The View: Dejected Sunny Hostin Reads Legal Note About Matt Gaetz, DOJ Investigation
Oh, sweet summer child. You cannot present anything as a “fact” if it is not a fact.
The ladies on The View have had a blast attacking President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, especially now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz.
They brought up the sexual allegations against Gaetz, including sex with minors:
[Sunny] Hostin said, “Within the Department of Justice, you know, you have the sex crimes unit, which is what I was a part of. Child sex crimes and child trafficking. How could you nominate someone with allegations of child trafficking or trafficking across state lines and having sex with a 17-year-old?”
[Whoopi] Goldberg responded, “I’m saddened by it because all of those women who will have to get some defense of what’s happened to them, that’s who they’re going to, and this is someone who will just say, ‘It’s not a big deal.’ All of those little kids who, you know, get abused, they got no recourse now because this is what’s in charge.”
Hostin then had to read a legal note regarding those allegations because they all left off some crucial details.
The look on her face. LOL:
Matt Gaetz has long denied all allegations, calling the claims, quote, “invented,” and saying in a statement to ABC News that “this false smear following a three-year criminal investigation should be viewed with great skepticism.” The DOJ investigation was closed with no charges being brought.
Notice the change in her face and voice. Oh, they cut to a commercial when she finished reading it. Cowards.
NEW: The View host Sunny Hostin fumes as she is forced to read a legal note just minutes after presenting the Matt Gaetz allegations as a “fact.”
Hostin: They discussed the fact that once [Gaetz] finds out that she's 17, he stops having s*x with her.
Hostin 3 min later: Matt… pic.twitter.com/USvYjnWqKZ
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ABC lawyers hair caught fire
how much do u think AG Gaetz
will ask for in damages …
Maybe, just maybe, they’ll stop throwing out allegations as fact.
Nah, their histrionics over Orange Man Bad will override their logic time and again.
We wouldn’t be using the term Orange Man Bad if it were not for Glenn Beck who mocked Trump by rubbing cheetoes on his face and then said, “If you stick your face in a bowl of Cheetos you will look just like Donald Trump.”
Never liked beck
Only Glenn Beck would have thought of sticking his face in a bowl of Cheetos in the first place. Guy’s always been a strange duck.
Glenn Beck is an idiot. It is truly amazing how many Trump supporters, here on LI and elsewhere, have defended him, Truly disgraceful
“It is truly amazing how many Trump supporters, here on LI and elsewhere, have defended him”
Really? So you think Paula’s comment was supportive of Beck?
Can you link to ANY post here by ANY commenter that has been supportive of Beck?
No?
GTFOH.
We have been conditioned: We have to believe all women, regardless of whether they are liars. Even Sunshine Hotsie Totsie.
Sunny could be a trans without having to change her name. Maybe she is for all I know. She seems all Hotsie Totsie.
Remember that time she failed to honor a bet with Mr. Branca about the details of the George Zimmerman trial?
“We have been conditioned to believe all women?” What world of cuckolds do you live in? Are you one of those here on LI who believe that women should not even be allowed to vote?
Fûck you asshole.
I suspect that LI will censor this, but I get great pleasure telling you to take a long walk off a short pier.
Your mother should not have been allowed to have children. Incest has the end result of having a child like you.
“What world of cuckolds do you live in?”
Pretty sure he doesn’t live in your world, doofus.
Outstanding response.
Her reaction to reading that statement was better than when she was told her ancestors were Spanish slave traders.
The stiff, shell shocked look? Priceless!
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Yes just loved that moment
The View never disappoints, does it? Now that is a fact!
https://x.com/MsEBL/status/1859257713794142273
For an accomplished lawyer, she’s not very good at avoiding legal trouble.
Had she simply framed her opinion as opinion, she would have been fine. But noooooo…..
What’s the old insult?
You must have been absent from law school the day they taught law?
I’m not a lawyer but I work with many very smart ones. My impression is that besides teaching the nuts and bolts of the law, law school teaches students how to *think* about whatever it is that’s in front of them. Sunny apparently did not attend a law school where that was important.
Most schools for some time have taught what to think and not how to think. I literally start 99% of my rebuttals with “well” because I have to stop and frame the conditions of what I am about to say in the proper context. In my world there are no “blanket statements and conditions.”
Shows like The View are designed to dumb down their audience. But the hosts can’t help getting washed in all the close-range sidelobe radiation. Sucks whatever actual knowledge they may ever have had right out of their heads.
You give them too much credit
What do the University of Notre Dame Law School and biased, unfair progressive politics have in common?
They gave us Sunny Hostin and Amy Comey Barrett.
The leftistsin the media are so accustomed to vomiting allegations as facts, they can no longer tell the difference… until the legal department screams “Walk that back! Right NOW!!”
Next week on The View: “Minor attracted persons are not pedophiles, and to demonize them as such is hateful bigotry that we will not tolerate.”
An absolute sewer on tv. Good grief.
So Joe Biden is on
It’s worse than you guys may think.
The main accuser has an actual history of false claims of someone being a child trafficker, running for office he falsely tried to frame his main opponent, was later convicted of that crime, even confessed to it hoping for a lighter sentence.
There’s a reason the Gaetz hating DOJ never indicted.
And why The View’s lawyers must have bordered on a coronary event when the harridans started giving credence to the accusation on prime time TV.
I used to admire Whoopi Goldberg for her career work and the fact that you don’t get much more :rags to riches: than her story. However, as a pundit and commenter she’s lazy as F. She believes what she believes without a trace of curiosity as to what the actual fact IS. A prime example was when Jill Biden was being made fun of because, like many pretentious PhD holders, she insisted she be addressed as “Doctor” even outside of professional circles. Ms. Goldberg immediately assumed Dr. Biden was in fact a real (ie medical) doctor, and professed to know for a fact that she was “a great doctor”. Her PhD is in education.
And it’s hard to take her take on this seriously, given her past declarations in defense of sex with minors as not bring “rape, rape”.
A very thoughtful post, I agree with everything you said except for having a slight amount of admiration of Whoopi’s early years.
Let’s just say her characters were written to show wisdom, It’s easy to be misled by that. I myself will admit to being horrified at the result whenever they took Shelley Long out of the Cheers bar and put her in an easy chair in front of a late-night show host.
Jill Biden can certainly be characterized as pretentious but she doesn’t have a PhD. Her terminal degree is a EdD, a doctorate of education.
While ABC probably caught her pop fly here, this will be Exhibit B in the next defamation case that gets filed against her (and given her penchant for spewing whatever comes into her head, it’s a safe bet that there will be some).
It’s a perfect exemplar for how she is recklessly indifferent to the truth, and her scowling climbdown indicates her malicious intent.
I’m almost convinced that we are indeed living in someone’s simulation, a person that has a twisted sense of humor, in creating a television show that turbocharges progressive hate for anything/everything they disagree with and having that show hosted by three (insert sophomoric pejoratives here) by the names of Sunny, Joy and Whoopie.
If original, a keen observation!
Now in my head they will always be Tiny Winky, Laa-Laa, and Po.
Tinky WInky, rather.
Eric Swalwell is Tiny Winkie.
How many times can you play the same tune before people get tired of hearing it?
Clarence Thomas
Brett Kavanaugh
Trump, Trump, Trump
And now Gaetz and Pete Hegseth
Who am I missing? I am sure there were more.
Anyhow none of those false accusers were ever prosecuted, so I guess it’s a safe game to play.
What is galling is that the Left accepts this kind of behavior from their own, then insists that conservatives accused of the same moral lapses be disqualified from consideration for public office. A certain saying about “standards” comes to mind. (Al Franken might be considered an outlier, but I believe he was a sacrifice to the “me too” movement in an attempt to encourage Republicans to defenestrate their own in kind. It didn’t work, so the defenestration of liberals, by liberals, over such accusations was suspended.)
Absolutely.
They never cast shade at Clinton or JFK for sticking it in inappropriate places — and they ELECTED them.
And “trafficking?” Let’s talk about JFK actually pimping out his intern to a pal and his brother.
And then, of course… there’s Kamala the Kasting Kouch Kid.
But no, let’s all sling mud at an “enemy” player who got sucked in by a conniving honeytrapper.
That’s because the Left has no morals and they celebrate that about themselves.
Actually, it’s that their morals are different. Hedonism and transhumanism are pillars of progressivism. And whether you are right depends entirely on whether you are within the body of the Progressive church or not.
They are really bad morals. But they are morals.
If you have to be fact-checked by your own lawyers in real time, you qualify for the fakest of fake news.
We simply must accept Matt’s innocent explanation about this. He was having open sex in the company of a bunch of strangers in a motel room and felt sure that the girl was 18 at the time. Nobody can prove any payments were for sex. Probably some loose change thrown in for munchies.
Three minutes? They had that copy prepared in advance. It would have taken that long to make the decision to require her to read it, not enough time to write the copy too. They had probably already warned the cast to not go there & were prepared for the moment they did.
Hostin is an inspiration to us all.
She shows that even a COMPLETE IDIOT can be wealthy and successful in America.
That Democrat First already belongs to Joe Biden.
When you hold the proper opinions, certainly this is possible.
LMAO!
Here is why I think the Gaetz nomination was a horrible idea completely ignoring the entire “possible scandal” (because face reality nobody gives a dam if it is 17 or 18 except the police)
1. He is a lawyer in name only here is what the AI gave when I asked if Matt Gaetz has ever practiced law
“Matt Gaetz earned his Juris Doctor (JD) from William & Mary Law School in 2007.
He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2008.
After graduating from law school, Gaetz briefly worked in private practice at a law firm in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, before running for state representative in 2010.
According to the Florida Bar, Gaetz’s license was briefly suspended in 2021 due to unpaid fees, but he was reinstated after paying the $265 fee.
Gaetz has not practiced law extensively or consistently throughout his career. Instead, he has focused on his political career, serving as a state representative and later as a U.S. Representative from Florida’s 1st congressional district.”
Here is what the same ai gave when asking about Senator Cruz
“Yes, Ted Cruz has practiced law. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Cruz worked as a law clerk for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1995-1996) and then for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court (1996-1997). After his Supreme Court clerkship, Cruz worked in private practice as an associate at the law firm Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal (now Cooper & Kirk, PLLC) from 1997 to 1998, handling matters relating to the National Rifle Association and preparing testimony for the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton.
Additionally, Cruz served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008, where he argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning five and losing four. As Solicitor General, Cruz was responsible for representing the State of Texas in appeals involving state government.
After leaving the Solicitor General position in 2008, Cruz joined the Houston office of the Philadelphia-based law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice. During this time, he represented clients such as Pfizer and Linglong Tire in various legal matters.
Overall, Ted Cruz has had a significant legal career, including stints as a law clerk, private practice attorney, and Solicitor General of Texas.”
In other words the career politician first elected to public office in 2010 who doesn’t practice law, and has no significant legal history isn’t actually qualified for this extremely important job.
2. He has consistent and recent history to show the only person he could work with is himself. He has been a public official since 2010 and has zero allies in the political sphere. That isn’t being an anti-establishment champion (he has been a politician almost his entire adult life) that is being a not team player. Do you have any idea how important team work is to running things?
2. The Republican Senators do not want him. The number of senators who have already said no means he will never be AG. A best case scenario is his nomination goes down silently without causing a scandal.
3. Regardless of possible scandal when you go to congress it isn’t to be the best and most charismatic questioner of a guilty person people could watch on you tube (non-charismatic Republicans routinely do exactly the same good things he does there is nothing special about him) it is for a job. That job includes legislation, helping the party you say should be in charge increase power, helping the district you came from get the minor local things it wants etc. What he has shown is he could grandstand like AOC, he hasn’t shown anything else.
4. Being an effective AG is extremely difficult work, and there is nothing to suggest he could do it and a lot to say he can’t do a competent job.
5. There are much more qualified people to pick from.
I know I think we need someone who is competent as a lawyer, and a team player able to have people under him or her motivated to do a loyal and professional job instead of the best and most charismatic person (in a role that almost never sees a camera).
A politician could do a great job in such a role (Ted Cruz would be fantastic), a lawyer who has never been elected anything could do a great job (Alan Dershowitz would be great) but this politician who hasn’t practiced law since 2008, and didn’t practice law for very long before switching professions to politics is highly unlikely to be such a politician able to perform the role of AG very well.
Gadzooks. You mean, the director is not a subject-matter expert?
We got through the Biden Administration, where that was a job requirement.
We’ll do just fine.
According to ai search
“Based on the provided search results, Matt Gaetz has never been the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. According to the search results, he has been a member of the House Judiciary Committee since the 115th Congress, but he has not held the position of Chairman.”
Sorry to burst the bubble but Matt Gaetz has no relevant experience towards being AG, his history elsewhere indicates he would be atrociously bad at the job, and the senators on the Republican side do not want him likely for that reason with his current controversy just cementing their negative opinions of him.
Again this is WITHOUT the controversy.
According to ai search
You’re leaning a lot on that AI.
And who can forget Whoopi Goldberg’s breathtaking assertion that the Nazis and WWII weren’t really about race, just man’s inhumanity. That takes a special kind of ignorance, which for Whoopi is invincible.
I really don’t realize why people give Whoopi so much static about that. “Race Science” is something engaged in only by Nazis and Democrats. To everybody who isn’t a racial zealot, there are three races, characterized by simple morphological differences: Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid. Anything grosser than that (“human race”) is taxonomic, anything finer that than is nationality or tribal. Aryans and Semites are both Caucasoid. There are plenty of distinctions you can cite between those two classes, but race just isn’t one of them.
That word salad is in no way relevant to Whoopie Goldberg denying the Nazis had an agenda all about race.
If you read anything they wrote you will realize yes it was race uber alles to them.
Their ultimate agenda was extermination of all Jews unconditionally, and enslavement of all Slavs and extermination of educated classes of Slavs (hence why they exterminated somewhere between one of of four to one out of five Poles).
They had an agenda all about race and put that agenda into action.
Whoopie tried to rewrite that because she feels “Jews=Whites therefore the Holocaust should be kicked out of American discourse”.
The NAZI movement was not entirely about race. But race was a prime component of it. It became the emotional linchpin of the movement – what drew people in (aside from that whole “Applaud the man or join everyone else in the concentration camps” bit) to justify everything.
But there was more to it than hating other races. It was about ‘purifying’ the “Aryan” race, too. Hence the homosexuals and other “undesirables” being put in the camps with the Jews.
It was a whole nasty ball of evil, not just about the Jewish people.
Your explanation isn’t bad, henrybowman. But it isn’t what many people believe – progressives have been hard at work selling/imposing their views for a long time.
You also forgot the Jewish idea of “race”: Jews and “the peoples” (Gentiles).
And honestly, most “race” distinctions in history have not been scientific, but entirely based on “Would that person be able to fit into our tribe” to some degree. Its why Christianity was a bit out of the ordinary – it said none of those distinctions mattered in the important things. We all fit into the tribe of “sinner” and can fit into the tribe of “saint.”
She STILL owes Andrew Branca $100 from the Trayvon Martin case