You would think that an ABC News program like The View would have some sort of journalistic standard they needed to meet, but that clearly wasn’t the case during Wednesday’s episode. In their opening segment flinging crud at Elon Musk, co-host Sunny Hostin claimed he had killed nearly 300,000 children and co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar hinted that he knew how President Trump stole the 2024 presidential election.
Before claiming Musk had the blood of nearly 300,000 children on his hands, Hostin mocked Musk for not cutting as much government spending as he wanted. “[H]e promised to slash $2 trillion from our $7 trillion budget. Then he moved it down to 1 trillion then it turns out he cut about 160 billion, which is about 2.3 percent,” she chided. “So really, he saved our country less than one percent, nothing!”
Without evidence or a citation of a source, Hostin proclaimed that Musk was personally responsible for killing all those kids:
But the damage that he did was just really incredible. He slashed 250,000 federal employees, more than 8,500 contract, more than 10,000 grants and his cutbacks on medical research cost the lives – for the foreign aid, cost 300,000 lives mostly children. That's the damage that Elon Musk did.
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