Whoopi Goldberg said on “The View” Wednesday that the terror attack in lower Manhattan Tuesday which left eight people dead and nearly a dozen injured was “really the first we’ve endured since Sep 11.”
She didn’t specify if she meant in the entire country or just New York City. Recent attacks in the U.S. include Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 that killed 3 people and injured hundreds and the terrorist attack in San Bernardino., California that left 14 people dead in 2015. (RELATED: ‘The View’ Slams ‘Unstable’ Trump For Threat To ‘Totally Destroy North Korea’)
“First of all, all of us are sending our love to everyone impacted by this insane terrorist attack,” Goldberg stated. “Really the first one we’ve really endured since September 11th. Eight people lost their lives after a man from Uzbekistan who has been in the U.S. since 2010 used a rental truck to plow into people on a New York bike path in an ISIS inspired attack. They weren’t sure what it was. Initially they said it was a road rage thing, which wasn’t ringing true for a lot of folks.”
“This is my neighborhood,” Meghan McCain interjected. “One of my best friends was in the grocery store across the street when it happened and heard everything and came back. She’s nine months pregnant.. hysterical afterwards so I called her. The thing about this, the trend of taking cars and jamming it into mass groups of people and crowds is the new trend with ISIS. We see it in Europe, see it happening in the United States of America.”
She then suggested there should be a way to track people on social media who show a trend of “people trying to hurt Americans,” just like a site can track what shoes a person is interested in.
“I think they do. The NYPD has been incredible, like you said, since many years ago now,” Joy Behar responded. “I don’t know if you can stop this kind of thing. Trump wants to put in extreme vetting. He wants to make it even harder to get into the country. My feeling is any tourist could come from Spain, Italy, France, Germany …get a driver’s license, get a zip car or a van and plow into anybody. So how does the extreme vetting help really?”
“It doesn’t,” Sunny Hostin interjected. “This guy was from Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan is not on the list of countries he wants to ban. What was sort of hypocritical to me is when the terror attack happened in Las Vegas everyone was saying ‘it’s too soon to talk about gun control,’ yet this very same day we hear from the administration extreme vetting. This is terror. This selective outrage that we’re hearing from this administration is concerning to me.”
“Part of the point I’m making is that you can’t — there are sometimes when you can’t stop stuff,” Goldberg shared. “He [Trump] sort of threw Chuck Schumer under the bridge and said ‘this is your fault.’ The bottom line is you can vet people as much as you want to. And if they make a shift in the middle there’s nothing you can do about it. There are things we can do. So now that we’ve seen all this in Europe I would like to make suggestions.
She then suggested putting up some kind of barricade in front of the bike paths, similar to what they installed at Times Square.