The View’s Joy Behar accused President Trump of being a “domestic terrorist” before reluctantly walking back the statement.
Thursday’s show opened with a debate about the police-free zone protesters created in Seattle, which included references to the president’s Wednesday night tweet labeling those involved as “domestic terrorists.”
“He doesn’t help anything,” Behar explained. “As a matter of fact, he has the nerve to call anybody a domestic terrorist. He’s the domestic terrorist. He’s the one who’s been impeached for obstructing justice in this country. He’s the one who has friends who are in jail, you know. Roger Stone is in jail. Michael Flynn is in jail. Michael Cohen is in jail. He’s worried about people in Seattle — by the way, if he wants to do something about Seattle, somebody better show him where it is on the map.”
Minutes later, co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked if Behar could “clear up one thing.”
“You were not calling the president a domestic terrorist. You were just saying that his take on this is a little crazier than you thought. Is that right?” Goldberg asked.
Behar then reluctantly took the comment back, saying, “Um, yeah. I guess.”
“I’m not calling anybody names like he does,” she continued. “It’s just that it seems ironic that he would be calling people domestic terrorists. I mean, I’ll get in trouble for calling him a domestic terrorist. He won’t get in trouble for calling innocent people domestic terrorists. That’s the irony of this situation. So I take it back. I take it back.”
