The staunchly racist co-host of ABC’s The View, Sunny Hostin was back attacking South Carolina Republican Senator and presidential candidate Tim Scott again on Tuesday. This time, she demanded to know who the Senator was dating because she feared his girlfriend was “a lunatic.” But the example she kept returning to was that of another black conservative, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas whose wife, Ginni Thomas, was white.
Scott’s relationship status was bizarrely the first hot topic discussed on the show. “Is it important for the U.S. to have a married presidential candidate? Must you be married to someone in order to be president? Are people more comfortable, or can you be a single person, you know, who is looking for love in all the wrong places?” moderator Whoopi Goldberg asked the table.
Before they even got to the soundbite of Scott, Hostin was eager to speculate and warn that the Senator could be dating someone dangerous who has his ear, like Ginni has Clarence’s. Joy Behar also spoke up to push the debunked conspiracy that Ginni was a mastermind of January 6:
HOSTIN: I think -- the only thing that I worry about is, like a Ginni Thomas popping up. Right? So, you have someone that is single and someone becomes president and then he meets a Ginni Thomas who is -- and I think most people know, there's some -- there's some wonder as to how involved she is with what has happened on the Supreme Court, because her husband is on the Supreme Court and that little pillow talk that happens.
BEHAR: And January 6th.
HOSTIN: And January 6th. And so, if someone is not married then they get married to Ginni Thomas, I'm concerned. So I would like to know what I’m getting into.
Following the soundbite of Scott talking about his girlfriend on Fox News, Hostin argued that it was “very important” she know who he was dating “because of the pillow talk that happens and if she's a lunatic.”
And as if it was some form of evidence against the Senator, she read from a Washington Post hit piece that claimed he might be “reverse catfish[ing] America” and lying about having a girlfriend. “Then The Washington Post reports that six friends of Scott said they didn't know about a woman in his life,” she proclaimed as if it was fact.
Proclaiming “I don't care,” Goldberg strongly pushed back on Hostin’s obsession with Scott’s private life. Speaking as if she was in Scott’s position, she argued it was no one’s business who he was seeing:
Why is my private life of so much interest to you that you can't get past the fact that I may not be interested in being married? I might not want a spouse. That doesn't mean I can't do the job. It doesn't mean I don't have people who can meet and greet all those folks that come. You know, there have been several presidents in our [nation’s history have been single].
“I just don’t think it's right for people to invest that kind of stuff into anyone until you know what their plan for the country is,” Goldberg added. “That's when you decide because really she may be a monster, but you never have to deal with her.”
So be fair, Sunny does have experience with lunatic partners. She's repeatedly retold a story of how she was upset with how her then-boyfriend/now-husband hung up on her once so she got revenge by going into his home, stealing his phones, and throwing them on the highway to be run over.
Mentally unstable Sunny Hostin retells the story of how she got revenge on her then-boyfriend/now-husband by going into his home, stealing all his phones, and throwing them on the highway to be run over.
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"If you don't have proper phone etiquette you don't need a phone." pic.twitter.com/hkCGUgCWSY
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
September 12, 2023
11:01:48 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: So, you know, this keeps coming up every couple of years, but it's an interesting discussion and it is this: Is it important for the U.S. to have a married presidential candidate? Must you be married to someone in order to be president? Are people more comfortable, or can you be a single person, you know, who is looking for love in all the wrong places?
[Laughter]
JOY BEHAR: How about if you're a married person looking for love in all the wrong places?
[Crosstalk]
SARA HAINES: Which we’ve already had.
I think it could be totally fine. I don’t think – When I look for -- I mean we've seen what people are willing to elect in this country. I mean, and I don't think marriage and children a good person make. I mean, example would be and not to just throw him under because there’s been more, Trump had three wives, five kids, that did not change him.
So, I tend to think that if you're a good person with integrity and character, I don't care if you're married. I don't care who you're sleeping with. I don’t care what you’re doing. That is not a leader. The leader is by the integrity and character.
(…)
11:03:32 a.m. Eastern
SUNNY HOSTIN: I think -- the only thing that I worry about is, like a Ginni Thomas popping up. Right? So, you have someone that is single and someone becomes president and then he meets a Ginni Thomas who is -- and I think most people know, there's some -- there's some wonder as to how involved she is with what has happened on the Supreme Court, because her husband is on the Supreme Court and that little pillow talk that happens.
BEHAR: And January 6th.
HOSTIN: And January 6th. And so, if someone is not married then they get married to Ginni Thomas, I'm concerned. So I would like to know what I’m getting into.
BEHAR: Is Ginni Thomas available the way you sound?
[Laughter]
HOSTIN: A Ginni Thomas-like person.
(…)
11:06:00 a.m. Eastern
HAINES: Well, it does remind you of every single woman that's walked the Earth has been asked, “Well, where is the man who’d find you?” So, a little flippy.
HOSTIN: But again, it can be very important because of the pillow talk that happens and if she's a lunatic.
HAINES: Abigail Adams was a huge influence on her husband. Since the beginning of time a spouse or a partner has always been—
BEHAR: Eleanor Roosevelt.
HOSTIN: Eleanor Roosevelt. And that's why it's important to know. I will say a Post reporter, Ben Terris said he left an interview with Tim Scott unsure whether Scott's girlfriend actually exists and he wrote this, “Technically I can't verify that she exists except to note that for a presidential campaign to essentially reverse catfish America would be insane.”
HAINES: Worst has been done.
HOSTIN: Then The Washington Post reports that six friends of Scott said they didn't know about a woman in his life.
HAINES: Why are they investigating?
GOLDBERG: Here's my question. I don't care. This is the issue and this is a big issue in the country. Why is my private life of so much interest to you that you can't get past the fact that I may not be interested in being married? I might not want a spouse. That doesn't mean I can't do the job. It doesn't mean I don't have people who can meet and greet all those folks that come. You know, there have been several presidents in our -- not our lifetime. Not even Joy's lifetime.
BEHAR: That’s true.
GOLDBERG: As Joy always says, you know, she used to go with Lincoln.
HOSTIN: James Buchanan was never married.
GOLDBERG: Yes. Yes. Did you date him too?
BEHAR: Yes.
HOSTIN: Grover Cleveland was a bachelor.
HAINES: You have more time, more energy. I was much more productive when I was single and hiding in a job than I do now. [Laughter]
GOLDBERG: I just don’t think it's right for people to invest that kind of stuff into anyone until you know what their plan for the country is. That's when you decide because really she may be a monster, but you never have to deal with her.
(…)
