The View apologized Wednesday for claiming there were “neo-Nazis” inside of a recent youth conservative summit in Florida after being hit with a cease-and-desist.
“We apologize for anything we said that may have been unclear on these points,” co-host Sara Haines said during the broadcast.
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“On Monday, we talked about the fact that there were openly neo-Nazi demonstrators outside the Student Action Summit of the Turning Point USA group. We want to make clear these demonstrators were gathered outside the event and that they were not invited or endorsed by Turning Point USA,” she explained.
“A Turning Point USA spokesman said the group ‘100% condemns those ideologies’ and said Turning Point USA security tried to remove the neo-Nazis from the area but could not because they were on public property,” she continued. “Also, Turning Point USA wanted us to clarify this was a Turning Point USA summit and not a Republican Party event.”
The organization is not satisfied with the apology, however.
“Whoopi is the one who said it. She should be the one to offer the apology,” spokesman Andrew Kolvet told the Washington Examiner.
UPDATE: The View has issued yet another formal correction to TPUSA and its students LIVE on air. The apology was issued by Sara Haines. Whoopi remained silent and has not retracted her comments that TPUSA “metaphorically” embraced “Nazis.” https://t.co/rcTawUTbpX pic.twitter.com/rANUlmXZwO
— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) July 27, 2022
On Monday, Whoopi Goldberg claimed that “you let them in, and you knew what they were,” referring to the demonstrators outside the event.
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“Neo-Nazis were out there in the front of the conference with antisemitic slurs and, you know, the Nazi swastika and a picture of a so-called Jewish person with exaggerated features, just like Goebbels did during the Third Reich. It’s the same thing, right out of that same playbook,” co-host Joy Behar also claimed.
After the apology was issued Wednesday, guest host and ex-Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin chimed in, “They still invited Matt Gaetz though, I would just like to note,” taking a shot at the representative from Florida.
