Joy Behar lets slip that The View is going on hiatus
'I'm allowed to say that, right?' she said to someone off camera, suggesting the news was big. 'Too late now,' Alyssa Farah Griffin joked, as Behar and the other hosts were left looking up at the audience.
'It doesn't really matter,' a voice off-screen said. The audience laughed in response. Behar made the admission, which describing recent unrest from Republicans regarding unreleased excerpts of the 'Epstein Files.'
She then launched an attack on Donald Trump, saying 'the tide is turning' against him in that regard. 'The tide is turning and things are changing,' Behar said, citing the Wall Street Journal's decision to publish a story about Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this week.
'I mean, the ultimate irony would be that Rupert Murdoch will take him down, Fox News who created the monster will take him down,' she said of the Journal's owner - a notorious conservative. Behar also brought up how Marjorie Taylor Greene's recent declaration that she 'does not accept' how Trump's team has handled the Epstein case.
Behar also touched on the Journal's refusal to retract after Trump filed a $10 billion suit claiming it was false. The report claimed Trump wrote a 'bawdy' birthday card to Epstein in 2023 that included a sketch of a naked woman and his signature.
Other figures like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk have all turned on Trump since 'over Epstein', Behar pointed out. 'This goes on and on and on. The QAnon shaman is turning on him', she laughed.
'He's now calling him a fraud and a piece of whatever.' The View generally takes a summer hiatus once a year. The women just returned from that break a few weeks ago. Trump, meanwhile, recently called for the show's cancelation over what he has framed as liberal bias, despite it being an opinion program.
Steven Colbert's The Late Show on CBS was canceled last week. Some have claimed that was to placate Trump, while others - including the Tiffany Network - have said the cancelation was due to financial reasons. A piece from Puck pegged Colbert's show as a money pit that's been losing $40 million a year.
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