On Wednesday, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton went on ABC’s The View to promote her latest children’s book, She Persisted in Science.
Before long, Clinton pivoted to bashing former President Donald Trump and pledging fealty to current President Joe Biden.
Co-host Sunny Hostin asked Clinton about Biden’s State of the Union. Hostin said, “You studied at Oxford international relations,” Hostin remarked to Clinton. “What did you think about the speech?”
Clinton answered, “For the president, my main feeling and this is really what I felt watching, you know, in my living room here in New York City, is he’s so proud to be an American. And he wants what’s best for our country… So listening to that speech, that sense of pride, and that sense of, you know, I can tell my children, as worried as we are, we are in safe hands. We are in safe hands.”
She went on to discuss Biden’s statements on Ukraine.
“It was heartening to see the bipartisan consensus of support for democracy and for human rights and for what is fundamentally right last night. And so I want to focus on that, and I want to do everything I can to continue to support an America where partisanship stops at the water’s edge and where we do support our president. This is beyond partisanship,” she said.
“As a Democrat, I do believe that our president, our party has the policies that are most popular with the American people. And if the American people are able to vote, we will have good outcomes in the midterm elections.”
Still, for all her talk about unity, Clinton devoted much of her airtime to bashing Trump. “After the last administration, just that feeling of, like, ‘Oh, God, like, thank you. Thank you for that pride.’ I felt included in that pride, and it was so palpable,” she said.
Co-host Joy Behar followed up, “Trump is calling our leaders dumb and Putin and genius. It’s like, it still boggles my mind. What do you think is behind this with him? What is he up to?”
“I don’t know. I try to not pay attention to the twice impeached, disgraced former president of the United States,” Clinton answered.
She also fielded a question about the civil and criminal investigations into Trump’s businesses.
“I certainly, y’know, don’t know what our new D.A. Alvin Bragg is thinking,” Clinton said. “I do, though, strongly support our attorney general Tish James, who I think deserves enormous credit for tackling criminal behavior and, kind of, is doing so in a nonpartisan way. She’s holding power to account.”
The View has long served as a pressure cooker for media drama. Last year Meghan McCain, an outspoken establishment conservative, left her position as co-host of the show. She cited “toxic, direct and purposeful hostility.”
Last month the co-host Whoopi Goldberg came under fire for a remark dismissing the Holocaust. She suffered a two-week suspension.
Just last Friday, Behar said she was worried about the Russo-Ukrainian War because it could impact her upcoming vacation to Italy.
A day after Clinton’s appearance, Behar suffered a nasty fall on air. Behar, 79, did not report any injuries, but she managed to push Clinton’s interview out of the news cycle.
Watch the interview here —
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