For over a year ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, “The View” — ABC’s purported “bona fide news program” — repeatedly claimed that President Trump would steal the midterm elections. Without evidence, they made wild assertions that he would use the National Guard and ICE to take over voting and counting facilities, hack the voting systems and change the results, use Social Security Numbers to control how people voted, and even claimed people had been murdered as part of the plot.
Obviously, none of that came to pass, yet “The View” has not answered for its lies or the consequences that could stem from them.
In July of 2025 , “The View” compared the ICE raids in California and subsequent reinforcement by the National Guard to “1938” Germany and the Nazis who were “just following orders.” “I think he is trying to use the might have the military to suppress peoples’ rights. I think that is very clear. When you use the military against your own citizens, that is a sign of fascism,” Sunny Hostin declared.
By October, that animosity toward the National Guard had morphed into claims that it was a “pretext” and dry run for a military takeover during the midterms the following year. “This ...