Sunny Hostin clashes with Griffin on 'The View' for comparing Jan 6 with BLM protests

WASHINGTON, DC: Two of 'The View' co-hosts locked horns after one of them compared the January 6 Capitol Hill violence with Black Lives Matter protests. 

Sunny Hostin interrupted her colleague Alyssa Farah Griffin on the latest episode of the show released on Thursday, May 21, after she said that people think that compensating the people who participated in the Capitol Hill protest on January 6, 2021, would be similar to compensating the Black Lives Matter protesters.

'The View' hosts lock horns over Trump's $1.7B fund

The confrontation between Hostin and Griffin occurred during the panel’s discussion of the Trump administration’s $1.7 billion anti-weaponization fund to compensate those wrongly targeted by the former Biden administration.

While the federal government says anybody can apply for compensation from public funds, critics say it is built to benefit Trump’s allies.

Griffin said: “To put it into terms that I would hope that folks on the right would understand is, I remember in 2020, Republicans were big mad that Kamala Harris tweeted out that people should give money to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which essentially offered cash bail for people who participated in the Black Lives Matter protest."

"People were saying that’s bailing out people who destroyed property, who may have assaulted police officers. It was a big —," she added.

“It was very limited destruction of property,” Hostin replied.

Alyssa Griffin argues against compensation to Jan 6 convicts

Griffin further questioned the Trump admin’s plan to compensate those “convicted of assaulting police officers.” 

“They’ve since had their sentences commuted or been pardoned by the president. But now they’re going to get financial compensation? Like, make that make sense to me,” she added.

Hostin interjected, “I just think we need to make it clear that there can be no comparison between the Black Lives Matter movement and what we saw on January 6th. I just want to make that clear.” 

“And that’s not the suggestion,” Griffin said.

“I know that wasn’t your suggestion but you know, people who watch our show take away different things, so I just want to make that part clear. There were very limited destruction of property and violence during the uprising of the Black Lives Matter uprising," she added. 

“And no threats to the president,” Whoopi Goldberg added.