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The View co-host: Trump team used ‘racist dog whistle’ during impeachment defense

By John Gage
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The View co-host: Trump team used ‘racist dog whistle’ during impeachment defense

The View host Sunny Hostin accused President Trump’s impeachment defense team of racism by bringing up the New York Times’s 1619 Project.

“That was just a dog whistle to, you know, a racist dog whistle, quite frankly, to the base,” the host claimed Tuesday after the show played a clip of the defense team mentioning the project. Co-host Joy Behar said she thought the defense team brought it up as a “smokescreen” to ignore the charges against Trump.

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