ABC’s The View Argues That Hamas-Aligned Protestor Is A “Political Prisoner”
The View's Sunny Hostin defends Hamas sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil, calls him a "political prisoner."
REMINDER: Khalil is behind the violent Columbia University Apartheid Divest riots in New York City. pic.twitter.com/qCJzdO3V6Z
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The hosts of The View came out this week to show their support for anti-Israel protestor Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil has notoriously been involved in Hamas-aligned activities, according to the Department of Homeland Security. That didn’t stop co-host Sunny Hostin from deeming him a “political prisoner.”
Hostin: “I love how you started this, Whoopi [Goldberg], because you started it with the law, with Tom Homan saying Americans, once you are here, especially if you have a Green Card, you are a permanent legal resident of the United States. Which means that you have the constitutional protections that every American citizen has — and that includes free speech, and it certainly includes due process from being disappeared. And so I want to point out that on March 8th, a legal permanent resident who has a Green Card, his name’s Mahmoud Khalil, was taken from Columbia University housing. His pregnant wife is due next month. Plain-clothed men in New York grabbed him into an unmarked car, then moved him to Jersey, which is something that is done in authoritarian governments, and moved him to Louisiana, which is one of the worst detention centers that we know of in this country.”
“He has said — there’s a letter that everyone I hope reads — calls himself a political prisoner. I believe that he is,” Hostin continued. “He wrote on March 18th, 2025, and what is so shocking to me is that this could happen to someone who is a permanent legal resident with a Green Card, with an American wife about to have an American child being disappeared because of — because he spoke out. Because he has his freedom of speech and because he basically spoke out and gave an opinion that now the State Department is saying is against our foreign policy.”
Conveniently, Hostin omitted the basis for Secretary Rubio’s conclusion that Khalil’s views conflicted with U.S. foreign policy—namely, Khalil’s ties to an organization dedicated to undermining Western civilization, which had also incited anti-Israel demonstrations involving vandalism, violence, and intimidation targeting Jewish students and faculty. Additionally, the ABC host overlooked key updates about Khalil, including the claim that when he sought to adjust his immigration status and secure a Green Card, he allegedly concealed pertinent details about his connections to multiple groups likely to trigger scrutiny.
Trump’s Veterans Affairs Secretary Puts CNN Host On Blast With A Stunning Rebuke
.@SecVetAffairs torches Fake News CNN's @kaitlancollins: "Since you undoubtedly don't want to talk about the VA … I would like to know why CNN is hostile to veterans — especially one in Florida, where you just had a $5 million defamation suit…" pic.twitter.com/fwnkeg10Zn
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On Wednesday evening, Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins found himself sparring with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins over a Signal chat involving Trump officials and Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg. What began as an attempt to discuss veterans’ issues quickly morphed into a relentless pursuit by the anchor to dig into the group chat story. But Secretary Collins, a former Georgia Congressman, wasn’t about to let the conversation stray from his mission—and he flipped the script in a way that left the CNN host scrambling.
Kaitlin Collins: “Do you believe that a mistake was made here, though, to have this conversation, to add a reporter, and to have it on an unsupported, unclassified group setting?”
Secretary Doug Collins: “Kaitlan, as I’ve just told you, I just answered the question. I wasn’t part of it and I’m not going to speculate more than what the president has already talked about or those who have been involved have talked about — but I’d love to talk about the veterans.”
Kaitlin Collins: “And I do have questions about the veterans, but given what we saw with the group chat and how this was used. You are a member of the cabinet, you obviously know these other members, several of them who were in there. Is this typical for the cabinet to have conversations over Signal? Is this something that you use?”
Secretary Doug Collins: “All right, well, Kaitlan, since you undoubtedly don’t want to talk about the VA, I have a question as VA Secretary. I want to ask you, because I’ve been curious about this because my job is to take care of veterans, and I would like to know why CNN is hostile to veterans — especially one in Florida, where you just had a $5 million defamation suit taking offense at a veteran who was trying to help people. In fact, one of your employees actually said, ‘We’re gonna nail him.’ I have a question for you, Kaitlan. Is that employee still employed? Are you really concerned about veterans? So if we don’t want to talk about veterans now, you want to talk about everything else, I’d like to hear from CNN as the veterans’ cabinet secretary, why CNN seems to have a problem with veterans.”
Kaitlin Collins: “My question was about whether or not you, as a member of the cabinet, use this —”
Secretary Doug Collins: “No, Kaitlan, what you want to do is talk about a subject that I’ve already answered. And if you want to continue this, like this, that’s fine, but there are VA employees that are working very hard. There are veterans who get their care from the VA and they get their benefits from the VA, and it does me no good to speculate on something that I’ve already asked and answered. So I’ve answered your question, why don’t you answer mine?”
Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) Claims Trump Admin Is “Drunk With Power”
Adam Schiff, the radical Leftist senator from California, is making the odd claim that Donald Trump’s administration is “drunk with power” because of the Signal chat controversy. Schiff lays out his reasoning during a Wednesday interview on CNN’s OutFront:
Schiff: “There will be no accountability in his administration. He isn’t going to hold people responsible. He doesn’t want to fire people. He doesn’t even want to talk about it. He wants to put this off as another witch hunt, another hoax is kind of go to deflection. Don’t look at me whatever you do, America, I’m not responsible. That’s just going to breed further mistakes. We can’t have any confidence this is going to be rectified if all of those people on that chat are basically saying, there’s nothing to see here.”
“It is the sign of both the inexperience and incompetence of a lot of these people. Hegseth way out of his depth. He passed by a single vote. That vote was JD Vance in the Senate coming in to break the tie. That has not aged well. But more than that, you know, I look at someone like Ratcliffe who does have at least some modicum of experience, and nowhere in that chat does he say, hey, people, we shouldn’t be talking about this on a commercial app. Tulsi Gabbard had no experience. She has no business being there either. But for for Ratcliffe it was even more inexcusable because he knows better than this. But none of them are willing to really contradict the misuse of power.”
“There really seem like they’re drunk with power, and there’s a kind of arrogance about what we witness in this chat. Arrogance towards our allies, arrogance towards national security protocols that should be followed, just incompetence and arrogance, which is a dangerous mix for the country.”
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