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“Are you taking some kind of drug?” Joy Behar makes fun of Alyssa Farah Griffin about fears about Trump
Joy Behar jokingly asked her “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin if she was “on some kind of drug” on Wednesday.
May 1, 2024, published at 6:30 PM ET
The views Alyssa Farah Griffin her co-host asked Joy Behar to jokingly ask if she was “on some drug” after confusing the panel of experts on Wednesday, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Griffin, a conservative member of the morning showsaid she was “in such a good mood today” before “raising alarm bells” about the possibility Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election.
The panelist resigned as White House director of strategic communications and assistant to the president in 2020 and has since become an outspoken critic of the ex-president.
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Griffin’s co-hosts seemed confused when she expressed her fears about the possibility of another Trump presidency after declaring she was in a “good mood.”
“I hate to bring up this point, but I have to,” she said. The TV personality argued that the current media landscape would likely tilt voters toward Trump, and that he “could very well be president in seven months.”
“This is what I’m afraid of,” Griffin explained. “My first thought was that the fact that he was on trial in a courtroom and not on the campaign trail would hurt him. I’m starting to think that this isn’t happening the same way because he doesn’t say crazy things there.”
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While the former president is in court for his continued conduct hush money trial in New York, Griffin worried that he might benefit from having to “sit there quietly with his hands folded.”
Meanwhile, as unrest at colleges across the country filled headlines, the co-host said Americans weren’t seeing news about “all the horrible things that are happening.” [Trump] what he will do in his second term,” and instead “they see violence and protests on college campuses.”
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Griffin resigned in 2020 as White House director of strategic communications and assistant to the president
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‘They see young people calling Joe Biden ‘Genocide Joe,’ and it’s scaring people,” she continued, adding that she felt the president might lose support from “a public policy perspective” or from those who are “on the fence about Biden’.
“I think there’s a real reality right now that Joe Biden could pick up swing voters, he could pick up moderate Republicans and suburban women….”
Behar intervened and asked, “But why are you in a good mood again?”
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Hostin said she felt Americans were taking the criminal charges against Trump seriously.
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“Listen!” Griffin clapped back and continued to make her point: “[Biden] could take all the demographics you normally need, but lose young progressives and lose the election to Donald Trump. That’s where we are now.”
“You said you were in a good mood,” Behar and co-host said Sunny Hostin then said in unison.
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Trump criticized the response of New York law enforcement authorities to the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University.
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“I’m sorry to bring down the mood with my opinion, but I am very concerned,” Griffin clarified.
Behar apparently wasn’t satisfied with her answer, as she asked again what Griffin’s “good mood” was [was] about.”
“What kind of medicine are you taking or something?” she joked, to which Griffin responded with a hearty laugh.
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Hostin then said she disagreed with her colleague on Trump’s criminal trial because she believed voters were “paying attention” to the case.
She argued that the information that came out in court was driving voters away from the presumptive Republican nominee.
After the procedure was completed on Tuesday, Trump said criticized law enforcement in New York about the response to the ongoing protests at Columbia University, near his trial in the Manhattan courthouse.
He told Fox News host Sean Hannity that “it should never have gotten to this point” and that police should have intervened before student demonstrators occupied the school’s Hamilton Hall, “because it would have been easier if they were in tents instead of in a building.”
