‘The View’: Joy Behar Says Ghislaine Maxwell ‘Better Be Careful’ Amid Trump-Epstein Fallout

For the third consecutive day this week, the first “Hot Topic” of the day on Wednesday’s (July 16) new edition of The View was the continued backlash Donald Trump and his administration are receiving over their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein “files.” This time, the cohosts reviewed footage of mega-podcaster Joe Rogan, who endorsed Trump in the 2024 election, expressing his dismay over the administration’s claim there is no “list” of high-profile child sex trafficking clients and Trump’s own insistence that his followers should just let the story go.

Whoopi Goldberg began the discussion by dragging Trump’s recent claim that the Epstein files were created as a “hoax” by Barack Obama and Joe Biden, saying, “All you have to do is look at anything from the time, and you’ll see who was president.” She was referring, of course, to the fact that Epstein was arrested by the federal government for his prostitution ring in 2019, when Trump was president, and died in his cell, reportedly by suicide, just weeks later.