On Monday’s episode of “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg called out Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) for his claims that Democrats were just as guilty of inciting violence as Republicans. The host first played a clip of U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment. And then played Paul’s appearance on “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace” where he proclaimed, “You can’t just criminalize Republican free speech and ignore all the Democrats who have incited violence.”
“That’s a false equivalent,” Goldberg responded, noting how Democrats like California’s Maxine Waters have rallied crowds but stopped well short of encouraging violence. “You can say Maxine Waters told people to get in people’s faces — we can point to 565 million times you-know-who incited violence. So I’m just going to point that out. One, two, three, four, five bad ideas perhaps… but 100 million bad ideas from the man who told people to take care of business like that? Come on.”
Goldberg turned the question to her co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines, asking if they thought that this kind of conflict meant that it would be an uphill battle for the Senate to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial beginning this week.
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