WATCH: Joy Behar blasts Trump, says 'he manipulated everybody' with claims of arrest

Julia Johnson

March 22, 01:34 PM March 22, 01:34 PM

The View bashed former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, claiming he lied about a potential indictment and arrest for allegedly paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.

"He manipulated everybody. We all rose to the occasion — the papers — everybody just went there," Joy Behar said.

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Over the weekend, the former president claimed on Truth Social that he would be arrested on Tuesday and asked his supporters to protest. However, Tuesday passed and Trump was not indicted, nor was he arrested.

"He hasn’t been arrested like he predicted," Sunny Hostin acknowledged.

The hosts then agreed that they should not take Trump at his word.

"You kind of have to weigh it with all the other stuff he's said," Whoopi Goldberg explained. "And you figure, well, you know, you said you won the election. You didn't win. You said they are coming to arrest you. They didn't arrest you."

"Why would we start believing him now?" Sara Haines asked.

"So many people excited," Hostin lamented.

Behar slammed the former president, claiming, "He is a liar."

"Are you shocked?" Goldberg asked of her co-host.

On Wednesday, the Manhattan grand jury's meeting was called off. District Attorney Alvin Bragg did, however, tell the members that they should be on standby for Thursday.

WATCH: The View blames Trump's 'xenophobia' for discrediting Covid lab leak theory

Julia Johnson

March 01, 01:14 PM March 01, 01:14 PM

According to The View hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin, former President Donald Trump is responsible for the lack of credibility initially given to the theory of COVID-19 originating from a lab leak in Wuhan, China.

"Trump unleashed this xenophobia," Hostin said. "He stopped allowing Chinese people to come to the country. He then started calling it the—."

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Goldberg cut her cohost off, telling her, "Don’t even say it."

"He kept on saying 'China, China' and doing this thing where I was even concerned, as someone who had lost family members, for [Hostin's husband] to even bring it up," Hostin added. "That is really sad because when you can’t trust the transparency of your government, where are you?"

Goldberg also told her cohosts, "he made it about Asian people," referring to Trump's handling of the pandemic.

She then referenced "Asian folks getting smacked and hit and people saying stuff to them about bringing the disease here."

"If you-know-who had not started it with that, had he not made it about that, had he said 'listen, this might have come out of a lab' and not gone on and described it in ways I’m not going to reiterate for you, it probably would have been listened to a lot differently," Goldberg explained.

It was revealed on Sunday that the U.S. Department of Energy concluded the COVID-19 virus most likely originated in a lab and was then leaked. The department oversees various labs and research centers. It reportedly made the judgment in "low confidence."

Comedian Jon Stewart, who floated the lab leak theory on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2021, reacted to the new report on a recent podcast episode.

According to him, "the larger problem with all of this is the inability to discuss things that are within the realm of possibility without falling into absolutes and litmus-testing each other for our political allegiances as it arose from that."

WATCH: Joy Behar bemoans Ron DeSantis's 'win for the ages' in Florida

Julia Johnson

November 09, 02:32 PM November 09, 02:32 PM

Joy Behar expressed displeasure with Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R-FL) reelection in Florida, making her feelings clear to her The View co-hosts on Wednesday.

"I can't stand him," she said.

The hosts also discussed the front page of the New York Post, which called the governor "DeFuture."

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With more than 95% of votes reported, DeSantis easily fended off Democrat Charlie Crist's challenge, 59.4% to 40%.

"We stood our ground. We did not back down," the governor said in his victory speech. "We had the conviction to guide us, and we had the courage to lead. We made promises to the people, and we have delivered on those promises."

The decisive win has fueled speculation of a 2024 run for DeSantis, especially because of less-than-satisfactory performances from Trump-endorsed candidates.

Behar further claimed that there should have been a "blue tsunami" in the midterm elections, blaming Democratic messaging for its absence.

"There is no good messaging going on on the Democratic side," she explained. "It's democracy, stupid! It's abortion rights, stupid! It's voting rights, stupid! And sell it!"

Sunny Hostin then praised President Joe Biden for all of his "wins."

"We don't talk enough about the wins that [President Biden] has had," she said.

President Joe Biden announced that he will deliver remarks at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday after several Democrats across the country performed better than expected.

Look at: Pleasure Behar claims voting rights are remaining stripped from black persons

Julia Johnson

June 20, 12:56 PM June 20, 12:56 PM

On a specific Juneteenth episode of The Watch Monday, host Pleasure Behar advised viewers that the black local community is getting rid of its suitable to vote.

"We need to be knowledgeable on a working day like this that voting rights are getting systematically taken away from African Us residents and other folks far too in this state," reported Behar. "It's a fantastic working day to reflect on that, I assume."

Behar did not issue to any procedures, nor did she elaborate on how or why citizens are dropping the suitable to vote.

Host Whoopi Goldberg chimed in to assert that becoming black, Asian, Latino, or "nearly anything other than what persons are anticipating to see in The united states" is "challenging."

"I come to feel that we are seeing this kind of rollback of heritage," fellow host Sunny Hostin afterwards explained.

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"Be very vigilant when you're hearing about [critical race theory], alleged CRT in your educational facilities. Struggle that," she instructed the audience. "You have to make confident that previous does not turn into prologue."

When civil legal rights law firm Ben Crump, identified for symbolizing the people of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Jacob Blake, was requested about the push versus important race idea, he claimed, “It is basically asinine” and “so terrifying.”

In accordance to Crump, all those who are against the principle are “trying to prevent the younger folks from learning.”

Crump is now symbolizing many family members of victims from the racially inspired mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery retail outlet in May perhaps.

The legal professional explained the shooter is not the only 1 he needs to maintain accountable. “He had a lot of accomplices,” he claimed.

Crump told viewers that The usa requirements to “hold accountable individuals who curate the detest.” He included that tv hosts, those people who promote detest on the net, gun brands, and gun retailers are all to blame as well.

At 1 level, the hosts talked over on the web criticism, which Anna Navarro dismissed as remaining unfold by "Russian bots" that she reported were "especially active all through the Trump administration."

The hosts decried the criticism that has arisen with the increase of social media, in particular.