‘The View’ hosts defend Ilhan Omar’s remarks comparing the US to terrorists: ‘It depends on who you talk to’

“The View” hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg appeared to defend previous remarks made by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., comparing the United States to the Taliban and Hamas, and said it “depends on the person you’re talking to”.

“What disappointed me was kind of the tropes, he constantly attacks Ilhan Omar,” Hostin said, referring to Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. “And yeah, she made that comment, all about the Benjamins comment, and then Nancy Pelosi pulled her, you know, at the back of the pack and said let me tell you something, that’s something for which you are going to apologize and she apologized.”

Hostin noted that the Democratic congresswoman had no such thing anymore and said she was more popular in her district than McCarthy was in her district. Haines said Omar compared “the United States, Israel, Hamas and the Taliban to all terrorist organizations” in 2021.

“She may have a lot more knowledge and experience in the very complicated relationship with the Middle East, but I found that being on a foreign committee and comparing the country to a terrorist, known terrorists , they are organized terrorist communities, not Israel, but Hamas and the Taliban…” Haines continued.

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Hostin and co-host Whoopi Goldberg said it “depends on who you talk to.”

Haines continued to say that they were recognized terrorist organizations and co-host Joy Behar added that they were recognized in “this country” as terrorist organizations. Hostin argued that while talking about the Middle East, they need to have “experts” and someone from Palestine as well as a Muslim person involved in those discussions.

“There were votes she voted on, there were votes in Syria and the Armenians were killed, it was genocide, she voted present, which is basically voting no and so she talks a lot people slaughtered. , but there were two votes where she didn’t vote in a way that I would want someone on this committee to vote,” Haines said.

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
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The hosts reacted to Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s assertion that he wanted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from assignments on the “anti-Semitism” committee if he becomes Speaker of the House. He also said he would remove Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-California, and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said she agreed and thought Omar shouldn’t sit on the foreign affairs committee.

Hostin also said Omar had a different understanding of geopolitics.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, speaks during a ‘Black Women in Defense of Ilhan Omar’ event on April 30, 2019 on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC on April 30, 2019 in Washington, D.C. DC. Photo by Olivier Douliery/ABACAPRESS.COM
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Omar and Swalwell responded to McCarthy’s pledge and said

“From the moment I was elected, the Republican Party has been on a mission to use fear, xenophobia, Islamophobia and racism to target me in the House and through millions of dollars in ads. campaign,” Omar said. “McCarthy’s efforts to repeatedly single me out for contempt and hate — including threatening to remove me from my committee — do nothing to solve the problems our constituents face. It does nothing to fight inflation. , healthcare or solving the climate crisis.”

Fox News’ Haris Alic contributed to this report.