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New York Post
20-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
‘The View' melts down over Tapper's Biden cover-up book, slams CNN for ‘hawking' it
'The View' co-hosts melted down on Tuesday while discussing the new book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson about the cover-up of former President Joe Biden's decline while in office, with some deflecting criticism of Democrats and instead slamming the reporting itself. Co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin criticized President Donald Trump throughout the discussion, wondering why it was important to learn about the Biden cover-up now amid what they claimed were Trump's 'atrocities' early in his second term. Advertisement Tapper and Thompson's book, 'Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,' was released Tuesday. 'All he is doing is hawking his book on CNN, and he's flanked by other people — Brian Stelter and Van Jones — also hawking his book,' Behar said, referring to Tapper. 'When did CNN become a place to hawk your book? Is Wolf Blitzer coming out with a cookbook?' she asked. 'When is Jake Tapper going to write about the cognitive decline of the person in charge right now?' Behar asked earlier in the discussion. Advertisement Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin defended Tapper and Thompson, saying, 'And this is where I take issue with some folks on the left. They're 'We stand with journalists. We stand with the free press.' When they're going after their opponents, like Donald Trump, but when they critically cover Democrats, 'Oh, no, they're lying. It's fairy dust. It's not true.'' Griffin noted that criticism from Biden's family was to be expected, as his granddaughter, Naomi Biden, rebuked the book, calling it 'political fairy smut.' 'The View' co-hosts criticized CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson's new book. CNN 'With political figures attacking these two, how is that pro-democracy? How is that pro-fourth estate to say, 'Oh, but when you come after Democrats, suddenly you're liars'?' Griffin added. Advertisement Goldberg questioned the sources in the book, and asked why they weren't able to come forward during his presidency. 'If you're telling me that hundreds of people knew that he was not able to do his job, then where the hell was everybody?' Goldberg asked. Hostin noted that Tapper had said most of the reporting from the book came after the election, before directing her criticism at former Trump officials who wrote books after serving in his first term. Co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin also took shots at President Trump and wonder why learning about the Biden cover-up matters now, while stating that Trump has had some 'atrocities' at the start of his second term. ABC Advertisement 'What I do think that we should be very, very concerned about are the people who were in the Trump administration that did hold on to information about how Trump was conducting the presidency, saw they could make money off of their book,' Hostin said. 'We're talking about former national security adviser John Bolton, who came on the show hawking his book, and I told him, 'Why didn't you say something before?' Former Attorney General Bill Barr, he wrote a book, didn't say anything while he was in there. Former Secretary Mark Esper and that White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, all of them knew what Trump was, who he was, how he was doing it.' Biden sat for an interview with 'The View' in early May, addressing criticisms of a health cover-up, his initial decision to run for re-election and his later decision to exit the race. Former first lady Jill Biden also joined the former president as the pair shot back at allegations of a cover-up, calling the many books about the former president 'wrong.' 'They are wrong,' Joe Biden said, before Jill Biden jumped in to say 'that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us.' The former first lady insisted the former president worked nonstop at the White House.
New York Post
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘The View' co-host Joy Behar worries Pope Francis will be replaced by a ‘conservative guy'
'The View' co-host Joy Behar reacted to Pope Francis' death on Tuesday and lamented that the late Pontiff could be replaced by some 'conservative guy.' 'I wonder because there might be a backlash against how good he was and how much humility he had compared to some of the leaders in this world right now, so there might be a backlash to it, and they'll get some conservative guy in there who, you know, is anti-gay and everything else,' Behar said. Advertisement Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, died Monday morning, Vatican camerlengo Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced. The Pope's funeral is set for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter's Square. Co-host Sunny Hostin also said she hoped Francis would be replaced by someone similar to him and talked about how she had struggled with being a Catholic due to sex scandals and the Church's views on the LGBTQ+ community. 'I've struggled with being a Catholic, but this pope changed things for me,' she said. 'I remember I was having this discussion with you, Joy, about how I feel like there's a crisis of empathy in this country, that unless it happens to you, you can't feel the empathy of it happening to somebody else. They're going to deport that person. It's not going to affect my family, so I don't care that it's affecting others,' Hostin said. 4 Co-host Sunny Hostin also said she hoped Francis would be replaced by someone similar to him. ABC Advertisement 4 Joy Behar said that she was worried that the late Pope Francis would be replaced with someone with more conservative views. ABC Hostin said she watched a '60 Minutes' interview with the Pope and quoted him saying, 'We have to get over our hearts to feel again. We cannot remain indifferent in the face of such human dramas. The globalization of indifference is a very ugly disease.' Hostin then added to his quote, saying that she thought it was a condition that 'this country is suffering from.' Co-host Whoopi Goldberg recalled her 2023 visit with Pope Francis during the show on Tuesday. 'Listen, he brought, and this sounds crazy, but he brought 100 comedians from around the world. One hundred of us into meet with him. And what he said was, 'I want to laugh more, we all need to laugh more,' and then he looked at the 100 of us, and he said, 'what you do is very important, because without you, it's a grayer day,'' Goldberg said. Advertisement 4 Pope Francis waves from the Popemobile on his way to attend the Via Crucis on Copacabana Beach during World Youth Day celebrations on July 26, 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Getty Images 4 Joy Behar attends Joy Behar, Susan Lucci, Sherri Shepherd And Judy Gold In Conversation: My First Ex-Husband at 92NY on March 19, 2025 in New York City. Getty Images 'He is exactly what I hoped he would be, which is a pope for all people regardless of religion, which I really appreciated, and I wanted to thank him for all of my gay friends, and for all of my divorced friends, because he basically has said, listen, God loves you no matter what. Come back to the church. I appreciated that,' Goldberg said in an October 2023 episode of 'The View,' during which she discussed meeting Francis. Advertisement The Pope preached frequently on the Catholic virtues of mercy, kindness and humility. He did not shy away from controversy. And American presidents, including Donald Trump and Joe Biden, were not immune from his views. Less than a month into President Donald Trump's presidency, the Pontiff criticized the Republican's plans for the mass deportations of migrants, stressing that the forceful removal of people simply for their immigration status deprives them of their inherent dignity and 'will end badly.'
