“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg on Monday in contrast the “Trump prepare” of pickups that recklessly swarmed a Joe Biden marketing campaign bus caravan in Texas final week to the murderous Black voter intimidation portrayed within the 1988 film “Mississippi Burning.”

Her co-hosts joined in with their very own expressions of horror over the hateful ways within the days earlier than the presidential election.

CNN’s Ana Navarro, a visitor host on “The View,” known as out Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), calling him a “shallow little hypocrite” for praising the reckless drivers within the Texas freeway ambush. “We love what they did!” he’d gushed at a Donald Trump rally within the Miami space on Sunday.

Scores of pickups swarmed the Biden marketing campaign bus and accompanying vehicles on busy Interstate 35 outdoors of Austin on Friday. One sideswiped a Biden marketing campaign automobile, which despatched it skidding into one other lane. Whereas the FBI launched an investigation into the incident, Trump praised the threatening truckers as “patriots.”

Goldberg known as the freeway intimidation “one of the crucial harmful issues you may do,” risking the lives of the drivers concerned and people close by.

“You would have induced every kind of havoc,” she stated in a message to “Trump prepare” members. “You would have gotten yourselves killed. … Thank God this [bus driver] … slowed so as to allow you to do what you probably did.”

Goldberg stated it “appeared so much like a scene out of ‘Mississippi Burning,’” which was “actually freaky to see.”

That movie portrayed the real-life FBI investigation into the murders of three younger civil rights activists who had been working to register Black voters in 1964. Scenes of the threats they confronted included chilling pursuits by armed white supremacists (together with police) in vehicles and pickup vans.

Navarro blasted Rubio for praising the truckers on the Trump marketing campaign rally at an airport in Miami-Dade County.

“It endangered folks’s lives! Individuals might have been damage. It’s an aggression in opposition to democracy, in opposition to folks’s rights to vote,” Navarro stated. “It’s suppression, it’s instilling concern in folks, it’s completely flawed.”

“Marco Rubio, you who speak about socialism and who speak about dictatorships, to be making enjoyable of this … you shallow little hypocrite! I’m so embarrassed I ever, ever supported you,” stated Navarro, a longtime Republican strategist and commentator who has turn into a vocal opponent of Trump.

Co-host Sunny Hostin puzzled how Trump, who she stated “has emboldened bigots and racists to come back out from underneath their rocks,” would have reacted to the identical motion by Black Lives Matter protesters, whom he has characterised as “terrorists.”

Try a clip of “The View” up prime.

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