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Joy Behar Resurrects Disputed ‘Suckers And Losers’ Story To Attack Trump Over West Point Speech

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“The View” co-host Joy Behar resurrected a contested story on Tuesday about President Donald Trump calling veterans “suckers and losers” in an attempt to attack his Saturday commencement speech at West Point.

An article by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in September 2020 claimed that Trump told his senior staff that Aisne-Marne American Cemetery is filled with “losers” who were “suckers” for getting killed. Despite almost every person on the trip in Paris, France, denying that Trump ever said those things, Behar claimed that story to be true and criticized West Point for inviting him to speak at the commencement.

“What I don’t understand is, according to [former White House chief of staff John] Kelly, [Trump] called our soldiers losers and suckers,” Behar said. “So why would they invite him to speak at West Point and wearing the [MAGA] hat was a political move, also. It’s politics, the hat is politics. It’s not about anything but that. So he’s supposed to be not political at West Point or Arlington Cemetery and there he is being political and rambling. [CNN’s] Jake Tapper needs to do another book, because he was rambling, he’s running around, I see pictures of him running into walls.”

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Several of Trump’s aides at the time disputed The Atlantic’s report, including the then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former national security adviser John Bolton and former aide Zach Fuentes who was on the trip. Trump vehemently denied making those statements, saying he would “swear on anything” that he never said anything of the sort.

Trump, along with the then-administration officials, said they did not visit the cemetery due to bad weather conditions.

Behar was previously forced to correct several statements she had made on-air, including her remark about White House adviser Elon Musk, who she baselessly claimed supported apartheid when he lived in South Africa. She immediately walked back her statement in the next segment, given that Musk attended an anti-apartheid concert that opposed the racial system, according to an excerpt of Walter Isaacson’s 2023 book, “Elon Musk.”

The longtime co-host also had to immediately clean up her remark in November 2023 after she suggested that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election.