Tensions had been excessive throughout Friday’s episode of The View, leading to a swift finish to the co-hosts’ interview with GOP candidate Kim Klacik.

As seen within the video beneath (with a barely longer model here), Klacik, the present Republican nominee for Maryland’s seventh congressional district, had simply completed addressing the coronavirus pandemic when the interview turned heated. Klacik asserted that President Bill Clinton’s administration had been accountable for sending biotech and manufacturing jobs abroad years in the past, leading to an absence of preparedness to deal with the pandemic within the United States this yr.

Co-host Joy Behar then identified that President Trump recently admitted to withholding information from the American public relating to the severity of the coronavirus. (“I wished to at all times play it down. I nonetheless like enjoying it down, as a result of I don’t need to create a panic,” Trump advised journalist Bob Woodward, in keeping with audio recorded for Woodward’s new e book, Rage.)

“You need to put some blame in your president, I’m sorry,” Behar mentioned. “You’re placing it on one thing extraneous right here. Speak to the purpose, please. The man lied.”

But in Klacik’s response, she known as Behar “the identical Joy that paraded round in blackface not too way back,” referencing a 2016 episode of The View through which Behar confirmed an outdated Halloween photograph of her “stunning African lady” costume from that yr. (At the time, Behar admitted to sporting “make-up that was just a little bit darker than my pores and skin” for the get-up.)

As Behar insisted to Klacik that her Halloween costume had been “an homage,” including that “the Black group had my again,” co-host Sunny Hostin jumped in to remind Klacik that the Black group didn’t vote for her in April’s particular election in opposition to Democrat Kweisi Mfume. “What planet are you dwelling on?” Hostin repeatedly requested Klacik, turning her chair away from the digicam.

Behar in the end wrapped the interview early, prompting Klacik to reply, “That was very immature, however thanks for having me.”

Watch the change from Friday’s broadcast beneath:

A panel on @TheView turns chaotic following an change with host Joy Behar and GOP candidate Kim Klacik:

Klacik: “Is this Joy talking? The similar Joy that paraded round in blackface not too way back?”

Behar: “It was homage.”pic.twitter.com/bpPqr6JVGl

— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) September 18, 2020