Do you remember being a kid and pleading to your parents “it was a joke” when getting caught in a lie or saying something nasty to someone? Well, that was the reaction moderator Whoopi Goldberg had when ABC News forced her to correct a lie she spewed on Monday’s episode of The View. Goldberg raged, tore up the note (not a legal note), and whined about how she had to be held accountable for the lies she told and blamed it on the people watching.
The comment that got Goldberg in hot water was a lie about how President Trump, according to her, used and autopen to sign a pardon for a crypto bro with connections to his sons:
HOSTIN: The Trump family has made about $1.8 billion profited off of this government and he said that Joe Biden didn't know who he was pardoning using an autopen. How come you don't know who this guy is?
[Applause]
GOLDBERG: Because he used an autopen.
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