After the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in 64 days, even ABC’s co-host of “The View,” Sunny Hostin, who regularly spits venom and bile against Trump, has had enough.
On Monday’s episode of “The View,” Hostin condemned the huge number of people who reportedly support acts of violence against the former president and current Republican presidential candidate.
I just read this morning that a recent poll from the University of Chicago examines support for political violence in the United States. And there is more support for violence against Trump and others today, with 10 percent of American adults saying it’s OK to change Trump’s mind and 26 million adults who support violence to prevent Trump from being president again – more than 30,000 of them own guns and nearly 80 percent have access to online organizing tools. This is despicable, what are we supposed to do?
What do we do, Sunny?
Oh, I don’t know – maybe “we” can start by stopping the extreme anti-Trump rhetoric on your show and in the Trump-hating left-wing media. Yes, maybe you, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and other ladies can stop demonizing the former president at every possible opportunity.
Co-host Sara Haines blamed the normalization of “political rhetoric” and “hate speech” for the rise in political violence across the country, while ostensibly Republican co-host Ana Navarro, whose sole purpose in life seems to be spewing venom and bile against Trump, said political violence has become an integral part of American culture.
I don’t mean to be petty, Ms. Navarro, but two assassination attempts on a former president in just 64 days, when the last assassination attempt on a president or former president was against President Ronald Reagan in 1981 – 43 years ago? No, Ana, political violence on this level is not Part of American culture.
Sunny Hostin said the number of Americans supporting acts of violence against Trump was “despicable.” pic.twitter.com/12lgnYAFWi
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) 16 September 2024
After the assassination attempt on Trump in July, American political scientist Robert Pape, who deals with national and international security issues, said wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe in which he said, “Americans support political violence.”
Pape’s contribution is worth a review. He wrote in part (emphasis mine):
The [first] The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump happened in a matter of seconds, but the general trends leading up to this event had been emerging for some time.
[…]
To better understand this up-to-date era, I led a research team at the University of Chicago’s Security and Threats Project that conducted huge national surveys of support for political violence among American adults. More than a dozen of these surveys have been conducted in the three years since the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
[…]
The remarkable result of our Survey from June 24 is that Ten percent of American adults – or 26 million people – agree that “the use of violence to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president is justified.” A third of these people own weapons. … In other words, A significant minority of Americans are radically opposed to Trump’s return to power. They are politically energetic and prepared to apply violence.
The key question is: How could people who believe the apply of violence to prevent Trump’s presidency was justified develop such radical views? Where have they seen or heard similar views that they parrot today?
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? CNN and MSNBC? ABC, CBS and NBC? All of them? Yes.
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The conclusion
I don’t mean to be skeptical, but Sunny Hostin’s sudden turn to condemning people who support violence to stop Donald Trump from becoming president again smacks of a desperate attempt to distance herself from those in the media – and on her idiotic show – who practically live to denigrate Trump.
Sorry, Sunny, but I don’t buy your story.
