Speaking during the Monday, June 17 episode of ABC’s “The View,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed that former President Donald Trump is “one of the biggest crooks in the country.” That came when she was attacking Trump for a campaign event at a Detroit area church, an event during which a pastor thanked Trump for coming, unlike Obama.
That pastor said, during the event, “President Trump, I’m so humbled that you would be here. President Obama never came to the hood, so to speak, right? President Joe Biden, he went to the big NAACP dinner, but he never came to the hood. So thank you.” Trump, for his part, replied, as the audience cheered, “My honor.”
Whoopi Goldberg, in any case, attacked Trump for the visit, labeling him a “convicted felon” and faulting him for appearing at the church and speaking about the economy. She said, “So one of the biggest crooks in the country, and by that, 34 counts is what I’m talking about, a convicted felon is telling black people that people are coming for their jobs. This is the narrative that is being pushed to black voters.”
She then went on to suggest that, unlike reports of the event as being Detroit-area black voters coming to see the former president and hear him speak, really the church was not full of such people. She said, “And they keep saying, you know, oh black people are going to him. Can we look at the church? Can we get a visual of the church?”
Then, after being shown footage of the Detroit church event, Whoopi changed her tune and instead insisted that they really must not have known what they were attending when they showed up at the Trump event. She said, “Now, I’m not sure that most of these people even knew where that church was before they knew he was coming there.”
Responding, “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in and spoke broadly about why politicians are showing up at churches, saying, “Well, I think that we see politicians go to churches five to six months before an election because they try to earn our vote. I think they need to continuously go to black churches year after year after year because black churches have been sort of the bastion of the Civil Rights Movement, and it’s a political thing for us, you know.”
Hostin then, like Whoopi, said that there weren’t black voters at the church. She said, “I didn’t see a lot of black people there. So I will say this, I think that, I don’t know how much longer we have to say, this isn’t about black voters choosing between Biden and Trump. This is about black voters choosing between Biden and the couch, okay? It’s not about Trump.”
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Trump, though far from gaining the same numbers as Biden with black voters, he is managing to do well at picking away at some of the Democrats’ former stranglehold on that demographic, working past double digit percentages with a voting block that Democrats need to win nearly the entirety of to remain in power, in many elections.
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