ABC News and Disney were back to spew dangerous rhetoric through their vile mouthpiece known as The View. On Wednesday, the liberal ladies suggested Republicans were itching to live under a dictatorship and suggested that former President Trump was thinking like former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini because he wanted to rein in the rogue Environmental Protection Agency. They even warned that Trump could end up like Mussolini “hung … upside down in a square.”
After playing a soundbite of Trump’s interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity from the previous night, co-host Joy Behar had a meltdown over Trump saying the word “country”:
Does anybody else get nauseous when he says the word “country?” The word “country.” Every time he says it, I feel nauseous. Well, because I don’t think he cares one iota about the country. So every time he says it –It rings true that he’s a traitor.
This was followed up by moderator Whoopi Goldberg suggesting that Republicans found living under a dictatorship “an interesting prospect.” “I have to tell you, I’m — I never thought in my lifetime that I would see this country come as close to dictatorship as I’ve seen,” she proclaimed.
Even faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin joined Goldberg’s smear against her purported fellow Republicans. Together, she and racist co-host Sunny Hostin insisted that regulatory agencies in the executive branch – like the EPA – were not beholden to the chief executive and attempts to control them were actions of a dictator:
FARAH GRIFFIN: I’m a conservative and been a conservative longer than Donald Trump has. That ain’t conservative. That is growing the federal government and the power of one man.
GOLDBERG: That’s called dictatorship.
FARAH GRIFFIN: It’s inching toward dictatorship. Exactly.
GOLDBERG: Let’s call it what it is.
HOSTIN: And he also wanted to do things like sort of consolidate things like let’s say the EPA.
HAINES: Regulations.
HOSTIN: The regulatory agencies under the executive branch.
Behar chimed in again to proclaim that that “particular brand of fascism and bigotry might work in Florida but it’s not going to work in New York, it’s not going to work in certain states in this country.”
That’s right a president controlling an agency under their purview was “fascism and bigotry.” Hence the comparison to Mussolini from Hostin. “Now we’re going back but Mussolini had that same thought that he was going to take away these sort of individual agencies and place them under his power and he was quite successful doing that,” she cautioned viewers.
“But do you know what the Italians did to Mussolini, they hung him upside down in a square in Milan and his girlfriend,” she touted, warning Trump that could be his fate.
The transcript is below, click “expand” to read:
ABC’s The View
July 19, 2023
11:06:10 a.m. Eastern(…)
DONALD TRUMP: It bothers me for everybody in this incredible sold out audience and it bothers you. I got the letter on Sunday night, think of it. I don’t think they’ve ever sent a letter on Sunday night. And they’re in a rush because they want to interfere — it’s interference with the election. It’s election interference, never been done like this in the history of our country and it’s a disgrace
[Cuts back to live]
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Sunday. Sunday.
JOY BEHAR: Does anybody else get nauseous when he says the word “country?” The word “country.” Every time he says it, I feel nauseous.
SARA HAINES: It feels like he’s saying bother me during the regular business hours.
BEHAR: Well, because I don’t think he cares one iota about the country. So every time he says it –
[Applause]
It rings true that he’s a traitor.
GOLDBERG: What’s interesting about very many of these people who you’ve sort of talked about not even saying or admitting that anything wrong was done, it’s because they want to do the same thing. DeSantis wants the same kind of country.
BEHAR: Yes.
GOLDBERG: He believes I believe that he wants to also be a dictator. I believe many of these folks who are defending this think this is an interesting prospect. I have to tell you, I’m — I never thought in my lifetime that I would see this country come as close to dictatorship as I’ve seen.
[Applause]
Ever.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: What’s so crazy to me about this whole scenario is Donald Trump, there’s this big piece in The New York Times. We talked about it briefly yesterday. Donald Trump’s team around him now on the record saying his plans for a second term are to grow the executive branch and the powers of the presidency.
HAINES: To eliminate checks and balances.
FARAH GRIFFIN: To eliminate checks and balances and the coequal branches of government. I’m a conservative and been a conservative longer than Donald Trump has. That ain’t conservative. That is growing the federal government and the power of one man.
GOLDBERG: That’s called dictatorship.
FARAH GRIFFIN: It’s inching toward dictatorship. Exactly.
GOLDBERG: Let’s call it what it is.
SUNNY HOSTIN: And he also wanted to do things like sort of consolidate things like let’s say the EPA.
HAINES: Regulations.
HOSTIN: The regulatory agencies under the executive branch.
BEHAR: You now, that particular brand of fascism and bigotry might work in Florida but it’s not going to work in New York, it’s not going to work in certain states in this country.
HOSTIN: I hope so.
BEHAR: No, no, no, no.
HOSTIN: Now we’re going back but Mussolini had that same thought that he was going to take away these sort of individual agencies and place them under his power and he was quite successful doing that.
BEHAR: But do you know what the Italians did to Mussolini, they hung him upside down in a square in Milan and his girlfriend.
HOSTIN: That they did.
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