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The hosts of "The View" bid adieu to President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump on the day before they'll leave the White House.
Tuesday's episode aired about 24 hours before the couple will depart Washington, D.C., to avoid President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, and the co-hosts were glad to see him go.
<p>"Look, D.C. -- it's not an exaggeration to say it looks like a war zone right now," said co-host Meghan McCain. "I mean, this might as well be Baghdad, more U.S. troops present here than Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria combined. Everyone's definition of making America great, I don't know who they are. President Trump is leaving office with the lowest approval ratings of any modern president in history, worse than President Nixon or President Carter, currently at 29 percent. Carter was at 33 percent when he left."</p><p> "By all accounts, he's leaving as a failure in a lot of ways despite the amount of policies he's enacted that I thought were good and productive, but ultimately, I think, historically we'll look back at this administration with a deeply harsh eye," McCain added. "I just think of some words that my dad used to say, 'God may have mercy on his soul, but I don't know if the American public will,' because the way we're leaving right now and the tenor that it's going, I guess can we hope for the future. Leaving America and particularly our beautiful capital that is symbolic of the blessings of democracy and a pinnacle for, you know, as Ronald Reagan said, shining city on top of the hill that was once an inspiration for the rest of the world to leave it looking like a war zone will be his legacy."</p><p>Co-host Joy Behar was especially glad to see Melania Trump leave.</p><p>"I will miss these two like I miss PMS and hot flashes," Behar said. "Okay, good-bye, don't let the door hit you. So that's No. 1, but I think Melania is a very interesting case. We don't know that much about her. She has a 42 percent favorability. Laura Bush, in contrast, had 56 percent. Is she as bad as Trump? That's what people want to know. Is she's an active co-conspirator? Does she agree with him? Is she afraid of him?"<br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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A man from San Antonio, Texas, is out of job after he was identified in photos posted to social media partaking in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, KENS5 reports.
Matthew Carl Mazzocco, 37, was arrested Sunday afternoon and has been charged been with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on capitol grounds.
<p>KENS5 reached out to Mazzocco's employer, Synergy One Lending, and learned that the company fired him. </p><p>"For those concerned, we wish to inform you that this individual is no longer employed by our company," the company said in a statement. "Part of our core vision for our company is to build and maintain a pristine reputation. We remain steadfast to that enduring objective."</p>
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Trump supporter shocked after president commutes sentence of man who swindled him out of his life savings
January 19, 2021
President Donald Trump last week commuted the prison sentence of a man named Fred Davis Clark, Jr., who in 2015 was convicted for crimes related to a $300 million dollar Ponzi scheme.
Now the Tampa Bay Times reports that one of the man's victims, a Trump supporter named Kimball Pugmire, is not happy with the president's decision.
<p>Pugmire lost his entire life savings thanks to Clark's Ponzi scheme, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/former-cay-clubs-chief-executive-officer-sentenced-40-years-prison-connection-300" target="_blank">which the United States Department of Justice says</a> "involved sales at Cay Clubs Resorts and Marinas... to approximately 1,400 investors in the Florida Keys and elsewhere."</p><p>In an interview with the Tampa Bay Times, Pugmire said that he had hoped Clark would rot in prison for the rest of his life.</p><p>"I thought well he will probably die in prison and he deserved it," he explained. "I was thinking that's justice because now he can sit there the rest of his life contemplating what he's done to other people."</p><p>Pugmire also said that the president's decision to commute the fraudster's sentence had shaken his faith in whether Trump has been truthful with his supporters.</p><p>"I had been trying to forget all this, but it makes you wonder, even being a Trump supporter, about his honesty," he said.</p>
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