Ahead of Vice President J.D. Vance’s appearance on ABC’s purported “bona fide news program” The View this week, the third conservative to appear on The View all year, NewsBusters wanted to take a jaunt down memory lane to look back at what they’ve said about him. They’ve claimed he teamed up with Elon Musk to assassinate President Trump, called him “sociopathic,” mocked his name, and suggest he and Trump were responsible for the assassination attempts; among many others. Here are some of the nasty things The View had spewed about him.
A month after President Trump had won the 2024 presidential election, and a few months after back-to-back attempts on Trump’s life, moderator Whoopi Goldberg and co-host Joy Behar teamed up to suggest Vance and Musk were plotting to murder Trump in the White House by pushing him down the stairs:
GOLDBERG: I’ve called [Elon Musk] vice president. I’ve called him president because I don't know what J.D. is doing. I hardly ever -- I don't remember the last time we even talked about J.D.
HOSTIN: You’re right.
BEHAR: He’s planning the presidency when they get rid of Trump.
GOLDBERG: So, you think it's Musk/Vance?
BEHAR: Possible.
GOLDBERG: Hmm. Hey, you-know-who, stay away from the stairways. Because, you know, people put their leg out to trip you going down the stairs. Watch out.
ABC News moderators Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar claim Elon Musk and JD Vance are planning to kill Trump and usurp control of the government together as Musk/Vance.
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 19, 2024
"[Trump] stay away from the stairways." - Whoopi pic.twitter.com/bMRmOSwdrk
Even before the election, they were trying to poison the American electorate against Vance. While downplaying Governor Tim Walz’s lie about being in Tiananmen Square for the massacre, Behar suggested Vance was the “sociopathic” liar, and even got backup from faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin:
BEHAR: But they’re both pathological liars.
FARAH GRIFFIN: That's true, but I just mean from the ability standpoint.
BEHAR: That’s the problem. They are sociopathic liars, the two of them. I've never seen such straight faces, the mendacity.
In the same episode, Goldberg, whose first name was a device that made fart noises, mocked Vance’s name by suggesting the “J.D.” stood for “juvenile delinquent.”
In September of 2024, Goldberg took particular issue with Vance accurately calling out the left’s rhetoric for inciting the attempts on Trump’s life. According to her, Trump and Vance were responsible to the assassins:
J.D., clearly you’ve not been to one of your boss's rallies, because you believe this insanity. I mean, he has been inciting violence since 2016 telling them to beat up hecklers, threaten to shoot looters and migrants…YOU have to really take a look in a mirror to see the reflection…So, quit blaming folks until you decide to take a look at what's coming out of your mouth!
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You know, let's stop this both sides stuff because it's not correct! It is not both sides! It is one clear side! And you can point to many, many reports, you can point to all kinds of stuff that's been reported! You guys have to -- you have to pull it back! This is not us or them! This is you got to stop doing what you're doing, J.D.!
Co-host Sunny Hostin once said Vance’s hope for a more conservative America was a “very dark vision,” while co-host Sara Haines called it “ominous” and said it “haunted” her.
More recently, in May of this year, Hostin partially blamed Vance for California Democrat Katie Porter yelling at her staff:
We know that there is a double standard. And I have got to tell you, the bar is so very low when you look at J.D. Vance, the way he behaves, you look at Pete Hegseth, you look at Donald Trump. It trickles down from the top. We have seen the worst -- the worst behavior in the Republican Party.
Hopefully, Vance will return the favor and press The View cast on these lies and question them about how they’re purportedly a “bona fide news program.”
