ABC’s The View is not known for rational and measured conversations, so for this retrospective of The View’s antics in 2023, you’re advised to get multiple rolls of tin foil! Throughout the year, the liberal ladies have floated all sorts of harebrained, truly bonkers, and rather laughable accusations and theories about everything from Republican ninjas planting drugs to presidential candidates using body doubles.
And what makes their insane accusations even worse is the fact that The View is under the ABC News umbrella.
Presented here, in no particular order, are their six craziest conspiracy theories from 2023.
The View got off to a hot start in January when staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin suggested that Republicans had broken into President Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home to plant classified documents in his garage. “Does it feel like oppo-research to you? Does it feel like the Republicans are behind it?” she proclaimed.
“You know what I think? I’ve never seen a luckier person than Donald Trump Just as we're this close to getting him, somehow these documents appear!” Joy Behar bitterly declared.
By July, the Republican super ninjas that got into Biden’s house were still on the loose and now they managed to sneak into the White House and “planted” cocaine.”
Again, it was Hostin who floated the conspiracy. ““Maybe it was planted, or do I sound paranoid?” she said. Faux conservative Ana Navarro seemed to agree, arguing it was “planted” “so that then they could advance the Hunter Biden narrative.”
According to The View, when Republicans weren’t breaking into the President’s homes, they were busy manipulating progressive Democrats like Congressman Jamal Bowman (NY) into illegally pulling fire alarms.
Continuing the pattern, it was Hostin who again floated the conspiracy theory that Bowman was tricked as part of a GOP plot: “I know Jamal, and so again, I'm a little biased, but the doors that are normally open so that he could get to the chambers to read were somehow miraculously closed. How did that happen?” And moderator Whoopi Goldberg agreed.
When she’s suggesting Republicans were duping Democrats into pulling fire alarms, Goldberg claims their presidential candidates are using body doubles.
In response to a campaign ad put out by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in May ahead of his formal candidacy announcement, Goldberg proclaimed “That could have been anybody” in the ad and “That could have been me in a Ron DeSantis wig!”
There’s crazy conspiracy theories; then there’s controlling-the-weather conspiracy theories.
In early September, Joy Behar blamed former President Trump for the hedonistic Burning Man festival getting rained out. Behar declared it “one of the many tragedies this summer due to climate change” and insisted that Trump and Republicans writ large were directly to blame for the weather: “But when I hear Republicans say, ‘Oh, it's not man-made. It’s not about fossil fuels.’ You know, when Trump was president, all of that went up – the fossil fuel usage went up.”
In their most recent conspiracy theory, Navarro seemed to accuse former cast member Meghan McCain of trading on her family name in the same way that Hunter Biden did, which led to corruption allegations. “Look, did Hunter Biden influence peddle on his last name, yes, he did. So, did half of Washington. People sitting at this table did it,” she said. “I'm not talking currently.”
Upon learning of the allegations leveled against her from an ABC News property, McCain threatened to sue them.
