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STUDY: The View Stokes GOP Divisions Over Epstein, Decry Criticism of Dems
The liberal ladies of ABC News’s The View had a field day the week of July 14 as they tried to divide Republicans with the Jeffrey Epstein documents snafu. Smelling blood in the water, they kicked off nearly every episode that week talking about Epstein. Meanwhile, at the same time, they cut out a chunk of time to decry liberals who dared to criticize the Democratic Party’s messaging.
In total, The View spent over 40 minutes (42 minutes and 25 seconds) talking about Epstein and boasting about how Republicans were at each other’s throats over the client list.
“It looks like some conservatives are getting behind you-know-who's push to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein … Not everyone, however, on the right is falling in line, and some Democrats like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are chiming in as well.” moderator Whoopi Goldberg boasted on Tuesday.
On Monday, Ana Navaro, one the purported Republicans on the panel, was gleeful. “Bring me some popcorn because watching them fight amongst themselves is the most entertaining thing I've seen all year,” she gushed.
Co-host Joy Behar even took the opportunity to repeatedly suggest, without evidence, that President Trump was on the client list. “I've watching it, you know, he keeps protesting there's no list … I'm innocent. I did nothing. A lot of what he's saying and that makes me suspicious. That's all I'm saying, whether he's on it or not on it, I'm just suspicious,” she proclaimed.
As NewsBusters previously reported, they cut out a little over six minutes (6 minutes and 39 seconds) during Tuesday’s episode to lash out former President Obama and billionaire Mark Cuban for daring to criticize the Democrats’ poor messaging strategy. Goldberg essentially argued that the “Trump sucks” campaign message worked because people were protesting:
They were not navel gazing. It was older people saying, why are you touching my social security? It was not people whining. It was about people saying, why are you taking these rights from my child when my child was born here?
This has not been about Democrats laying back. This has been about y'all. This has been about y'all, because their messaging was always the same. Democrats have been angry at what this man tried to do the last time. They've been angry this time. So, I – with much due respect to you both, I believe you are pointing the finger at the wrong person when you say Democrats.
Whoopi RAGES over Mark Cuban saying Dems need to have a better message than just "Trump sucks."
After playing a clip of Cuban, she starts shouting:
"Okay. Yeah, okay. So, let me remind everybody who was out on the front lines marching when we had the giant marches that went on,… pic.twitter.com/73RIbjMPDH
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 15, 2025
As NewsBusters has documented, ABC News’s The View was mostly a vector to pump Democratic Party propaganda to the masses and they publicly embraced that role multiple times.
During an appearance on the show by sports commentator Stephen A. Smith earlier this year, Goldberg argued with Smith about the Democratic Party’s efforts in messaging themselves to voters in 2024 and defended The View’s role in that effort:
SMITH: [Y]ou're talking about what he's doing. But before you brought that up you brought up the message that the Democratic Party was disseminating. I'm challenging you on that. That is not what they were doing.
GOLDBERG: Oh, yes, it was. I was here. We did it.
Given their sycophantic pride in being Democratic Party propagandists on daytime TV, it’s obvious why former President Biden chose to go on their show in a failed attempt to defend his mental acuity. They even refused to have CNN’s Jake Tapper on their show to discuss his book about the Democratic cover up, which The View took part in.
It’s obvious that The View co-host saw it as their mission to try to keep Democrats together by putting down intern decent, while trying to stoke divisions among their opponents.