The View co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin opined that ex-President Donald Trump going to the funeral of a New York detective was seen as “good imagery,” but Whoopi Goldberg disagreed, mentioning Trump’s history of caring about police.
For context, Farah Griffin was actually discussing how Trump might lose the 2024 election, saying that his lack of impulse control would turn off undecided moderates and independent voters. While discussing Trump’s presence at the funeral of fallen NYPD officer Jonathan Diller, Farah Griffin said while that was “good imagery” for Trump, he followed it up by sharing an “offensive, dangerous” image of President Joe Biden.
While making her point, Goldberg disagreed with her perspective:
Farah Griffin: [W]hat will lose Trump this election? I don’t think it’s abortion, I don’t think it’s the democracy argument. I think it is his rhetoric and lack of impulse control. Because right now voters are kind of tuning it out, but they’re starting to tune in, saying, “No, we’re in an election cycle.”
Sunny Hostin: Don’t they like his rhetoric though?
Farah Griffin: No, most voters, that’s why he lost in 2020. It’s the moderates and independents, not the 30 percent who are never leaving him. Because this past week, he had a brief, good political moment for a Republican. He attended a slain NYPD officer’s funeral to juxtapose, you know, what he was framing as Biden hobnobbing with celebrities. Choose what you like there, but for Republicans, it was good imagery.
Goldberg: Really?!
Farah Griffin: Yes.
Goldberg: And I’m asking that because I was so offended. Because, you-know-who showed up, whether he was asked or not, this is a man who didn’t care what happened to the officers on January 6th.
Farah Griffin acknowledged that, mentioning the name of Officer Brian Sicknick, who died on January 7, 2021 as a result of injuries he sustained after being attacked by insurrectionists at the Capitol. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington, DC also reported that over 1,000 law enforcement officers were assaulted on January 6.
Sicknick’s father, Charles Sicknick, told the New York Daily News on Friday that Trump was “a criminal. He’s the reason my son is dead — because of the riot at the Capitol. He’s a publicity hound. Trump does whatever will get him votes and helps Donald Trump. There’s nothing good about that man.”
Farah Griffin continued to make her point:
For his base, those were smart optics, but he steps on it a minute later by tweeting out this offensive, dangerous photo of Joe Biden that any child would see that and be like, “Ooo, Mommy, that’s not something I should share.” He lacks the most basic instincts around impulse control, and I think that’s going to hurt the closer we get to Election Day.
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