The "View" co-hosts' antipathy for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., turned into joking about violence toward the lawmaker on Friday.
The co-hosts of the ABC daytime talk show insisted that McCarthy’s crossfit-trained colleague Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., could "probably kick his butt," with co-host Ana Navarro concluding that she and her co-hosts could do the same.
The segment started off withe panel ridiculing the newly-minted Republican House speaker for putting the congresswoman on various important congressional committees.
Joy Behar framed the topic, saying, "Speaker Kevin McCarthy assigned [Greene] to the Oversight and Homeland Security committees even though she’s an election denier who said the January 6th insurrection would have worked if she was in charge. He also put her on the COVID subcommittee despite the fact she’s an anti-vaxxer."
Behar asked, "Who would be better at this than an anti-vaxxer?" before lamenting, "This is the country we live in right now. McCarthy made it clear he has her back, saying, ‘He’ll never leave that woman, ever.’ So I say to my panel, why is this idiot hitching his star to this clown?"
Navarro promptly answered the question, noting how desperate McCarthy was for votes: "Because it took him 15 damn votes to become speaker and he needed every single one."
Navarro then harped on the rough political fortunes she believes McCarthy has found himself in, including having Rep. George Santos, R-N. Y., in Congress as well. "It’s not a hard question to answer. Listen. Kevin McCarthy is saddled with the likes of pathological lying George Santos and conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene," she said.... (Read more)
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