TPUSA Says The View ‘Smeared’ Its Students, Threatens Lawsuit over Nazi Comments

On Tuesday, Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder and president Charlie Kirk announced that his organization would consider legal action against ABC’s The View after co-host Whoopi Goldberg falsely claimed that the student-focused conservative organization “embrace[d]” neo-Nazis at the group’s eighth annual Student Action Summit and mingled with neo-Nazis at the event.

Co-host Joy Behar said on The View:

Neo-Nazis were out there in the front of the conference with antisemitic slurs and, you know, the Nazi swastika and a picture of a so-called Jewish person with exaggerated features, just like [Joseph] Goebbels did during the Third Reich. It’s the same thing, right out of that same playbook.

Later on the show, The View’s legal team had co-host Sara Haines announce that TPUSA condemned the neo-Nazis and that they were not connected to the organization. Co-host Joy Behar then butted in, saying, “Yeah, but where was DeSantis is what I want to know.” Goldberg quipped, “But you [TPUSA] let them [neo-Nazis] in. You let them in, and you knew what they were. So, you are complicit.”

Following a commercial break, Goldberg made a “clarification” about what occurred, informing the audience that the neo-Nazis were outside protesters and were actually not in the building. Goldberg tried to defend her previous remarks, explaining that her “point was more metaphorical that you embraced them [neo-Nazis] at your thing, I felt.” 

At one point, #SueTheView was the 12th highest trending topic on Twitter. TPUSA’s profile picture on Twitter now is a black screen displaying #SueTheView. 

In a statement to the press regarding the neo-Nazi protesters, TPUSA said the organization “100% condemns these ideologies in the strongest terms.” The group stated that its security team tried to remove the protesters but could not because they were on public property. TPUSA said, “We have no idea who they are or why they were at the convention center. They had nothing to do with TPUSA, our event, or our students.” TPUSA representatives claimed their students initially confronted the protesters but eventually “took the mature route” and left the area.

TPUSA released video reportedly showing students from the convention arguing with the neo-Nazis. TPUSA put quotation marks around “Nazis,” demonstrating their skepticism of the identities of the protesters. The organization implied that the alleged neo-Nazis might have been connected to the left-wing protesters who showed up to condemn the event.

TPUSA sent The View a “cease-and-desist” letter, giving the show until Wednesday to retract statements tying the group to the neo-Nazi protesters before the conservative organization pursues legal action. The letter read:

The false statements of fact intentionally made during The View’s July 25th segment were unquestionably harmful to TPUSA’s reputation and brought the organization and its student affiliates into disrepute with the public, potential donors, and current and future business partners, posing a significant financial loss to the organization.

Today, co-host Sara Haines apologized for the statements made on the show. TPUSA noted that Goldberg still has not retracted her comments lumping the conservative group in with neo-Nazis:

A TPUSA spokesperson seemed unsatisfied with the apology, telling Fox News Digital, “Whoopi is the one who said it. She should be the one to offer the apology.” 

Goldberg’s attempt to tie TPUSA to neo-Nazis is interesting, given that she was in hot water earlier this year for saying the Holocaust was not about race. She said in January, “The Holocaust isn’t about race . . . it’s about man’s inhumanity to man . . . these are two white groups of people.” Goldberg was suspended for two weeks following her false and antisemitic remarks.

The View, a show that conservatives love to hate, is known for its liberal co-hosts’ disdain for all things conservative. Unfortunately, given its large viewership, we have to keep an eye on it. The amount of misinformation that the hosts feed their audience daily is shocking and irresponsible. This latest slip is yet another embarrassing moment for the talk show.