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‘The View' co-host Joy Behar wants Trump's Iran strikes 'to have been successful'
‘The View' co-host Joy Behar wants Trump's Iran strikes 'to have been successful'

Fox News

time26-06-2025

  • Politics
  • Fox News

‘The View' co-host Joy Behar wants Trump's Iran strikes 'to have been successful'

Print Close By Gabriel Hays Published June 26, 2025 Fierce anti-Trump personality Joy Behar told her co-hosts on "The View" Thursday that she wants President Donald Trump to be successful in debilitating Iran's nuclear weapons program. While discussing the feud between Trump and the press over coverage of his ordered strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last Saturday, the co-host admitted she wanted Trump to have succeeded because of the threat a nuclear-armed Iran would pose to the world. "I personally would like it to have been successful," she said. TRUMP THRASHES CNN AS 'GUTLESS LOSERS' FOR COVERAGE OF US STRIKES ON IRAN Behar's statement came after she played clips of Trump calling CNN and MSNBC "scum" for reporting that the strikes may not have done as much damage as intended, according to leaked early intelligence estimates that have been harshly criticized by administration officials as misleading. Earlier this week, a handful of media outlets cast doubt on administration assertions that the strikes fully destroyed the Iranian facilities, including CNN publishing an exclusive Tuesday claiming, "US strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites," while the New York Times reported the Fordow nuclear facility was "severely damaged" but not "destroyed." Behar weighed in, first rebuking Trump for blasting the media. "First of all, why does he call them scum? Why does he have to do that – speak like that? It's so not presidential," she said. Behar went on to wonder if Trump was spinning the success of the strikes before an accurate assessment of the damage could be made. TRUMP ADDRESSES NATION ON 'SPECTACULAR MILITARY SUCCESS' OF US STRIKES ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR FACILITIES "Anyway, this was just a preliminary report and Trump's CIA director is backing their claim that the damage was severe. But if Trump was already – had made up his mind about this – he already made up his mind before he knew, and we knew what really happened. So is he obliterating the truth?" Despite bashing his behavior, Behar admitted she hoped Trump's attacks did destroy Iran's nuclear weapons program because of how dangerous the Iranian regime is. "I think Iran, a rogue state like that, having a nuclear bomb – I've been worrying about nuclear war since I'm a child hiding under a desk," she said. "I mean, I used to say, 'Why do I have to take my library books back? We're all going to die anyway.' That's when I was a child. So, I hope — I wanted him to be successful, but he lies so much that you never know what the truth is." CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed with Behar's point and expressed dismay over people who are against the strikes just because Trump ordered them. "Seventy-nine percent of Americans agree that Iran shouldn't have a nuclear weapon," she said. "There's obviously debate over these strikes. Many people oppose the strikes, but I would say this, if they were successful, that is the most likely outcome to keeping us from getting into a bigger war with Iran." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Griffin added, "We, as of now, are not on the cusp of World War Three, and I would encourage people to walk that language back." Print Close URL

'Insanity!': Lawrence O'Donnell Totally Puts CNN On Blast Over Its Biden Coverage
'Insanity!': Lawrence O'Donnell Totally Puts CNN On Blast Over Its Biden Coverage

Yahoo

time03-06-2025

  • Entertainment
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'Insanity!': Lawrence O'Donnell Totally Puts CNN On Blast Over Its Biden Coverage

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell hit CNN with a thinly-veiled, on-air attack Monday as he accused the network of failing to cover President Donald Trump's mental acuity like it has tackled Joe Biden's reported health decline. O'Donnell kicked off 'The Last Word' with talk of Trump recently reposting a bonkers conspiracy that Biden died in 2020 and was replaced with clones, calling the Truth Social share a 'complete collapse' of Trump's mental acuity. 'The insanity of the current American president is now officially taken for granted in the news media, no huge banners on the cable news network that recently devoted itself to the issue of presidential mental acuity,' he said. 'That network did not dare devote itself to the mental acuity of Donald Trump, that network decided that the mental acuity of Joe Biden is a more important story now.' Trump's repost, which has been subjected to a sea of criticism, is just the latest episode that'sfueledquestionsabout his cognitive ability. During his 2024 campaign, Trump rambled to the press, served up a word salad when asked about child care and bizarrely ranted about sharks and electric boats. Two of Trump's biographers, less than a month before his election win, also sounded the alarm on his 'degrading' cognitive ability on MSNBC. In recent weeks, CNN has highlighted a book co-written by host Jake Tapper on an alleged 'cover-up' of Biden's reported health decline, coverage that began just before the former president announced his prostate cancer diagnosis. O'Donnell noted that 'no one' at the network suggested Biden was 'incapable of doing the job as president.' Rather, O'Donnell said, the network's critique focused on the former president's incapability of 'delivering a sharp and polished television debate performance,' noting that this would've been true of every president before John F. Kennedy. What was 'lost in the relentless coverage' of the debate moment, he added, was that Biden made 'perfect sense' for the rest of the faceoff while Trump did the opposite. 'Donald Trump did not tell one true thing during that debate but that doesn't seem to matter,' O'Donnell stressed. He remarked that while Biden showed himself to be four years older and 'much slower' in the debate, he was still 'way more than four times smarter and more capable' than Trump. HuffPost has reached out to CNN for comment. Bill Clinton Makes Strong Claim About Joe Biden's Cognitive Health Trump Says 'If You Feel Sorry' For Biden, 'Don't Feel So Sorry' Biden On His Cancer Diagnosis: 'We're Going To Be Able To Beat This'

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