The gals on The View pushed it too far with their lies this time. The cast told viewers that Turning Point USA welcomed neo nazis into their events. During that same episode host, Whoppi Goldberg did return after a commercial to drop in a small disclaimer but it was not enough to undo the damage their lie caused.
In return, Turning Point USA’s legal team hit the show with court orders to cease and desist and issued a major warning to ABC for allowing that type of garbage to air.
ABC moved quickly to force the ladies to issue an apology. Here is how that went:
“On Monday we talked about the fact that there were openly neo-Nazi demonstrators outside the Florida Student Action Summit of the Turning Point USA group. We want to make clear that these demonstrators were gathered outside the event and that they were not invited or endorsed by Turning Point USA,” co-host Sara Haines said.
“A Turning Point USA spokesman said the group ‘100 percent condemned those ideologies’ and said Turning Point USA security tried to remove the neo-Nazis from the area but could not because they were on public property,” Haines continued. “Also, Turning Point USA wanted us to clarify that this was a Turning Point USA Summit, and not a Republican Party event. So, we apologize for anything we said that may have been unclear on these points.”
“Whoopi (Goldberg) is the one who said it. She should be the one to offer the apology,” a Turning Point USA spokesperson told Fox News Digital following Haines’ remarks.
Turning Point USA issued the letter to ABC News executives, with a deadline of July 27 for a retraction and apology.
“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,” the letter addressed to ABC News New York bureau chief Joshua Hoyos and ABC assistant chief counsel Ian Rosenberg said.
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Later, Goldberg was made to also apologize saying, “I put the young people at the conference in the same category as the protesters outside, and I don’t like it when people make assumptions about me and it’s not any better when I make assumptions about other people, which I did. So my bad, I’m sorry.”