Whoopi Goldberg Claims Lindsay Clancy Haters Sound Like Pete Hegseth

Goldberg made the connection during the Tuesday episode of The View, as the hosts took turns sharing their thoughts on the murder trial which has dominated headlines.

Her take: critics who discount Clancy’s claim of postpartum psychosis — and that it was improperly treated before she killed her three children — share the same anti-woman mindset as Hegseth.

“I’m gonna point out the fact that women and medicine, people generally don’t believe women when they come in and say something’s wrong,” Goldberg said. “They pat you on the head — and it’s the same sort of argument that this Hegseth person is using about why women shouldn’t be in the military: because we get periods, okay.”

Goldberg added she was “not surprised” men scoffed at Clancy’s defense, because when it comes to taking female health issues seriously, “they never do.”

While Hegseth has not made specific comments about the menstrual cycles of female troops, he has made the case men are physically better suited for war.

“I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles,” Hegseth said during a November 2024 podcast interview. “It hasn’t made us more effective. Hasn’t made us more lethal. Has made fighting more complicated.”

He has said at other times, “women cannot physically meet the same standards as men,” and wrote in his 2024 book The War on Warriors, “Dads push us to take risks. Moms put the training wheels on our bikes. We need moms. But not in the military, especially in combat units.”

Goldberg’s connection between Hegseth and Clancy’s critics comes after Clancy’s murder trial was declared a mistrial.

Her co-host Sunny Hostin said she understood the “moral thing” which made one juror not want to acquit Clancy on three charges of first-degree murder, but she also saw the defense’s argument for acquitting Clancy on grounds of insanity.

“It’s about criminal responsibility, not whether or not she did it or not,” Hostin said. “We know she killed her children. She also tried to kill herself.”

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin added she felt sympathy for Clancy’s mental health issues, but did not think she should escape a murder conviction.

“I’m not putting any blame on her husband here, but she did say, ‘I have had thoughts of harming the child.’ She never should have been alone in a home with those kids. Those doctors, [and] the medical system failed her,” Griffin said. “But where I agree with this one juror holding out is while psychosis explains it, while it should be factored into the sentencing, she still did kill her kids, and that does not exonerate her in my eyes.”

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