Newsmax freaks after Whoopi Goldberg claims Trump launched war to distract from Epstein

The View’s Whoopi Goldberg sparked outrage on Newsmax Sunday after accusing President Donald Trump of launching war against Iran partly to distract from his administration’s botched handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

“The liberal media doing what they do best: spin the narrative!” noted one Newsmax host.

Goldberg’s comments were made last week on ABC’s The View, where she wondered out loud why discussions around both Epstein and the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, had chilled since the Trump administration launched its attack on Iran.

“Why haven’t we been talking about Savannah Guthrie and what's going on there, why have we not been talking about the Epstein files?” Goldberg said, her question sparking applause. “This is meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see anything else.”

Goldberg’s suggestion – that Trump launched strikes on Iran to distract Americans from the Epstein scandal plaguing his administration – is supported by a majority of Americans, who in a recent poll said by a margin of 52-40 that they believe Trump was “at least partly motivated to take military action against Iran in order to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal,” Drop Site News reported.

Nevertheless, another Newsmax anchor characterized the suggestion as a conspiracy theory before asking Curtis Houck, conservative news analyst and guest on the network, for their take on Goldberg’s comments.

“There's no new information about Nancy Guthrie, unfortunately, so that doesn't make any sense,” Houck said. “Of course, Epstein is the other example that's going on out there.”