Elisabeth Hasselbeck exposed co-host Sunny Hostin’s hypocrisy in calling President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran “illegal” on “The View” this week, asking the biased left-winger if she objected when her favorite messiah, Barack Obama, bombed Libya in 2011.
“So did you believe it was illegal in April of 2011, when the Office of Legal Counsel memo stated from President Obama that the president has constitutional authority to direct the use of military force in Libya because you could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest?” asked Hasselbeck, who was guest-hosting on the show.
“Prior congressional approval was not constitutionally required to use military force in these operations,” she said. “Where were you then complaining?”
Whoopi Goldberg cuts to a commercial break right after Elizabeth Hasselbeck CONFRONTS Sunny Hostin and asks where her complaints about “illegal” use of force were when Obama attacked Libya.
HASSELBECK: “I want to ask you why you keep calling this an undocumented attack—that you… pic.twitter.com/ZtoxyJXFhD
— Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) March 5, 2026
“I was at home complaining,” Hostin claimed, after noting that she wasn’t on the show then. “But I wasn’t complaining because the Office of Legal Counsel was involved.”
“This president [Trump] does not go through the Office of Legal Counsel,” she continued, before spewing Democratic Party talking points. “This president does not go to Congress. Congress has the power to enact — to approve wars. This Congress has the power of the purse. This president is acting more like a king than anything else. He is the commander in chief, but he is not a king.”
Hostin then claimed that Trump violated the U.S. Constitution when he ordered the strikes without getting approval from Congress.
“I don’t think that this was done appropriately. I maintain that this is illegal and unconstitutional,” she said.
Hasselbeck asked Hostin if she liked the outcome of the attack on Iran, and she shot back, “No, I don’t.”
After a commercial break, co-host Sara Haines further exposed Hostin’s Trump Derangement Syndrome when she reminded her that “every modern president” has taken similar action as Trump.
“In regard to what Sunny’s saying about it being an illegal war, every modern president since Reagan has done this in attacks — from Syria, Libya, Bosnia, Panama. So it happens continually, to give it context,” Haines said. “Congress has ceded this power a long time ago. And I have a lot of criticisms of Congress, and this is one of them. If you want to be part of the conversation, don’t hand your power over to the presidents, which they have done.”
Social media users seemed to agree that Hostin was no match for Hasselbeck — here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:
ABC needs to give this woman her permanent chair back immediately.
— Overton (@overton_news) March 5, 2026
Sunny Hostin thinks a lot of herself. She simply drowns out everyone she disagrees with. She’s always wrong.
— nowIsee (@42889na) March 5, 2026
Why does @ABC let Hostin misrepresent facts?
She says she’s a lawyer, yet the office of legal counsel set a precedent. We ignore case law?— KDugan1850🇺🇸 (@KDugan1850) March 5, 2026
Sunny Hostin is an IDIOT.
The last time the US Congress formally declared war was on June 4, 1942 (with President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the declarations on June 5, 1942), during World War II. These declarations were against Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania—all…
— auburnwarrior (@auburnwarrior1) March 5, 2026
Elizabeth Hasselbeck has more brains in her pinky finger than Sunny Hostin has, period. Sunny sure does not act like she was ever an attorney. Even Whoopi could see this was going south for Sunny.
— Michele (@Hounddoglover99) March 5, 2026
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