Meghan McCain would like to speak to the manager. And by “the manager” we actually mean her lawyers, who she has threatened to consult over insinuations she believes were made about her yesterday on The View.
It all started during a conversation about Hunter Biden (🥱🥱🥱), when co-host Ana Navarro brought up influence peddling, which is when a person uses their position or political influence to curry favors.
“Look, did Hunter Biden influence peddle on his last name? Yes, he did. So did half of Washington. People sitting at this table did it!” Navarro, a Republican, said.
After clarifying that she wasn’t referring to anyone currently sitting at the table, the other co-hosts all laughed, along with the audience, and the conversation quickly moved on.
Watch.
McCain responded her usual totally reasonable, totally rational, totally not dramatic way… by going on Twitter X and threatening to sue.
“I don’t understand why my former colleagues @TheView @ABC bring me up and slander me on an almost weekly basis,” she tweeted yesterday. “It has been years – move on, I have.”
She continued, “I have never been accused of a crime in my life and am a patriotic American – I would never and have never ‘influenced peddled’ in my life, let alone with foreign adversaries. Not all politicians children are the same – and I am no Hunter Biden. All accusations are absurd, defamatory and slanderous.”
“I will be consulting my lawyers regarding what was libeled against me on The View this morning.”
OK first, Meghan, calm down. Nobody accused you of “committing crimes.” ❄️❄️❄️
Second, slander and libel are two different things.
Third, Navarro didn’t call anyone out by name, and there have been many co-hosts on The View over the years, so she could have been referring to anyone. As the old saying goes: “Not everything is about you.”
And fourth, you just did an interview back in October comparing your former colleagues to a bad ex-boyfriend and said you don’t watch the show anymore. (Your exact words were “I don’t have time to watch this kind of content,” but maybe yesterday was an exception?)
Let’s also not forget about that scorched-earth memoir you published last year in which you talked all about how much you hated being on The View, working with Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, and talking to many of the guests, including the beloved Nathan Lane, who you called “a d*ck.”
Now, what was that you said about “moving on” again?
(Sidenote: We’ve interviewed Nathan Lane here at Queerty and we are happy to report he is a lovely person and an absolute joy to talk to!)
McCain has acknowledged in the past that she’s relied on her last name to get ahead in her life and career, even issuing a shoutout to all her fellow “nepo babies” on Instagram last year.
“To my fellow ‘Nepo babies’—just acknowledge your privilege, the opportunities your last name has gotten you and move on,” she famously wrote on her Instagram Stories in December 2022. “It’s pretty simple.”
She’s also never missed an opportunity to remind everyone who her father was. (The late Senator John McCain, in case anyone forgot.)
Here’s how folx have been responding to Meghan’s tweet…
Not a nepo baby threatening litigation because her former colleagues don't like her 😭
— Lee Meyer (@leemeyer26) December 14, 2023
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. One could ask, are you telling on yourself, dear.
— Hojo65 🇺🇸 (@ados_strong) December 14, 2023
Karma!🤣You have slandered many, many people on air the WHOLE TIME YOU WERE ON @TheView! And no…you are not Hunter Biden bcuz he doesn't hate like you. YOU slandered Hunter just now by what U wrote! #Accusations against Hunter Biden & Pres Biden are just 'accusations'. Go away.
— Mittens 🇺🇦🌾🌻 (@mushroomfeet) December 14, 2023
I thought your brand is the “Reasonable” Republican. How’s that working out for you?
— RuvalDee (@DeeRuval) December 15, 2023
— JAIME (@justice4equity) December 14, 2023
You're a public figure. The rules are different for public figures and you'd get laughed out of court.
— Holy Bullies (@holybullies) December 14, 2023
It was a cheap shot but you've got no case. Save your money.
— Big Bend 1911 (@Charles07788205) December 15, 2023
I watch every day and haven't heard them mention you (haven't watched yet today). You however wrote a scathing article about your time there, snowflake.
— Lisa says (@brunofan2012) December 14, 2023
Ana didn’t mention your name. The fact that you think it was about you is not her problem.
— David (@SoWhat_WhoCares) December 14, 2023
1) It would be slander, not libel.
— Jon_in_Florida (@Jon_in_Florida) December 14, 2023
2) Those on The View are clearly given their opinion, not stating facts.
3) You obviously haven't moved on.
dbmcvey
Meghan McCain: I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK!!!
barryaksarben
I laughed out loud t this because I recognized it but cant remember who said it . Please remind me.
Baron Wiseman
Meghan McCain should count her blessings and be thankful she is no longer on a show where they share three brain cells between them.
Why anyone would watch such a toxic national embarrassment is beyond me.
dbmcvey
Yes, Meghan is a toxic national embarrassment.
As are gays who support anti-gay politicians.
Oh, so Baron, that means you are a toxic national embarrassment.
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
I don’t believe I have ever supported an “anti-gay politician.” Since you know so much about me, please enlighten me and tell me which ones I have supported.
dbmcvey
Baron lives his life by one word.
DELUSION.
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
I’m still waiting on those names. You made an accusation, like you always do, so put up or shut up.
dbmcvey
Pretty much anyone who is an anti-trans as you.
dbmcvey
You’re supporting the Republicans in their idiotic impeachment of Joe Biden, though they have no evidence and can’t even come up with a charge. You support the anti-gay Bud Light boycott. You regularly defend Donald Trump.
Really Baron, stop pretending to be something you’re not. No one is fooled.
dbmcvey
You also went out of your way to defend Kavanaugh, Melania Trump, while making statements that come directly from right wing, anti-gay propaganda sites, while also attacking actual LGBT performers and people who are actually working for our community.
Of course, these are only things you do under this name. Who knows what your other sock puppets are doing.
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
Do you know the difference between anti-gay and anti-trans? Apparently, not.
Please give me an anti-gay quote from President Trump, Melania Trump and Justice Kavanaugh (since those are the ones you mentioned).
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dbmcvey
Even your friend Meghan McCain here, for all her talk of being a gay ally, she continued to vote for anti-gay politicians and support their policies. She’d use her gay friends as props to deflect, until they asked her to stop.
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
Still waiting on those quotes, smart boy.
By the way, I’ve never been a Meghan McCain supporter. I could barely vote for her Dad.
Still waiting….
PoetDaddy
How can I BLOCK his Baron Wiseman thing?
barryaksarben
Now Baron IU thought wed talked about this and agsin we all know what you are and it isn NOT Gay. You are all over this site EXCEPT when there is a hot naked guy so we know you are a lying pig. You have commented once about the loose morals of gays or the. oversexed gays or whatever fault you accuse gays of. you are a tired. straight intern for one of those closeted maga congress people. Is it MTG like Milo yanbapolpolis or whatever that old has beens name was. We also know your other names so try to keep up . NO one here cares about any of your hate filled comments. we are laughing at them actually because they are so predictable. Cmon just give up and admit you are gay. stop finding sex in bathrooms and then crying about it
Ronbo
dbmcvey’s false statements renders the entire argument moot – a disservice to logic and reason. One can not claim something by simply imagining it to be true. Come in and join the real world where there is room for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Instead of increasingly extremist rants, lies and hate, perhaps you’d be more effective telling the truth. If you truly want to change Baron, begin with honesty. Lies rarely change minds and are just an invitation to corruption.
Your unsubstantiated assertions attacking those with whom you disagree, is just a Republican tactic. They blame others for what they KNOW that they, themselves, are doing, Is that true of both you and Meghan?
“I think the lady doth protest too much.” Your unwavering lies, reveal more about you and Meghan, than Baron.
randeman
@PoetDaddy Looking to take out the trash?
Invader7
GOP rule # 1 : Don’t do as I do, do as I say !!! Another gop hypocrite…
ZzBomb
She’s just mad that her current career is going no where and her husband’s career is also in the gutter as well.
Jealousy is not a good look.
dbmcvey
When her father died, so did her career.
ShaverC
The difference is that Hunter is allegedly, peddling the influence of the leader of a powerful country, getting money for political favors. Do people here really think there is nothing wrong with that?
dbmcvey
Hunter Biden was indicted for not paying taxes.
What are you talking about?
Mack
If he did, then he should stand trial for it. But it appears that Jared needs to answer as how he got $billions from the Saudi. Seems to be the enforcement of the law is one sided. Did just Jared benefit or was Trump the actual receiver? Seems to me the Republicans wants their way and their party is exempt from following laws.
ShaverC
dbmcvey Didn’t we go over this before?
Mack, BOTH parties do it and BOTH parties need to be held accountable.
dbmcvey
You’re lying Shaves. But, if you really want to get into it over influence peddling by relatives of politicians I’d be happy to do that.
decrans
1) Romania: On September 28, 2015, Vice President Biden welcomed Romanian President Klaus Iohannis to the White House. Within five weeks of this meeting, a Romanian businessman involved with a high-profile corruption prosecution in Romania, Gabriel Popoviciu, began depositing a Biden associate’s bank account, which ultimately made their way into Biden family accounts. Popoviciu made sixteen of the seventeen payments, totaling over $3 million, to the Biden associate account while Joe Biden was Vice President. Biden family accounts ultimately received approximately $1.038 million. The total amount from Romania to the Biden family and their associates is over $3 million.
2) China- CEFC: On March 1, 2017—less than two months after Vice President Joe Biden left public office—State Energy HK Limited, a Chinese company, wired $3 million to a Biden associate’s account. This is the same bank account used in the above “Romania” section. After the Chinese company wired the Biden associate account the $3 million, the Biden family received approximately $1,065,692 over a three-month period in different bank accounts. Additionally, the CEFC Chairman gives Hunter Biden a diamond worth $80,000. Lastly, CEFC creates a joint venture with the Bidens in the summer of 2017. The timeline lays out the “WhatsApp” messages and subsequent wires from the Chinese to the Bidens of $100,000 and $5 million. The total amount from China, specifically with CEFC and their related entities, to the Biden family and their associates is over $8 million.
3) China- Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. (BHR): More information will be provided in our upcoming Fourth Bank Memorandum.
4) Kazakhstan: On April 22, 2014, Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakhstani oligarch used his Singaporean entity, Novatus Holdings, to wire one of Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca entities $142,300. The very next day—April 23, 2014—the Rosemont Seneca entity transferred the exact same amount of money to a car dealership for a car for Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden and Devon Archer would represent Burisma in Kazakhstan in May/June of 2014 as the company attempted to broker a three-way deal among Burisma, the Kazakhstan government, and a Chinese state-owned energy company.
5) Ukraine: Devon Archer joined the Burisma board of directors in spring of 2014 and was joined by Hunter Biden shortly thereafter. Hunter Biden joined the company as counsel, but after a meeting with Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky in Lake Como, Italy, was elevated to the board of directors in the spring of 2014. Both Biden and Archer were each paid $1 million per year for their positions on the board of directors. In December 2015, after a Burisma board of directors meeting, Zlochevsky and Hunter Biden “called D.C.” in the wake of mounting pressures the company was facing. Zlochevsky was later charged with bribing Ukrainian officials with $6 million in an attempt to delay or drop the investigation into his company. The total amount from Ukraine to the Biden family and their associates is $6.5 million.
6) Russia: On February 14, 2014, a Russian oligarch and Russia’s richest woman, Yelena Baturina, wired a Rosemont Seneca entity $3.5 million. On March 11, 2014, the wire was split up: $750,000 was transferred to Devon Archer, and the remainder was sent to Rosemont Seneca Bohai, a company Devon Archer and Hunter Biden split equally. In spring of 2014, Yelena Baturina joined Hunter Biden and Devon Archer to share a meal with then-Vice President Biden at a restaurant in Washington, D.C. The total amount from Russia to the Biden family and their associates is $3.5 million.
RGL
Decrans: Hunter Biden was indited for not paying taxes, not influence peddling. Nothing you have mentioned covers that. And let’s look at facts.
1) millions of people every year don’t pay their taxes. And the vast majority of those who don’t are able to work out arrangements with the IRS that don’t involve them being charged with a misdemeanor, much less a felony. So is Hunter Biden being treated “differently” by the IRS in this situation? Absolutely, but not in the way that Republicans want you to think. 2) Hunter Biden was NEVER a government employee. But Jaren Kushner absolutely was – in the White House in fact. And 2 months after he left his government job the Saudi’s deposited over $2 billion in his business. That is what the Republicans should be investigating. The Republicans have admitted already that they have no evidence – they’re not in search of a smoking gun – they’re in search of a gun PERIOD. Can you even begin to explain why the House Republicans won’t let Hunter testify publicly? Could it be because they can’t control the narrative if he does?
decrans
Those are the facts. That’s the current evidence released to the House Means and Oversight Committee. The current framework allows the House Means and Oversight Committee to investigate any subject they see fit. Don’t like it? That’s the way that it’s been laid out for eons. The Jared and Ivanka comparisons are moot. So what that he didn’t officially work in The White House. The fact remains that he represented himself as part of the US government and traded favor with nefarious and corrupt businesses. These actions include illegal foreign lobbying, money laundering, and even bribery, which the DOJ has every right to investigate. And that’s where we are currently at: an investigation. And again, your whataboutisms are moot with me. Jared and Ivanka should be investigated, too.
barryaksarben
Hunter Biden is messy drug addict who hadn’t the sense to use his dads name to do anything because he was shamed. While Ivanka and her brothers learned early from daddy all having stolen from charities and his kids are the worst nepotism bad bees ever. AND baron we dont need quotes because trumps action and Kavanaughs actions tell us all we need to know. Yes, bring up the same tired shit comment about bill Clinton not risking his career supporting gay marriage back in the day because it is total bs. The Republican Party hates us and always has. I went through the AIDS era where storm. Thurmond wanted us in concentration camps and Reagan was too much a coward to even say the word. Barron how many times do I have to point out. we dont care one little shit about your straight boy pretending to Begay fantasy. I know you pop a tiny boner when your posting here but that isn’t our problem thank GOD
Mary Jane
Shaver, go vent with McCain, so both of you can feel like you are part of the women on the View.
Take Baron Wiseman with you. God!!!
Ronbo
It’s ALWAYS wrong to lie, cheat and steal. Can we stop making excuses please. If it’s wrong for tRump it’s wrong for Hunter. Hypocrites say otherwise.
Shaver’s words are truthful “BOTH parties do it and BOTH parties need to be held accountable.”
MikeM
Was Jenna Bush really the most qualified for her spot on the Today Show? Did Angelina Jolie have an advantage? Jane Fonda? Liza with a Z?
Claytonisahobo
They didn’t mention her by name(and yes we all know who Anna was talking about) but defamation, really girl? Take several seats and just go away.
Fname Optional Lname
Anytime anyone was ever nice to her, offered her a job, mentioned her name in a positive or even neutral light – it was a favor to her father and nothing more. She has never done or acquired anything in her life that didn’t have Daddy’s name attached to it. She is hanging on by a thread and still has the nerve to act outraged? She just wanted to bring her name up in hopes that she might trend for 15 minutes. How awfully sad. Tomorrow if the color of the day on Sesame Street is blue she will say they were talking about her and threaten to sue Elmo.
Ronbo
THIS!
Meghan is just a professional “Karen”.
Georgeiv2
Who is Meghan McCain ? wasn’t she someone’s daughter ?
barryaksarben
ask Declan’s as a gay man he would know but he isnta gay man he is a tiny wicked straight guy who has ZERO life and has to spend his inches time coming here because he is jealous because we can all get laid and he swears he is intel by choice but its because NO one man or woman would ever. give him a shot. DECRANS its isn’t your tiny meat that no one wants it is no one wants YOU
decrans
First off, it’s seven inches. Secondly, write in complete sentences, you illiterate dumb f u c k. You have the brain matter of a Trump supporter.
Ronbo
Barry’s hate has overtaken his moral center. Come back Barry, tell the truth and be part of society. Or, just keep lying and confirm your tRumpish extremism.
Decrans, stop baiting the kids with hateful ad hominems. While the insults are occasionally true (Barry mostly mimics tRump supporters), it only further divides the community.
We can be more than extremists. We brought about equality with love, compassion and understanding. Acting otherwise, we will likely lose the equality we fought hard to earn.
If one truly despises tRumpism, they would rise above name-calling and insults. There are many, many truths that would resonate with logic and reason.
CNY1983
yick! all of it and her.
winemaker
It’s the view and really who watches this trash and waste of an hour of valuable time that not only is a waste of time but insults you and your inteligence at the same time? Really this discussion show was decent when it premiered some 25 years ago, the original host ladies along with barbara walters were civil, polite and respectful to all the guests even those with different ‘views’. Over the years it’s gotten to be nothing but a bunch of kvetching old yentas ( a yiddish term for a nosey old woman) that are perpetualy on the rag and have nothing positive to offer but indigestion, headaches and God help any conservative guest as they’ll be trashed by these so called ‘experts’ that seem to know it all about everything when in reality, they don’t know SQUAT.. I could go on but what’s the point? At least Jerry Springer was entertaining with all the weird guests and their strange proclivities that made you realize your problems were miniscule compared to some of these weirdos. Really, who cares much less gives a rats rectum, it’s the ‘view’ but a very limited view at that.
randeman
Feel free not to watch it.