The View co-host Sunny Hostin slammed for likening Jan. 6 riot to the Holocaust and slavery: Extraordinarily unhinged

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin was lambasted Monday for comparing the Jan.6, 2021, riot at the Capitol Building to both the Holocaust and slavery. “I think we need to find moral clarity, you know, in this country,” Hostin said on the four-year anniversary of the day supporters of President-elect Donald Trump stormed the Capitol to delay the certification of President Biden’s 2020 election victory. Hostin, 56, lamented that in her view some people have grown less outraged over the incident as time has gone on. “I just remember after January 6th, you had someone like Mitch McConnell placing the blame on January 6th where it belonged, squarely on Donald Trump’s shoulders,” she said.

“And then you started seeing people backtrack and losing their moral center.”“You have Condoleeza Rice, I believe, on this very show saying, you know, we need to move on from January 6th.I say, no, you don’t move on, because January 6th was an atrocity.

It was one of the worst moments in American history,” Hostin declared. The former federal prosecutor then brazenly compared the riot to the Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews, as well as the legal institution that treated enslaved people as personal property. “And when you think about the worst moments in American history, you know, like World War II, things that happened, you know, like the Holocaust, chattel slavery – we need to never forget because the past becomes prologue if you forget and erase,” Hostin argued. “The View” co-host’s comparison drew strong backlash. “Already today, we have heard some people in other venues say extraordinarily unhinged and vile things – comparing January 6th to the Holocaust, to slavery, to World War II,” CNN political commentator Scott Jennings said during the network’s broadcast of the certification of Trump’s 2024 election win. “I think we need to arrange our feelings and control ourselves accordingly here, and not go off the deep end,” ...