“The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin faced backlash from her fellow panelist Friday as she openly condemned the “far-left” for celebrating the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Former Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz, left-wing journalist Ken Klippenstein and other left-wing individuals publicly mocked the assassination of 50-year-old Thompson who was shot outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday. Co-host Joy Behar appeared to deny that it is the far-left celebrating the CEO’s death and immediately pivoted to criticizing Republicans’ approaches to healthcare policies.
“I too was so disturbed. I saw some prominent figures on the far-left who are celebrating this, and we have lost our collective conscience,” Griffin said, leading Behar to ask how she knows they are on the political left. “It’s online, I’m not even…
