Joy Behar said that President Donald Trump’s failure to agree with U.S. intelligence that Russian government officials meddled in the 2016 election “rises to the level of treason.”
The comments came during a discussion Tuesday on “The View” over the president’s remarks he made during the press conference Monday with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
“It seems to me that Russia’s got something on him,” Behar explained. “Because he’s over the edge with this one. He’s saying basically to him, ‘please don’t snitch,’ whatever it is. … That’s what I saw.”
“You think the ‘pee pee tape’ is, or something?” Sunny Hostin asked her co-host.
“The ‘pee pee tape’ is not going to change his base’s position,” Behar responded. “But money laundering, owing money to the Russians, billions of dollars — Jared [Kushner] also had to bail himself out of that building that was going under. There’s a lot of money involved. As they say, ‘follow the money.”
“There was a picture of FDR on Facebook that I was looking at, and it said, ‘But Hirihito said he didn’t do it,’ meaning when they [Japan] bombed Pearl Harbor in World War II,” she added. “So this is the equivalent of denying that this person did not attack us, this enemy of the state. To me it rises to the level of treason, but of course the Republican Party is never going to go there because they want their Supreme Court justice. Remember that.”
Meghan McCain then interjected and called Monday the “worst day” in Trump’s presidency.
“What happened yesterday is extremely dangerous,” McCain shared. “It’s un-American, it’s unpatriotic. But I will say that our president acted like a pathetic puppy who was completely neutered around a former KGB agent, murderous dictator, who has caused some of the worst atrocities … genocide going on in Syria. I never thought I would see this.”
“I grew up with ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall.’ I’m a Reagan hard-core Republican,” she added. “I can’t emphasize how much of a hard time I had with this. Because I just never thought this is the Republican party I would see. Which by the way, there’s a ton of blowback across the board. The majority of Fox News was going crazy about it.”