{"id":1978315,"date":"2023-07-20T10:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whoopi-declares-2024-gop-hopeful-wannabe-dictator-this-time-its-not-trump\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T10:42:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:42:41","slug":"whoopi-declares-2024-gop-hopeful-wannabe-dictator-this-time-its-not-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whoopi-declares-2024-gop-hopeful-wannabe-dictator-this-time-its-not-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi labels 2024 GOP aspirant &#8216;dictator&#8217; &#8211; Not Trump again."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhoopi-declares-2024-gop-hopeful-wannabe-dictator-this-time-its-not-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1978315&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Whoopi Declares 2024 GOP\u2063 Hopeful Wannabe &#8216;Dictator&#8217; &#8211; This\u2062 Time \u200cIt&#8217;s Not Trump<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s an unwritten code on \u201cThe View\u201d \u2014 the greatest threat to \u200cour country\u200b is any\u200b electable Republican or any conservative who gets any traction in the \u2064media.<\/p>\n<p>This week, \u201cView\u201d co-host Joy \u2062Behar went viral for \u200ccalling \u200dJesse Watters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/badge-honor-joy-behar-now-complaining-different-fox-news-host-since-tuckers-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the \u2064replacement<\/a> for Tucker Carlson in \u2064the 8 p.m.\u2064 time slot on Fox News, a \u2064\u201cterrible person\u201d and a bigot.\u2063 It\u2019s almost like the people who \u2064helped hound Carlson from the network just think anyone who\u2019d accept a job there (aside from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/will-never-forgive-tucker-geraldo-uses-interview-view-bash-former-colleagues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geraldo Rivera<\/a>, of course) is a racist and scoundrel and general \u2064waste of carbon.<\/p>\n<p>So, imagine the\u2063 not-surprise when the same panel that \u2064has been calling Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/view-host-freaks-curveball-cause-bidens-presidential-reign-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a \u2063threat \u200bto\u2064 democracy<\/a> \u200bfor years also called the only credible\u2062 opposition he\u2019s faced thus far in\u2064 the 2024 GOP presidential \u200bprimary campaign a threat to democracy as well.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday,\u2062 shortly after Trump\u2064 announced special counsel Jack Smith had sent\u200d him a letter stating the former \u200bpresident was\u200d the target \u2063of a criminal investigation regarding his actions on \u2062Jan. 6, 2021, the day of the Capitol incursion \u2014 usually\u200c a prelude to an indictment \u2014 Florida Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-campaign-staff-confirms-clue-mean-end-near-2024-hopeful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> told\u200d CNN that \u201cthis\u2062 country is going\u200b down the road of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-alexander-uncle-tom-label-is-rhetorical-bone-pointing-for-political-rats\/\" title=\"Will Alexander: Uncle Tom Label Is Rhetorical \u201cBone-Pointing\u201d for Political Rats\">criminalizing political differences<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cI don\u2019t think it \u2063serves us good\u200b to have a presidential election \u2063focused on \u2062what\u200b happened four\u2064 years ago \u2063in January, and\u2063 so I want to focus on looking\u200d forward,\u201d DeSantis continued.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to\u2064 look\u200c back,\u201d he said. \u201cI do not want to see\u2063 him \u2014 I hope he doesn\u2019t get charged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it will be good for \u200bthe\u2063 country. \u200dBut, at the\u2064 same time, I\u2019ve got to focus \u200don looking forward, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to \u200ddo.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reacts\u200c to former President\u200c Donald \u2064Trump saying he\u2019s been told by\u200b special counsel Jack Smith that he\u2019s a target of\u200c the criminal probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OHWZWimUQp\">https:\/\/t.co\/OHWZWimUQp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XKWzKJZT1e\">pic.twitter.com\/XKWzKJZT1e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN \u2063(@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1681408693794111488?\">July 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, instead of hating \u2062on Trump or DeSantis, the panel got to hate on Trump <em>and <\/em>DeSantis all at once.<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough: This is\u200b their schtick and they\u2019re going to milk\u2064 it for all \u2063it\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s another thing, however, to go out and call DeSantis a \u201cdictator,\u201d which is exactly what Whoopi \u2064Goldberg \u2014 first among\u200d equals on the\u200d panel \u2014 did during Wednesday\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n<p>After\u200b a discussion about why GOP opponents\u2062 weren\u2019t using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dick-morris-third-trump-indictment-looming-republicans-must-play-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump\u2019s indictments<\/a> against him \u2014 I mean, aside from the obvious reason \u200bthat \u200bnobody wants to exploit the weaponization of the Justice Department \u2014 Goldberg said,\u2062 \u201cWhat\u2019s interesting about very many of\u200d these people who you\u2019ve sort \u200bof talked about not\u2063 even saying or admitting \u2062that anything wrong\u2063 was done, it\u2019s because they \u2062want \u200dto do\u200b the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeSantis wants the same kind of country,\u201d she\u2063 said. \u201cHe believes \u2014\u200d I\u2062 believe that\u2062 he wants to also \u2063be a dictator. I believe many of these folks who are defending this\u200d think \u200cthis is an interesting\u200b prospect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to \u2062tell you,\u200d I \u2063never thought in \u2062my lifetime that I would see this\u2062 country come as close to dictatorship as I\u2019ve\u2062 seen, ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, \u200bthat\u2019s because he \u200b <em>doesn\u2019t<\/em> want \u2064to see the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-carlson-torches-fox-news-networks-panicky-reaction-biden-wannabe-dictator-chyron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">become a dictatorship<\/a> \u2014\u200b but \u2063OK, sure.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone \u200con \u2062\u201cThe \u2064View\u201d just \u200clet that one\u200c slide, because apparently <em>any<\/em> Republican who \u200dopposes the\u200b specter of the weaponization of the powers of the Department of Justice against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/limbaugh-the-tyrannical-lefts-sinister-conspiracy-to-silence-conservatives\/\" title=\"LIMBAUGH: The Tyrannical Left\u2019s Sinister Conspiracy To Silence Conservatives\">political opposition<\/a> just wants \u200bto be a dictator.<\/p>\n<p>I would have sworn\u2064 that would mean they wanted the <em>opposite<\/em> of \u200bdictatorial government \u2014 i.e., a republic where the DOJ\u2062 isn\u2019t issuing criminal charges\u2064 against a potential nominee for the party that doesn\u2019t \u200bcontrol the \u2064White\u200d House \u200cevery few weeks\u200d \u2014\u2064 but thanks, Whoopi, for \u200csetting me straight on\u200b that.<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin \u2014 who worked in \u2064the\u200c Trump White House until \u2064the scales fell from her eyes, which \u2064was right \u2062about when the then-president became radioactive to the establishment \u2014 then\u2062 gave \u2062her perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s crazy to \u2062me about this \u2063whole scenario,\u201d \u2063she \u200csaid, \u201cis\u200b Donald Trump \u2014 there\u2019s \u2063this big piece in The \u200bNew York\u200b Times, we talked about it briefly \u2063yesterday \u2014 \u2062Donald Trump\u2019s team around him now on the record saying his plans\u2063 for a second term are to grow the executive branch \u2062and\u2064 the powers of the presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Sara Haines \u2063said \u200dthe\u200d move was \u201cto eliminate checks and balances,\u201d to which Goldberg responded, \u201cThat\u2019s called dictatorship. Let\u2019s call it \u2064what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Really,\u200c now?<\/p>\n<p>So the guy\u2064 who\u2019s in the Oval Office now,\u200d who tried to use \u2062the power\u2063 of the presidency to compel Americans to take a\u2063 controversial vaccine\u2064 and to illegally cancel student\u2063 loan debt\u2063 \u2014 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ex-fox-producer-called-biden-wannabe-dictator-breaks-silence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he a dictator<\/a> for\u200b bypassing Congress on that?\u200b Is Joe Biden a dictator \u2062for floating \u2064the idea\u2062 that\u2063 the 14th Amendment could be used to supersede Congress \u2063on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-with-full-control-of-government-democrats-massive-wish-list-is-stalling\/\" title=\"Even With Full Control Of Government, Democrats\u2019 Massive Wish List Is Stalling\">debt ceiling<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I confess\u200d to not watching \u201cThe View\u201d on a daily basis \u2014 or ever, in its \u200centirety \u2014 but I think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/whoopi-goldberg-stops-view-walks-off-stage-miranda-lambert-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whoopi<\/a> would have made the news were she to make those pronouncements about Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously,\u200c she isn\u2019t \u2064going to, even\u200b though he\u2019s eliminating checks and balances. \u200bShe\u2019s perfectly happy \u200dwith a strong presidency, so long\u200b as the strong \u2062president is on\u200b <em>her<\/em> side.<\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s a Republican, meanwhile, \u2064he\u2019s a dictator.<\/p>\n<p>But\u200c that\u2019s\u2063 the \u200cway it\u2062 is. There\u2019s one view \u200bon \u201cThe View,\u201d and that\u2019s slanted\u2062 to the left. Anyone else is a bigot, \u200ba dictator, a fascist and\/or a \u201cterrible person.\u201d\u2064 That\u2019s the\u2062 code, and\u200b it never gets broken.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good \u2064to see they have a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-camp-calls-view-host-dishonest-incorrect-air-claim-stop-lying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> new target<\/a> they\u2019re smearing with \u2064the same old, \u2062tired rhetoric \u2014 but that doesn\u2019t make it any newer or any less tired than it was the last time they used it.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/whoopi-declares-2024-gop-hopeful-wannabe-dictator-time-not-trump\/\">Whoopi Declares 2024\u200b GOP\u2063 Hopeful Wannabe &#8216;Dictator&#8217; &#8211; This \u2064Time It&#8217;s\u2062 Not Trump<\/a> appeared\u2063 first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On &#8220;The View,&#8221; an unspoken rule prevails: the biggest danger to our nation is any viable Republican or conservative gaining media influence. 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