‘The View’ co-host Pleasure Behar calls Gov. Greg Abbott a ‘sadist’

“The View” co-host Pleasure Behar claimed Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, was a “sadist” on Tuesday whereas discussing an impending lawsuit towards the Texas governor associated to securing the southern Border.

“The factor about Abbott is, he’s a sadist. I regarded up the phrase sadist, it’s an individual who derives pleasure, generally sexual gratification – I don’t assume that’s his downside – from inflicting ache, struggling or humiliation on others,” she stated. 

Behar stated that the Texas governor signed a regulation stripping building staff “of their proper to water breaks each 4 hours and time to relaxation within the shade.” 

“He has a sadistic streak. And the folks in Texas may have had Beto O’Rourke they usually handed on him and put the sadist in there, they usually want to consider that in Texas,” she continued. 

The Division of Justice stated that it plans to sue Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over using a floating buoy border barrier to cease unlawful immigration into the state.

Abbott responded on Twitter to the letter, saying that Texas “has the sovereign authority to defend our border, beneath the U.S. Structure and the Texas Structure. We’ve despatched the Biden Administration quite a few letters detailing our authority, together with the one I hand-delivered to President Biden earlier this 12 months.”

Co-host Sunny Hostin stated Abbott needs to be extra targeted on gun violence within the state. 

“Wonderful, there’s a downside on the border. There’s been an immigration downside on this nation that hasn’t been solved in a long time. Lots of people don’t work on it, Democrats don’t work on it as a lot as they need to, Republicans don’t work on it as a lot as they need to, nevertheless, illegal entries alongside the southern border decreased 70% from their document highs for the reason that finish of title 42 on Might eleventh, 70%,” Hostin stated. 

She stated Abbott was coping with an issue that was “already declining,” as an alternative of “worrying concerning the gun violence that’s in Texas.”

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin argued earlier within the phase that Democrats often don’t “interact” on border points “till there’s a scandal like this.”

“We even have a disaster on the border that I might argue Democrats don’t actually interact in till there’s a scandal like this, whether or not it was the debunked story about migrants being whipped by CBP or this,” she stated. 

“These are horrible issues that shouldn’t occur however for those who’re somebody like a Governor Abbott, he’s seen his border cities ravaged by cartels, by fentanyl, by unhoused migrants dwelling in 110-degree temperatures 5 at evening in locations like El Paso,” Griffin continued. 

Abbott blamed the Biden administration in a sequence of tweets on Sunday and argued that the president wasn’t doing his job. 

“Texas Has Seized Extra Than 422 Million Deadly Doses of Fentanyl Since 2021. Greater than sufficient to kill all Individuals,” the Texas governor wrote. “We’ve additionally made 394,200 illegal-immigrant apprehensions and 31,300 felony arrests. All as a result of Biden just isn’t doing his job.”