Whoopi Goldberg, a co-host of ABC’s “The View,” blasted Republican senators on Monday for not speaking out against President Trump as she said he mounts “an attempted coup.”
Goldberg and her co-host Sunny Hostin criticized GOP senators for not publicly recognizing President-elect Joe Biden’s win and for not countering the promotion by Trump and his campaign of unfounded claims that voter fraud disrupted the presidential election.
“This is an attempted coup,” Goldberg said on “The View.” “This is what dictators do when they want to take a country away from its people.”
“Somebody better step up before you suddenly turn around and they have taken the country and now you have no recourse,” she added.
“Either we fix it now, or he’s gonna walk away with it because his lies are many and they go farther and farther and farther,” Goldberg continued.
Hostin joined in on the criticism, saying “What we’re seeing is a president attempting to steal an election to overturn results and in addition disenfranchise voters of color.”
“The appearance of impropriety that is happening in the Republican Party is disgraceful,” she said.
She added that the senators’ private comments against the president and his actions mean “nothing because every person is watching this not only in this country but around the world.”
A limited number of Republican senators have recognized Biden’s win, including Sens. Mitt Romney (Utah), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine), Ben Sasse (Neb.), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Shelley Moore Capito (W.V.).
Biden has been widely recognized as the president-elect for more than two weeks. But Trump has refused to concede, and his campaign filed several lawsuits contesting the vote in different battleground states.
After the election, Goldberg addressed the president’s supporters on “The View,” instructing them to “suck it up” and accept defeat after Biden’s victory.