"A Moral Issue": ABC Hosts Promote Excluding Trump-Voting Family From Holiday Gatherings

Ubiquitous <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:28:24 -0500
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Several of the hosts of ABC’s “The View” argued on Tuesday that Americans 
should consider cutting family members and friends out of their traditional 
holiday get-togethers if they voted for President-elect Donald Trump.

Stating that it was a “moral issue,” Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg pushed 
the idea during the midday broadcast. The pair suggested that those people 
deserved to be cut out because they had voted against people they claimed to 
love — and Goldberg worried that they might say offensive things to any gay 
children who might be present.

Sara Haines kicked off the discussion, and she was opposed to the idea.

“Whatever your reason is, I would never let my politics be the reason I don’t 
show up to see my family because they want me to be there,” she said.

“I’m gonna disagree,” Hostin said. “I completely understand her point because 
I really do feel that this candidate, you know, President-elect Trump is just 
a different type of candidate. From the things he’s said and the things he’s 
done, and the things he will do, it’s more of a moral issue for me, and I 
think it’s more of a moral issue for other people.”

Hostin went on to claim that she would have felt differently about former 
President George W. Bush — who was also referred to by many on the left as 
“Hitler” on a regular basis — because she didn’t feel like he was as “deeply 
flawed” as Trump.

“Deeply flawed by character, deeply flawed in morality,” Hostin continued. “I 
think when people feel that someone voted not only against their families but 
against them, and against people that they love, I think it’s okay to take a 
beat.

WATCH;

	Whoopi also suggests people shouldn't visit Trump-voting family for 
	the holidays because they're going to lash out and attack their gay 
	children.
	She also seemed the suggest the same thing for racially "mixed 
	families." pic.twitter.com/h3l2rVQi39

	— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 12, 2024

“I appreciate the voters, but I will say, somebody who tells me that my child 
is wrong because of how he or she feels, that tells me that they shouldn’t be 
allowed to be who they are with my permission, I have to question it,” 
Goldberg added. “I don’t want to put my kid in that position. I don’t want to 
put my gay child in a position where she has to sit with someone who doesn’t 
understand her and feels like it’s okay to just blurt all of that out. That’s 
just me.”

“With mixed families I feel the same way,” she added. “There are certain 
things where you don’t have to put your family in the middle of it. You can 
have dinner at another point but it might not be the time to gather because 
you know there’s gonna be some tension … but I’m not tense, my daughter’s not 
gay.”

Goldberg explained that she’d had to clear that last bit up, so she didn’t 
get a call from her daughter about it.

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