The View hosts touted 2020 Democrat Michael Bloomberg’s growing momentum without mentioning controversial comments he made in recently leaked audio.
“I think that there’s a movement afoot for Bloomberg that’s going on. I hear it everywhere I go,” co-host Joy Behar said during Tuesday’s episode, while Sunny Hostin agreed, saying, “Same, same.”
Behar, 77, added that she did not believe the former New York City mayor was trying to buy the election, although he has already spent more than a quarter billion dollars of his own money during this election cycle.
Despite discussing Bloomberg’s candidacy for an extended period, the hosts did not mention audio leaked on Monday in which the presidential candidate promoted the targeting of minorities with stop and frisk.
“Ninety-five percent of your murders, murderers and murder victims, fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops,” Bloomberg said in the 2015 recording. “They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York, that’s true in virtually every city. And that’s where the real crime is. You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of people that are getting killed.
“And the way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them. And then they start. ’Oh, I don’t want to get caught,’ so they don’t bring the gun. They still have a gun, but they leave it at home,” he added.
The audio echoed comments Bloomberg made in 2013, when he said during a radio show interview that police “disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little.” He later apologized for his past support for stop and frisk, including during an appearance on The View last year.
