“The View” co-host Joy Behar said on the show Monday that if Democratic Sen. Al Franken has to resign over sexual misconduct allegations, then so does President Donald Trump.
The comment came during a discussion on the talk show Monday after a second woman came forward to accuse Franken of “inappropriately touching her” in 2010.
Behar equated the second accusation to stories that appeared during the 2016 presidential campaign against Trump and his infamous “locker-room talk.” (RELATED: ‘The View’ Pivots To Trump While Discussing Allegations Against Franken [VIDEO])
“But to ask him [Franken] to resign…I don’t know if that’s the appropriate response either. No senator has been asked to resign ever,” Sunny Hostin asked. “The last time someone was expelled from the senate I think it was like 155 years ago. But what is the response? What do you do when you have a sitting senator or a sitting president having been accused of some sort of sexual immorality?”
“If Franken has to resign, then Trump needs to resign,” Joy Behar interjected. “Because he’s just as guilty of harassing women. And he has 16 accusers so far. And you know when you listen to the Republican party what they’re saying is Roy Blunt senator from whenever he’s from Alabama. He said the Trump thing — the voters have spoken. They knew about these allegations and they still voted for him. That has nothing to do with ethics and morality and what the president allegedly did. And President Clinton was impeached correctly and probably as Senator [Kirsten] Gillibrand said he should have resigned.”
“No, I’m sorry that’s ridiculous,” Whoopi Goldberg chimed in. “When someone resigns everything gets put under the carpet. He needed to have to fess up to whatever was going on at the time. And to say he should have resigned makes no sense.”
“If we’re talking about Bill Clinton he paid the price,” Hostin said. “What has been striking to me with Donald Trump is 16 women have came forward and accused him of varying behavior, of varying degrees. He himself has said you can grab women by the genitals and get away with it.”
The hosts then questioned why we haven’t heard from these women lately.
“I think we heard quite a bit from them,” Goldberg responded. “Not lately. I do recall there was sort of a kind of veiled threat of lawsuits. And quite honestly, listen, we’re hearing a lot of different stuff from a lot of different people. I think a lot of these women don’t want to be judged anymore.”
“But Trump he also threatened to sue these women,” Behar said. “You know what he doesn’t want to sue them. Because if it’s a lawsuit they will really be telling things that he doesn’t want out there and that’s why he hasn’t done it.”
