Joy Behar bemoans ‘annoying’ CNN audience ‘filled with’ Trump’s ‘cult’
Julia Johnson
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The View reacted on Thursday to former President Donald Trump’s Wednesday night CNN town hall, during which he earned a standing ovation and several rounds of applause from the audience of Republican and undecided New Hampshire GOP primary voters.
“I was wrong,” Joy Behar said, referring to her initial defense of the network for holding the event.
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“I can’t stand him, as you know, but he’s the front-runner for the Republican Party,” she said last week. “Let them do it. It is a free country. This is America. Let him go out there and let him show again to the American people that he’s a sociopath.”
Behar added that her co-host Sunny Hostin was right. Hostin had said she was “disgusted” by CNN’s choice to hold the event with Trump.
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“She said they shouldn’t show him. And I said they should because I’m a very big defender of the First Amendment, and I believe that everybody should show who they really are, and let’s vote accordingly,” Behar said.
However, the host said she was unaware “that the audience would be filled with his cult.”
She was referring to the fact that the audience consisted of Republican primary voters, many of which appeared to show support for Trump.
“I would like to know if CNN was passing out Kool-aid before the event started,” she said.
Alyssa Farah Griffin disagreed with her co-hosts, telling them, “America got to see who he is last night: A ranting, raving lunatic who sided with Vladimir Putin [and] said he would restart family separation. He didn’t win a single voter. That was radioactive for independents and moderates.”
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However, Hostin reiterated her stance that “I don’t think he should have been given a platform.”
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who hosted the town hall with Trump, is expected to be promoted to Chris Cuomo’s former prime-time slot at the network. The host attempted to fact-check the former president during the event, earning her the title “nasty person” from Trump.