{"id":1978319,"date":"2023-07-20T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whoopi-declares-2024-gop-hopeful-wannabe-dictator-this-time-its-not-trump-2\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T10:46:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:46:33","slug":"whoopi-declares-2024-gop-hopeful-wannabe-dictator-this-time-its-not-trump-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whoopi-declares-2024-gop-hopeful-wannabe-dictator-this-time-its-not-trump-2\/","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-2%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=1978319&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 Hopeful Wannabe &#8216;Dictator&#8217;\u2064 &#8211; This Time It&#8217;s Not Trump<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s an unwritten code on \u201cThe View\u201d \u2014 the greatest threat to our country is any \u2062electable Republican or any conservative who\u2064 gets any \u200ctraction in \u200cthe media.<\/p>\n<p>This week, \u201cView\u201d co-host Joy Behar went viral for \u200dcalling\u2063 Jesse 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 replacement<\/a> for Tucker Carlson in\u2064 the 8 p.m. time slot on Fox News,\u200b a \u201cterrible person\u201d and a bigot. It\u2019s almost like the people who helped\u2062 hound Carlson from the \u2062network just think anyone\u2063 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 \u200cand\u200c general \u200bwaste of \u200dcarbon.<\/p>\n<p>So, imagine the not-surprise when the same panel that has been\u2062 calling Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/view-host-freaks-curveball-cause-bidens-presidential-reign-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a threat to democracy<\/a> for years also called the only credible opposition he\u2019s faced thus far in\u2063 the 2024 GOP presidential primary\u200d campaign a threat\u2064 to democracy as well.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, shortly after \u2063Trump\u2063 announced special counsel Jack Smith had\u200c sent him a \u200dletter stating the former president was the target\u2062 of a\u2064 criminal investigation regarding his actions on \u200dJan. 6, 2021, the day of the\u2063 Capitol\u2064 incursion \u2014 usually a prelude to an indictment \u2014 \u200cFlorida Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-campaign-staff-confirms-clue-mean-end-near-2024-hopeful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> \u2064 told CNN that \u201cthis \u200dcountry is\u200c going down the \u200droad\u2062 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-trump-should-have-come-out-more-forcefully-during-jan-6-capitol-riot\/\" title=\"DeSantis: Trump should've been stronger on Jan. 6 Capitol riot.\">criminalizing \u200dpolitical differences<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cI don\u2019t think\u2063 it serves us good to have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-gets-trumped-by-former-presidents-indictment-news\/\" title=\"DeSantis overshadowed by ex-president's indictment news.\">presidential election focused<\/a> on what happened four years ago in January,\u200d and so\u2062 I \u2064want to focus on looking forward,\u201d DeSantis continued.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI\u200d don\u2019t\u2063 want to look back,\u201d he\u2064 said. \u201cI do not want to see him \u2014 I\u2064 hope \u2062he doesn\u2019t get charged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it will be good for \u2063the country. But, at the same time, I\u2019ve got to focus\u2063 on looking\u200d forward, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Florida\u2062 Gov. Ron \u200dDeSantis reacts to former President Donald Trump saying he\u2019s been told by special counsel Jack Smith that he\u2019s a target of the criminal probe into \u200defforts to overturn the\u200b 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\u200d (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1681408693794111488?\">July 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, instead\u200d of hating on Trump\u2062 or DeSantis, the\u2064 panel \u200dgot to\u200b hate on Trump <em>and <\/em>DeSantis all at once.<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough: This is\u200c their\u200c schtick and \u2064they\u2019re going to milk it for all it\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s another thing, \u200dhowever, to go \u200cout and \u2062call DeSantis a \u200c\u201cdictator,\u201d \u200cwhich is \u2064exactly what Whoopi Goldberg \u2014 first among equals on the \u200dpanel \u2014 did during Wednesday\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n<p>After a discussion about why GOP \u200copponents 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\u2063 mean,\u2064 aside from \u2063the obvious reason that nobody wants to exploit the weaponization of the Justice Department \u2014 Goldberg said, \u201cWhat\u2019s interesting about very many of these\u200c people who you\u2019ve sort of talked about\u2064 not even \u2064saying or admitting that \u200canything wrong\u2063 was done, it\u2019s because \u2062they want \u200dto do the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeSantis wants the same kind of country,\u201d she said. \u201cHe \u200dbelieves \u2014 I believe that\u200b he wants to also be a dictator. \u2064I believe many\u200c of these folks\u200d who are defending this think \u2062this is an interesting\u2064 prospect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to\u200c tell\u200b you, I \u200cnever thought in my lifetime \u200bthat I would see \u2062this\u2063 country come as close to dictatorship as I\u2019ve seen,\u200b ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, that\u2019s because he \u2063 <em>doesn\u2019t<\/em> want to\u2063 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\u200c but OK, sure.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone on \u201cThe View\u201d just let that one slide, because \u200dapparently <em>any<\/em> Republican who opposes the specter \u200bof\u200c the \u200dweaponization \u2062of\u2064 the powers of the \u200cDepartment \u2064of Justice against the political opposition just wants to be \u2063a\u2064 dictator.<\/p>\n<p>I would have sworn that would mean they\u200c wanted the <em>opposite<\/em> of dictatorial government \u2014 i.e., a republic where the DOJ isn\u2019t issuing criminal charges against a potential nominee for the \u200cparty that doesn\u2019t control the White House \u2062every few weeks\u2063 \u2014 but thanks, Whoopi, for setting\u200d me straight on that.<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin\u2063 \u2014\u2064 who worked in the Trump White House until\u2063 the scales fell from her\u2064 eyes, which was right about when \u2063the then-president became radioactive to the establishment \u2014 then gave her perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s crazy to me\u2062 about this whole scenario,\u201d she said, \u201cis Donald Trump \u2014\u2064 there\u2019s this big \u200dpiece in The \u200bNew York \u200cTimes, we talked about it\u2064 briefly yesterday \u2062\u2014 Donald Trump\u2019s\u200c team\u2064 around him now on the record saying \u2064his \u2062plans for a second term are to grow the \u200dexecutive branch\u2064 and the powers \u2064of the presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Sara Haines said\u200d the move was \u201cto eliminate checks\u2064 and\u200d balances,\u201d to which Goldberg responded, \u201cThat\u2019s called dictatorship. Let\u2019s call it what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Really,\u200b now?<\/p>\n<p>So the guy who\u2019s in the Oval Office now, who tried to use \u200bthe power of the presidency to compel Americans to take \u2063a controversial vaccine and to \u200billegally cancel student loan \u2062debt \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 bypassing Congress on that? Is Joe Biden a dictator for floating the idea that the 14th Amendment could be used to\u2063 supersede Congress on the debt \u200dceiling?<\/p>\n<p>I confess to\u200b not watching \u200d\u201cThe \u200bView\u201d on a daily basis \u2014 or ever, in its entirety \u200b\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 \u2064have made the news were\u2062 she to make those pronouncements about Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, she isn\u2019t going to,\u200d even though he\u2019s \u2063eliminating\u200d checks and balances. She\u2019s perfectly happy with a strong \u2064presidency, so\u2062 long as \u2063the strong president\u200c is on <em>her<\/em> side.<\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s a Republican, meanwhile, he\u2019s \u200ca dictator.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s the way it is. There\u2019s one view on \u201cThe \u200cView,\u201d\u200c and that\u2019s slanted \u2063to the\u200d left. Anyone else is a bigot, a dictator,\u2062 a fascist and\/or a \u201cterrible person.\u201d That\u2019s the code, and it never gets broken.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good to 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\"> \u200b new \u2063target<\/a> \u200d they\u2019re smearing with the same old, tired rhetoric \u2014\u2062 but\u200d that doesn\u2019t \u2064make it any newer or any less tired than it was the \u2062last time they used \u2064it.<\/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 GOP \u200cHopeful Wannabe &#8216;Dictator&#8217; &#8211; This Time \u200dIt&#8217;s\u200b Not Trump<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The \u200bWestern 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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