'The View' condemns killing of Charlie Kirk despite contentious history
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NEW YORK — The cast of ABC’s “The View” solemnly condemned Wednesday’s killing of Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus, despite the liberal-leaning show’s contentious history with the right-wing activist.
“I don’t know how to start this because it’s just beyond devastating,” outspoken moderator Whoopi Goldberg began.
She then rolled clips of liberal and conservative politicians denouncing Kirk’s murder.
“Isn’t a fundamental part of being an American that we are able to express our opinions to each other without fear? Without this kind of horror happening?” Goldberg asked rhetorically.
The consensus among the panel, which includes former Trump administration official Alyssa Farah Griffin, was that the killing left a wife and her two young kids without a patriarch and only further worsened political discourse in the country.
“The View” had a very different conversation about Kirk and the Turning Point USA organization he co-founded when the ladies were compelled to apologize for claiming that a neo-Nazi group that had gathered outside one of their Florida events was part of the festivities.
“I put the young people at the conference in the same category as the protesters outside,” Goldberg said on the show in 2022. “I don’t like it when people make assumptions about me and it’s not any better when I make assumptions about other people, which I did.”
Co-host Sara Haines had earlier read a statement from Turning Point USA that said the group “100% condemns” Nazi ideology and that there was a reason the protesters were not inside the venue.
According to Fox News Digital, the statements made on “The View” came after Turning Point USA sent a cease-and-desist letter to ABC News.
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