Following the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in 64 days, even ABC’s “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin, who regularly spews venom against Trump, has had enough.
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On Monday’s episode of “The View,” Hostin condemned the number of people who reportedly support violent acts against the former president and current Republican presidential nominee.
I was just reading this morning, a recent University of Chicago poll examines support for political violence in the United States. And there is more support for violence today against Trump and others. Against Trump, 10 percent of American adults think it’s okay, and 26 million adults who support violence to prevent Trump from regaining the presidency — more than 30,000 of those own guns and almost 80 percent have access to internet organizational tools. That’s despicable, what do we do?
What do we do, Sunny?
Oh, I dunno — maybe “we” can start with knocking off the extreme rhetoric against Trump on your show and in the Trump-hating leftist media. Yeah, maybe you, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, and other ladies can stop vilifying the former president at every concocted opportunity.
Co-host Sara Haines blamed the normalization of “political rhetoric” and “hate speech” for the rise in political violence across the country, while pretend-Republican co-host Ana Navarro, whose sole purpose in life appears to be to spew venom against Trump, said political violence has become a major part of American culture.
Not to nitpick, Ms. Navarro, but two assassination attempts against a former president in just 64 days, when the last assassination attempt of a president or former president was against President Ronald Reagan in 1981 — 43 years ago? No, Ana, political violence at this level is not part of American culture.
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Sunny Hostin said the number of Americans supporting violent acts against Trump is “despicable” pic.twitter.com/12lgnYAFWi
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 16, 2024
Following the July attempt on Trump’s life, American political scientist Robert Pape, who studies national and international security affairs, wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe in which he said, “Americans favor political violence.”
Pape’s piece is worthy of a review. He wrote, in part (emphasis, mine):
The [first] assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump happened in seconds, but the broad trends leading to this event have been building for some time.
[…]
To better understand this new era, I have been leading a research team at the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats to conduct major national surveys of support for political violence among American adults, conducting more than a dozen in the three years since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
[…]
The striking finding from our June 24 survey is that 10 percent of American adults — the equivalent of 26 million people — agree that “the use of force is justified to prevent Donald Trump from being president.” A third of these people own guns. … In other words, a significant minority of Americans are radically opposed to Trump returning to power and they are politically active, with the capacity for violence.
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The salient question is this: How did people who believe the use of force to prevent Trump from becoming president is justified develop such radical views? Where did they see or hear similar views that they now parrot?
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? CNN and MSNBC? ABC, CBS, and NBC? All of the above? Yes.
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The Bottom Line
Not to be skeptical, but Sunny Hostin’s sudden conversion to condemning people who support force to stop Donald Trump from regaining the presidency smacks of a desperate attempt to separate herself from those in the media — and on her idiotic show — who practically live to vilify Trump.
Sorry, Sunny, I’m not buying your shtick.
