South Carolina Republican Senator and 2024 hopeful Tim Scott hit back at Sunny Hostin and ABC’s “The View” host on Thursday, after what he considered a racially charged attack on his relationship status.
Hostin said that there should be concern about figures like Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who would enter ‘President Scott’s’ life and potentially influence him.
Virginia Thomas has been criticized on the left for her conservative activism while her husband sits on the bench and hears cases that may be related to subjects related to that activism.
On “Hannity,” host Sean Hannity pointed out the racial element in Hostin’s remarks, noting that Justice Thomas — a black man from Savannah — married a white woman from the Great Plains.
“The Democratic Party and the progressive left, they were stuck in Jim Crow, the 1920s and ’30s,” said Scott, who is from North Charleston, SC
Scott was the first black senator elected in the South since Reconstruction, and the third overall.
Shortly after the Civil War, Mississippi elected two Black Republicans – Blanche Bruce and Hiram Revels – to the US Senate. In 2020, Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., became the first Black Democratic senator elected in the South in that term.
Tim Scott ripped “The View” hosts after comments they made about his relationship status. AP
Scott said “The View” and the left don’t want “Black men who think for themselves” – and they believe people can be anything in America except Black and conservative.
“That’s why Sunny is so radical and so disgusted with his comments. They don’t want my life story to be told because it disturbs the lies of the radical left,” he said.
Scott went on to say several hosts on “The View” have their own history of racially charged incidents, citing Joy Behar’s Halloween costume from decades ago, when she wore blackface. Behar responded to the image’s resurgence a few years ago, saying she had dressed up as a “beautiful African woman.”
Scott said Behar likely took time off when she appeared on the program earlier this year because she feared being called out personally for the act.
Sunny Hostin says she worries about someone like Ginni Thomas coming into Scott’s life.ABC/The View
“I went on ‘The View’ and had a serious conversation about the greatness of America. We should all be proud to be Americans. And I cannot, for the life of me, understand why the radical left wants a different country. This is the greatest country on Earth,” Scott said.
He added it was “disgusting and disappointing” to see the Democratic Party “descend” to the 1920s.
Earlier this year, “View” moderator Whoopi Goldberg suggested Scott had “Clarence Thomas syndrome” — because Thomas has long been criticized by the left for not toeing what they believe to be the correct legal line based on his race.
In response to that swipe, and others from the same day’s program, Scott told Fox News at the time: “We have to ignore the far left by refuting their lies with our actions.”
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