The View co-host Joy Behar claimed on Tuesday that Governor Greg Abbott of R-Texas was a “sadist” when discussing an upcoming lawsuit against the Texas governor over securing the southern border.
“Abbott has a habit of being a sadist. I looked up the word sadist, he’s a one that gets pleasure, sometimes sexual gratification – I do not think that is his problem – from inflicting pain, suffering or humiliation on others,” she said.
Behar said the Texas governor signed a bill stripping construction employees of “the proper to water breaks every 4 hours and time to rest within the shade.”
“He has sadistic tendencies. And folks in Texas could have Beto O’Rourke and so they let him through and put a sadist in there, and so they have to take into consideration that in Texas,” she continued.
The Justice Department said it plans to sue Texas Governor Greg Abbott for using a floating border barrier to discourage illegal immigration into the state.
Abbott responded to the letter on Twitter, saying that Texas “has the sovereign right to defend our border under the Structure of the USA and the Structure of Texas. We now have sent quite a few letters to the Biden administration detailing our powers, including one which I personally delivered to President Biden earlier this 12 months.”
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Co-host Sunny Hostin said Abbott should focus more on gun violence within the state.
“Alright, there is a problem on the border. There’s an immigration problem on this country that has not been solved for many years. Lots of people aren’t working on it, Democrats aren’t working on it as much as they need to, Republicans aren’t working on it as much as they needs to be, but illegal entry along the southern border is down 70% from record highs for the reason that end of Title 42 on May 11, 70%,” Hostin said.
She said Abbott is addressing a problem that’s “already on the decline” moderately than “worrying concerning the gun violence that is happening in Texas.”
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin argued earlier within the segment that Democrats normally don’t “become involved” on border issues “until there is a scandal like this.”
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“We even have a border crisis that I do not think Democrats really become involved in until there is a scandal like this, whether it was an exposed story about CBP whipping migrants or something,” she said.
“It’s terrible things that shouldn’t occur, but if you happen to’re anything like Governor Abbott, he’s seen his border towns ravaged by cartels, fentanyl, by homeless migrants living in 110 degrees 5 a.m. temperatures in places like El Paso,” continued Griffin.
Abbott blamed the Biden administration in a series of tweets on Sunday and argued that the president was not doing his job.
“Texas has intercepted over 422 million lethal doses of fentanyl since 2021. That is good enough to kill all Americans,” the governor of Texas wrote. “We also made 394,200 arrests of illegal immigrants and 31,300 criminal arrests. All because Biden is not doing his job.”