brokers, these are non-partisan actors, for essentially the most half, who signed up for jobs, have served beneath a number of administrations. They didn’t essentially signal as much as be doing this, they usually’re following an order of the Commander in Chief.”
Goldberg was as soon as once more shaken by the flip of phrase at hand, this time by Griffin, and stated, “Suppose again, ya’ll. The place have you ever heard that earlier than: ‘I’m simply following orders by my commander in chief?’”
When Griffin tried to reply, Goldberg didn’t enable it at first and stated, “No, no, as a result of that is my level: We don’t need to be what they have been. Do you perceive what I’m saying? We don’t.” She later added, “We do must watch out, as a result of after we say issues like, ‘simply following orders,’ it results in that.” Griffin then bought her flip to talk once more and stated that she believes half of the troops are in all probability on the identical political leanings as Democrats and really feel uncomfortable with the deployment.
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