Joy Behar wants members of Congress to do their job and show some “testicularity.”
“The View” launched into a discussion Wednesday about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, and wagered that he’ll get the job despite his past controversies.
Kennedy Jr. clashed with Democratic senators during his first confirmation hearing Wednesday and was accused the day prior by his cousin Caroline Kennedy of being “a predator” who allegedly used to put animals in a blender “to feed his hawks.”
When “View,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked if this was enough to see the nomination fail, Behar replied, “I don’t think so” — and reminded viewers that former Fox News host Pete Hegseth was confirmed as Secretary of Defense after getting accused of sexual assault.
“So it doesn’t matter,” Behar said Wednesday. “We’re in a very bad situation in this country right now where there’s nobody in Congress that I’m watching who has the, how should I put this, the ‘testicularity’ required of the job, and I’m frightened by it, frankly.”
She continued, “I see this every day, all these people capitulating to Trump and his dictatorial needs. And it’s just very, very bad, I think. We’re in a lot of trouble.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) thoroughly questioned Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday about his public anti-vaccine stance. However, Kennedy Jr. claimed he was “supportive of vaccines” and admitted that his children had been vaccinated.
“View” co-host Sara Haines thus slammed him as a hypocrite for “keeping that on the DL” until Wednesday while encouraging vaccine skepticism among his base, which Kennedy Jr.’s cousin described as one of his many “conspiratorial half-truths” in a letter Tuesday.
“Bobby preys on the desperation of parents of sick children,” Caroline Kennedy warned lawmakers in a document obtained by The Washington Post, “vaccinating his own kids while building a following hypocritically discouraging other parents from vaccinating theirs.”
“View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin called Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday a “radical lunatic,” meanwhile, but also said she supports his criticisms of unhealthy food additives in the U.S. and “all of these chemicals that you don’t have in Europe” — but wants someone else to lead the charge.
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“I don’t think he’s the only person who can do that,” she said. “Most Americans are coming around to that perspective, so why not put in somebody who doesn’t have the baggage, that hasn’t spread conspiracy theories, who wants to tackle those things?”