"We apologize for anything we said that may have been unclear on these points," co-host Sara Haines said during the broadcast.
"On Monday, we talked about the fact that there were openly neo-Nazi demonstrators outside the Student Action Summit of the Turning Point USA group. We want to make clear these demonstrators were gathered outside the event and that they were not invited or endorsed by Turning Point USA," she explained.
"A Turning Point USA spokesman said the group '100% condemns those ideologies' and said Turning Point USA security tried to remove the neo-Nazis from the area but could not because they were on public property," she continued. "Also, Turning Point USA wanted us to clarify this was a Turning Point USA summit and not a Republican Party event."
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The organization is not fulfilled with the apology, however. "Whoopi is the one who said it. She should be the one to offer the apology," spokesman Andrew Kolvet told the Washington Examiner.
On Monday, Whoopi Goldberg claimed that "you let them in, and you knew what they were," referring to the demonstrators outside the event.
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“Neo-Nazis were out there in the front of the conference with antisemitic slurs and, you know, the Nazi swastika and a picture of a so-called Jewish person with exaggerated features, just like Goebbels did during the Third Reich. It’s the same thing, right out of that same playbook,” co-host Joy Behar also claimed.
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After the apology was issued Wednesday, guest host and ex-Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin chimed in, "They still invited Matt Gaetz though, I would just like to note," taking a shot at the representative from Florida.
After a commercial break, co-host Whoopi Goldberg attempted to walk back the comparison, saying neo-Nazi protesters had “nothing to do” with TPUSA.
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"The View hosts intentionally and falsely associated TPUSA with neo-Nazi protestors outside the event placing TPUSA in denigrating and false light and negatively impacting its public perception. Such action will not be tolerated," the letter said.
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"Specifically, the View hosts insidiously and cavalierly stated that TPUSA ‘let [neo-Nazis] in’ to its SAS event, metaphorically ‘embrace[d] them’ and that neo-Nazis were ‘in the mix of people.’ The assertion that TPUSA is complicit or affiliated in any way with the neo-Nazi protesters outside the event is outlandish, false, defamatory, and disgraceful," the letter went on to say. "Even after Ms. Haines reluctantly read the TPUSA statement that it condemns the group of neo-Nazis and that the group had nothing to do with TPUSA, its event, or its student attendees, Ms. Goldberg continues the false tirade against TPUSA, asserting that somehow the organization and its attendees were ‘complicit’ and/or associated with the outside protest."
TPUSA’s letter then demanded that the comments be retracted with an apology no later than July 27.
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