Furious Meghan McCain slams her former The View co-hosts after they imply that she unlawfully used her famous last name for professional or financial gain
- Meghan McCain threatened legal action against The View hosts after comments made during their show on Thursday
- The daughter of Arizona Sen. John McCain took issue with being compared to Hunter Biden by former colleague Ana Navarro
- McCain denied she ever 'exercised influence' and said: 'Not all politicians, children are the same'
Meghan McCain has criticized her former colleagues on The View after they suggested she was unlawfully trading under her famous surname.
The pundit, the daughter of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, threatened legal action after the hosts made a comparison between her and Hunter Biden.
“I don't understand why my former colleagues bring up and slander me almost every week,” the columnist wrote in a message on X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday. “It's been years – move on, I did.
“I have never been accused of a crime in my life and am a patriotic American – I would never have exercised 'influence' in my life, let alone foreign adversaries.”
McCain was responding to comments made by her former co-host Ana Navarro during a segment on Hunter Biden's federal tax case and its impact on his father, President Joe Biden.
Meghan McCain threatened legal action against her former colleagues on The View after it was suggested she had been trading under her famous surname.
Host Ana Navarro suggested a link between embattled Hunter Biden and McCain, saying previous members of The View panel 'picked influence'
McCain is the daughter of the late Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona. She claimed she was never charged with a crime and would never 'influence the trade'
Navarro said on the show Thursday that Hunter Biden isn't the only person in Washington who “has influence over his last name,” adding, “People who sat at this table did it.”
This prompted co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin to ask who Navarro was referring to, before clarifying that she had been talking about previous hosts. McCain appeared on The View between 2017 and 2021.
Griffin added, “We just wanted to clear our names,” while her colleague Sara Haines joked, “Oh my God! Do I have a claim to fame that I'm not using?'
McCain responded to All allegations are absurd, defamatory and libelous.
She followed the post with another that read, “The View is an ABC News program. “I do not take it lightly when a news program suggests that I am engaging in criminal behavior, especially as a former employee of ABC News.”
During the show, Navarro claimed that Joe Biden's only crime was being “Hunter Biden's very loving father.”
His son is currently embroiled in a federal tax case in which he is accused of spending millions on an “extravagant lifestyle” while not paying taxes for years.
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McCain previously wrote that Biden would have to “kiss your 2024 dreams goodbye” if he supported Hunter in the wake of the allegations.
Within her own family, McCain has consistently jumped to her father's defense after disparaging comments from former President Donald Trump, including in 2015 when he suggested the senator was “not a war hero.”
The barbs continued even after the senator's death in 2018, with McCain and Trump engaged in a vicious back-and-forth.
Recently, McCain told the former president to “grow up” after mentioning her father in one of his campaign ads.