The View brutally interrogated Jill Stein about her recount efforts, and things got awkward
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein's smile looked exceptionally strained by the end of her interview with the five hosts of The View on Wednesday morning. In rapid-fire succession, the hosts tried to get to the bottom of why Stein is raising money to file recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
Stein insisted her recount effort was not launched with the intent to help Hillary Clinton at President-elect Donald Trump's expense, prompting host Joy Behar to ask: "What are you really trying to prove then?" Stein said the goal was to "help voters feel like we've got a system that's working for us" rather than to "help one candidate."
Then, host Jedediah Bila came on with a question about whether Stein really would've gone through this trouble if, say, Hillary Clinton had won the election. With more awkward laughter and dodging from Stein, host Whoopi Goldberg came in with a brutal closer. "I'm hoping that if you feel that way, that we will not have to wait four years to hear about what your ideas are or what you want to do," Goldberg said, urging Stein to do something to promote her party if she is actually so opposed to the two-party system. "Everybody has a bitch about something, but nobody wants to do anything."
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