Over the years, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been a frequent source of outrage for the co-hosts of *The View*. However, when Greene made her debut on this morning’s episode of the popular daytime talk show, she surprised the women—including Sunny Hostin—by how much common ground they could find.
While their views on former President Donald Trump differed vastly, Greene’s “America first” argument, her thoughts on the War in Gaza, and her desire to end the government shutdown aligned closely with the positions the mostly liberal co-hosts often advocate. The level of agreement was such that Hostin openly expressed her surprise.
“I’m sitting here just stumped, because you are a very different person than I thought you were,” Hostin remarked. Greene responded, “Well, you’ve only seen me in clips and headlines, and that’s not fair.”
Hostin then brought up several issues where Greene has broken with her party, as well as some of her more controversial moments—including “spats” with colleagues and her previous promotion of QAnon conspiracy theories.
“But you seem to have grown past that,” Hostin argued. “I feel like I’m sitting next to a completely different Marjorie Taylor Greene. Why the change? Why the evolution? You’ve gone so far right, you’re on the left now.”
Greene quickly countered by saying, “I’m not on the left,” but added that “both sides” tell lies about each other.
“All of this two-party fighting, you guys are all victims of the political industrial complex,” she explained. “It’s built on fundraising and fighting and toxic garbage. That exists all over social media, but it’s not going to solve our problems in this country.”
She continued, “I haven’t changed. I was a victim, just like you were, of media lies and stuff you read on social media.” Greene reminded Hostin that she and her co-hosts have “attacked” her many times on *The View* because of things they “read about [her] that weren’t true.”
“We have!” Hostin agreed.
*The View* airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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