The View's Sara Haines doles out brutal advice to Trump-hating viewers that they won't want to hear

Daily Mail​

3 days ago

The View co-host Sara Haines offered her colleagues and others who constantly bash President Donald Trump some sage advice on the show Wednesday.
Haines suggested that Trump critics should 'pick your battles' during a discussion about the president's controversial pardon of reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley.
The Chrisley Knows Best stars were found guilty of federal charges of tax evasion and conspiring to swindle community banks in 2022, and Todd was originally sentenced to 12 years in prison while Julie was sentenced to seven. Both terms have since been shortened.
On Wednesday's show, Ana Navarro insisted that 'we have to not normalize this and allow it to continue to happen,' saying that it is 'not normal or honest or ethical' that 'there's a For Sale sign on the lawn of the White House.'
She claimed that with the Chrisleys pardons, Trump is proving that 'if you are a supporter, if you are a donor, then you can buy pardons.'
But Haines disagreed.
'Everyone reacts to everything saying "Don't normalize this" whenever Trump does something outrageous,' she noted, arguing: 'There's a strategy to picking your battles.'
She went on to use what she described as 'proverbs' to prove her point, telling the audience: 'The man who chases two rabbits catches neither' and 'When you yell at everything, nobody hears anything.'
'There's a strategy to not jumping every time he does something,' Haines argued, claiming that Trump pardoning his supporters is 'not surprising.'
Still, Haines said she did not want to insinuate that 'any of this is not bad' as she tried to direct the audience on where to direct their anger at the president.
'I'm more upset about the Qatari jet, the January 6th pardons - which were violent criminals, the deportations without due process, the attacks on federal institutions with no cause,' she said.
'Those, to me, are fundamentally way more problematic.'
But when she was done, woke co-host Joy Behar noted: 'That's a lot of rabbits you listed.'
It now appears that Haines may have been following the guidance of her bosses at ABC News and Disney, who have reportedly asked the notoriously liberal panel to dial back their constant complaining about the president.
ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic suggested the women needed to broaden their conversations, highlighting episodes with celebrity guests that he said earned high ratings.
Disney CEO Bob Iger reportedly made a similar request.
But Navarro has argued that viewers tune in to hear the panel's perspective on politics and is said to have taken it upon herself to push back against the Disney boss.
In doing so, however, Navarro may have made a dangerous error, as Fox News reports that her co-hosts actually 'agree' with Iger and are happy to change the direction of the show.
The stars are also said to fear that 'ignoring Bob Iger seems like a terrible decision' as bosses on the talk show are famously brutal with dumping stars who do not play by the rules or who are disliked by the audience.
'The View is a daytime network talk show and needs to do more than just politics and Trump bashing. This was a welcome direction for many of us,' one source explained.
Many audience members, though, were outraged by Haines' remarks
Even so, Haines' comments on Wednesday appeared to have set off a firestorm among its liberal audience members - many of whom took to X to express their outrage at her remarks.
'So Sara is normalizing Trump pardoning criminals because Trump has too many other things for us to be mad about?!' one user wrote, as another added, 'the s*** can still be called out Sara.'
A third asked what Haines was 'babbling about.'
'"Not jumping every time Trump does something?!" Then maybe he shouldn't keep doing/getting away with so many egregious acts, you dingbat!?!' the X user wrote, while a fourth said they were 'sorry, not sorry' for their remarks toward Haines.
'Why shouldn't we be outraged at EVERY unethical or illegal act he does,' the X user wrote, rhetorically.