Vice President Vance Assailed On All Sides By The View’s Lies

Vice President J.D. Vance waded into the pit of vipers that is ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday. Armed with his wit and the facts, Vance was assailed on all sides by the panel of liberal ladies who slung lies and conspiracy theories at him, and he defused all of it — many times by just asking for evidence or questioning where it came from, and often triggering them.

Almost out of the gate, Vance had to defuse mischaracterizations of President Donald Trump’s comments about the economy and affordability. “President Trump has called affordability a hoax. He said that, not me,” claimed Joy Behar. In one of her many out-of-turn questions, Ana Navarro chided, “He [Trump] just said he loved the inflation.”

“Well, I got to defend the president on the hoax point. What the president said is the idea that Republicans caused the affordability problem is a hoax,” Vance told Behar. To Navarro, he noted: “What he said is that he loves the fact the inflation is going to come down when this war is over. That’s what he said.”

And we get the first clash.
Vance FACT-CHECKS The View for spewing misinformation about what Trump has said about inflation. pic.twitter.com/1DLYMZzcz1

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 16, 2026

Interrupting Vance’s answer to a question about the Epstein files, Navarro tried to implicate Trump in the billionaire’s crimes by noting, “They were best friends for a decade.” Vance was still able to get in his fact-check:

So, number one is, yes, Donald Trump said this. He knew Epstein back in the 1980s. He also threw Epstein out of his club when he found out he was a creep and reported him to the police. That’s something the media often misses when it reports the story. They tell the fact they knew each other in the ’80s, which the president himself admits. They ignore the fact that he narced on him to the police and ultimately led to Jeffrey Epstein’s downfall.

It’s worth noting that moderator Whoopi Goldberg had shifting explanations after a NewsBusters investigation of the Epstein files found an email from someone associated with her requesting to borrow his infamous jet.

Sunny Hostin asks Vance about releasing the Epstein files but gets angry when he says he believes the conspiracies about Epstein and powerful people.
He point out that Epstein hates Trump and it’s evident in the emails, he calls out the media for hiding the fact Trump called the… pic.twitter.com/SVxAWsHI5v

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 16, 2026

Continuing to be a spigot of misinformation, Navarro repeatedly clashed with Vance on the issue of illegal immigration.

At one point, when Vance was setting the record straight on the lie that Trump called all Mexicans rapists and noted he was talking about Central American countries releasing criminals to go north, Navarro interrupted to falsely claim “there’s no evidence” and “this was made up.”

“Ana, we know that there were people released from prisons who were encouraged to come to the United States,” Vance pushed back. Navarro actually gave a tacit admission that it was true when she argued, “It wasn’t like it was in the Mariel [Boatlift] … it wasn’t where it was like a purposeful open up the jails, open up the insane asylums and flood Florida.”

Navarro also threw out the massive whopper, suggesting that the Trump administration was essentially torturing thousands of children:

There are thousands of children, 6,200, that are being held in places like Dilley Detention Center that people that have visited — I don’t know if you have — talk about the subhuman, infrahuman conditions, the lack of clean water, the lack of medical attention, lack of education.

Of course, she provided no evidence for such a claim, and Vance called out the story as coming from “one person with a political bias.” But when Vance seemingly tried to bring up how the Joe Biden administration lost hundreds of thousands of migrant children, he got shut down by Sunny Hostin.

On Friday’s show, Navarro said that if Trump were on the show, she would treat him the same way and “push back on the lies.”

Arguably one of the most brazen lies came from Goldberg about something that came out of her mouth during the interview.

After insinuating that Vance and the administration were racist and othering minorities, she snapped at Vance and got aggressive for accurately describing what she said:

GOLDBERG: What did black people do to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color?

(…)

VANCE: But let me just give you an example. Okay, so you say we’re anti-minority or anti-black —

GOLDBERG: No, I didn’t say that! I asked. See.

VANCE: Okay, fine. Fair. Fair.

GOLDBERG: Don’t start any stuff with me, man!

Goldberg’s comment definitely sounded accusatory to an honest listener.

Amid that exchange, when Vance asked her for a specific example of her purported claim of the erasure of black history, all she could do was get flustered and assert, “there’s so many.”

Sunny Hostin asks Vance about releasing the Epstein files but gets angry when he says he believes the conspiracies about Epstein and powerful people.
He point out that Epstein hates Trump and it’s evident in the emails, he calls out the media for hiding the fact Trump called the… pic.twitter.com/SVxAWsHI5v

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 16, 2026

So many, just like the lies “The View” tells.

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Nicholas C. Fondacaro is the associate editor for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters.