Posted on 02/08/2021 4:24:02 PM PST by RandFan
On Monday’s episode of “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg called out Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) for his claims that Democrats were just as guilty of inciting violence as Republicans. The host first played a clip of U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment. And then played Paul’s appearance on “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace” where he proclaimed, “You can’t just criminalize Republican free speech and ignore all the Democrats who have incited violence.”
“That’s a false equivalent,” Goldberg responded, noting how Democrats like California’s Maxine Waters have rallied crowds but stopped well short of encouraging violence. “You can say Maxine Waters told people to get in people’s faces — we can point to 565 million times you-know-who incited violence. So I’m just going to point that out. One, two, three, four, five bad ideas perhaps… but 100 million bad ideas from the man who told people to take care of business like that? Come on.”
Goldberg turned the question to her co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines, asking if they thought that this kind of conflict meant that it would be an uphill battle for the Senate to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial beginning this week.
Hostin noted that 45 out of the Senate’s 50 Republicans already think the trial is unconstitutional. “It just seems to me that when you need 17 Republicans to be brave enough to stand up and say that, you know, a twice-impeached disgraced former president led an insurrection on our democracy, on our Capitol, and that’s wrong — I just don’t think that it’s going to happen,” she said.
While she doubted that Trump would be convicted by the Senate, Haines praised Cheney — the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney — for speaking out and telling Republican they need to be “the party of truth, and not the party of Trump.”
“We’ve been saying that there isn’t leadership in the GOP willing to take that risk and she called out the election lies point blank,” Haines said, providing a slight hope to counteract Hostin’s pessimistic outlook.
No Whoopi, it is just you and your evil clan that does that.
Whoopi is one of those “they bring a knife, we bring a gun” Democrats.
How has this woman, who seems to have only two brain cells, achieved such height in our country? It’s truly mystifying.
OMG!! She has KILLED 6 of her kids???? OMG! EVIL INCARNATE!!
The leftist playbook...Deny, Obfuscate, make counter
accusations.
Public denunciations, fake trials, all part of the
communist method. I’m just surprised they don’t want
Trump to wear a dunce cap and sit on a high stool.
Repeal 19
Only slavery has caused worse results.
Somebody, please send her the picture of Kathy Griffin holding Donald Trump’s bloody head.
Tell a lie often enough and you will believe it yourself.
The Democrats are off their rocker and their lies and incitement are going to catch up with them big time.
No...now it’s “You are a white supremacist “
The exaggeration is strong in this one. I'd like to see just one time "you-know-who" incited violence. The no-more-senseless-wars president.
I suspect the magnitude of a person's exaggeration is inversely proportional to their ability to back it up.
How in the hell do these people even live with their tenuous grasp on reality? Idiots.
Give it six months and even this getto trash will be unable to defend the failed policies of the left. No more bad orange man to blame.
Demonrats are the only ones calling for violence.
I should have read further down.😏
Oh I think you underestimate their duplicity.😝
I have a great deal of respect for Senator Paul and have high regard for his opinion. Goldberg? Not so much.
“”a twice-impeached disgraced former president led an insurrection on our democracy, on our Capitol,””
Hostin is SUPPOSED to be an attorney????? She doesn’t know the definition of “insurrection?” WHO was trying to take over the government on 1/6/21? Were all the protests we saw in 2020 insurrections?
It sure sounds good to your brain dead audience, Sonny....how much do they pay per person to be in that audience anyway?
Putting her on Blue Bloods really adds a bad taste to the show :/
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