Whoopi Goldberg Offers Ridiculous Defense of Karine Jean-Pierre’s Stolen Election Claims

Elected officials have no right to claim that an election was stolen or not fair — only private citizens can and then they are “doing their part.” Apparently, that is the message that one co-host of “The View” appears…

Bradley CortrightSep 7, 20223 min read

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Co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in to argue, “I will say that when Trump became president, I think people were so very shocked. Even considering the Electoral College and that sort of thing.”

“The assumption, at least mine, I’ll speak for myself, was that Russia must have been involved, because we knew from the Mueller report that Russia had some involvement. Russia thought that it could benefit from the Trump presidency,” Hostin continued. “But I remember calling him an illegitimate president.”

To her credit, Hostin acknowledged, “That was wrong. I should not have said that because he was not an illegitimate president.”

However, Goldberg chimed in to note that Hostin had the right to claim that former President Donald Trump was an illegitimate president.

Yes, Hostin had a right to call Trump illegitimate. And Jean-Pierre had the right to claim that the elections in 2016 and 2018 were stolen. And Trump and his supporters have the right to claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Even though there is no evidence that any of those elections were stolen, and it’s dangerous to undermine trust in our electoral system.

Freedom of speech does not end just because someone is elected to Congress or any position, though we should expect better behavior from our elected officials.

But to suggest that Jean-Pierre was “doing her part” by questioning the result of the 2016 election while she has yet to state she was wrong or at least mistaken is ridiculous.

People who raised doubts about the past election don’t technically have to apologize and say that they were wrong for doing so. But it’s hypocritical for them to defend those past comments while criticizing others for raising doubts about a different election — especially when they are now a public figure.

And it doesn’t really matter that Jean-Pierre was a private citizen when she made those claims. The tweets are still up and asserting that the elections were stolen. And when she was confronted about them, she just brushed off the question by claiming she was talking about voting rights.