The liberal ladies at The View invited former Obama senior campaign advisor David Axelrod on the show Thursday, apparently just to bash Trump for how horrible his first 100 days in office have been. Axelrod, who now works as a senior political commentator for CNN, was warmly welcomed by the panel who gushed just a month ago that his former boss was their “favorite president.”
The hosts discussed just about every current fixation the media has with the Trump White House from Russia to wiretapping to Nunes.
Introducing Axelrod, host Whoopi Goldberg lamented, “Boy, do we miss him! And boy would he have his work cut out for him if was he still in the White House!” Whoopi didn’t waste any time and got straight to the demagoguery:
WHOOPI: So when you heard the new guy's claims that he had been wiretapped by Obama, did you get pissed?
Fellow host Joy Behar instead brought up the investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia, claiming it was as big a scandal as Watergate. She eagerly wondered if Trump would face the possibility of impeachment like Nixon did:
BEHAR: Not since Watergate have I seen anything like this in terms of corruption -- possible corruption in government. Do you think that Trump will end up like Nixon did?
When it was finally host Sunny Hostin’s turn, she asked point blank why the Republican health care replacement plan was “such a failure”:
SUNNY HOSTIN: The Republicans had seven years to come up with some sort of replacement. It didn't happen. Why was this such a failure?
Laughably, Axelrod said it was because Obamacare was “such a success,” no plan apparently could compare to it:
AXELROD: It was such a failure because the Affordable Care Act in many ways was such a success. The fact is it's changed a lot of lives. Tens of millions of people -- tens of millions of people have health care who didn't have health care, new benefits under insurance policies that are basic to health care, and Medicaid expanded. That's why so many Republican governors were opposed to the law. This was a collision of a political slogan with practicality with the reality in people's lives. I will tell you I was there with the Affordable Care Act, and we can debate it, and there is no doubt it can be improved and it should be improved.
He went on to say that overall the plan was a good thing, because people like him, who had family members with chronic illnesses were greatly helped with the ACA.
More moderate hosts Sara Haines and Jedediah Bila also centered their questions around conflict of interest concerns around Devin Nunes and Ivanka Trump’s roles.
