Meghan McCain really stuck her foot in it this time. And by it we mean the space backstage because gurl stormed off set after yet another testy exchange with a cohost.
The ladies of The View were as usual getting political, discussing the HUGE but disappointingly porn-star-free scandal blowing up around Donald Trump this week.
In very, very short, here’s a breakdown of the scandal thus far:
- A whistleblower in the US intelligence community filed a complaint with the Inspector General last month, reportedly claiming Trump made some kind of “troubling” promise to the leader of a foreign nation. The IG tells Congress what was revealed is an “urgent concern.”
- Many believe this is in relation to the odd negotiation with the Ukraine in which the U.S. agreed to give them $250 mil in aid then Trump inexplicably blocked it — only to change his mind again.
- There have since been reports from sources in the intelligence community claiming Trump held back the money until the Ukraine agreed to help him out with the 2020 election by launching an investigation into Joe Biden and his son Hunter — thus making his chief rival look crooked.
- On Thursday Rudy Giuliani went on TV and admitted he asked the Ukrainian government to investigate Biden. Oh Rudy…
- Meanwhile the White House and Trump’s handpicked Attorney General are trying to sweep the whistleblower’s complaint — whatever it turns out to be — under the rug by threatening him/her with prosecution, something from which whistleblowers uncovering public corruption are supposed to be legally protected.
Phew. That’s a lot of Hot Topic.
So what did John McCain‘s daughter have to say about it? She kinda sorta made it about herself.
Meghan seemingly was attempting to use the new scandal as ammo to win a fight with Pamela Anderson she lost TWO WEEKS AGO. She said:
“We had Pamela Anderson on a week ago, two weeks ago, and I took her to task about Julian Assange. And there’s a lot of liberals who are OK with Julian Assange releasing Hillary’s emails. OK, he’s a quote ‘whistleblower’ — I called him a cyberterrorist. And now the same people are screaming bloody murder about this whistleblower. I think all interference from a foreign country in our election, all of it, is bad and should be condemned, and you can’t play party politics with this. There’s a lot of people on the left who are doing that.”
Didn’t understand that?
Yeah, neither did anyone at the table.
Her argument is that if you think THIS whistleblower should be protected, you should be against someone else who is considered a whistleblower?
Um, what?
Meghan reiterated:
“If you have a problem with this whistleblower, and you think he’s a hero, you should have a problem with Wikileaks as well.”
Joy Behar tried to tell her as a liberal she doesn’t have a problem with this whistleblower and in fact thinks they’re just trying to protect us from corruption. Meghan didn’t seem to get it.
They tried again to ask her to clarify, and she stumbled over her words in a way you could tell she was just about to figure out what she was saying didn’t make sense…
As the rest of the table all tried to come together on where everyone stood on the new whistleblower, Trump’s alleged request for election interference, and the mystery of Julian Assange, recurring guest host Ana Navarro tried to partially agree with Meghan:
“I think Julian Assange is a traitor –“
But Meghan had also begun speaking at that moment. So she acted with her usual umbrage of being the poor, persecuted, sole Republican at the table (even though on Friday’s show, as is not that unusual lately, there were three Republican women), loudly interrupting:
“Excuse me!! Maybe I was clumsy in the way that I said it, but I’m —
Ana shot back:
“I’m two feet away, I don’t need you to scream at me.”
When Meghan said she didn’t hear her, Ana said more firmly:
“I said don’t scream at me. I’m two feet away.”
As the audience buzzed over the clapback, you could just FEEL the heat coming off of Meghan from beneath her Purple Rain cosplay.
As Joy quickly read the outro to go to commercial, Meghan could be heard speaking over her:
“That’s so rude, Ana!”
Afterward Meghan reportedly got up and stormed off the set!
She was back after the commercial break, so she must have just needed a minute to cool off and collect herself.
You can watch as the discussion devolves into disarray in the second part of The View‘s take on Trump’s latest scandal (below)!
Maybe a calm and collected Meghan could have just pointed out the difference between Assange and this whistleblower instead of trying to tie them together.
You know, how this one is a US intelligence officer who saw something problematic and felt they had to say something, which should not be at all controversial.
Whereas Assange is a controversial figure because during the 2016 election he leaked the emails of just Hillary Clinton and the DNC, which according to our intelligence community were hacked by Russia in its effort to get Trump elected. So whether as a “useful idiot” or not, he was helping Russia interfere.
We think ultimately Meghan meant to compare Assange’s election interference with what Trump is allegedly asking the Ukrainian government to do?
In any case, she has got to get better at making her point and not getting so upset with the rest of the table. Because frankly this mess is what it sounds like when doves cry.
[Image via The View/YouTube.]
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