MEDIA WINNER: Sunny Hostin
The View's Sunny Hostin went after her co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin for ignoring far-right group the Proud Boys while former President Donald Trump was in office.
On Friday's edition of The View, Griffinrevealed she was never briefed about the Proud Boys while working for Trump despite the fact that the former president told the group to “stand back and stand by" in a debate before the 2020 election.
Members of the Proud Boys later stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
“The lesson I learned with Trump is you have to take him seriously and literally with what he says. And he uses language intentionally to reach certain audiences," Farah said on Friday. "I remember watching that ‘Proud Boys stand back and stand by,’ and honestly I had never even heard of the Proud Boys."
The comment prompted Hostin to question Farah's handling of the debate comment, as she was Trump's White House communications director at the time. “Did you not see that then? I think I remember reading when you were his press secretary, you didn’t think that he needed a clarification,” said Hostin, calling Farah's response to the debate "odd."
Farah continued to insist that she did not know who the Proud Boys were until they began violently protesting.
“I think Black people need to know enemies of people of color,” said Hostin.
“But when you have clearly a supremacist and, quite frankly, not to push too much on you, it was your job to know about that, right, as press secretary. But why would you not think that that’s crazy?” |