Meghan McCain is considering legal action against ‘The View’ for defamation

Meghan McCain is not happy with her former The view cohosts after her departure.

“I don’t understand why my former colleagues @TheView @ABC bring up and vilify me almost weekly,” McCain, 39, wrote via X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday, December 14. “It’s been years – move on, I have.”

Earlier that day, the panel talked about the morning talk show – which consists of Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines And Alyssa Farah Griffin – were discussing President Joe Biden‘s son Hunter and his decision not to comply with a subpoena to testify in a closed hearing about his foreign companies. (Hunter, 53, previously stated that he would prefer an open court hearing.)

Navarro, 51, spoke out about the news and came to Hunter’s defense while shading other children of political figures.

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“Look, did Hunter Biden influence his last name? Yes he did. So did half of Washington,” Navarro claimed. “The people sitting at this table did it!”

The view The panel looked at each other, trying to figure out who Navarro was talking about. She later clarified that she didn’t mean “currently” at the table, but that she wasn’t naming a specific person. McCain, the daughter of the late Senator John McCain, assumed the excavation was done at her expense. (Meghan appeared as a cohost on the series from 2017 to 2021.)

“I have never been accused of a crime in my life and am a patriotic American – I would never have ‘exerted influence’ in my life, let alone foreign adversaries,” she continued in her tweet. “Not all politicians’ children are the same – and I’m no Hunter Biden.

Meghan denounced Navarro’s alleged allegations, calling them “slanderous and defamatory.”

“I will consult my lawyers about what has been defamed against me The view this morning,” she wrote.

In a follow-up responseMeghan added that as a “former ABC News employee” she does not “take it lightly” when she is accused of “criminal conduct.”

After she leaves The view, Meghan has often been candid about her conflicted feelings about her time on the show. In October 2021, she claimed she left the show due to the “toxic work environment.”

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“My view on the problems of The view being that it’s a show with a lot of demons that started in the beginning, and none of those demons have been exorcised,” she shared Variety at the time.

Two years after her initial departure, the former Fox News employee shared that she no longer tuned into her previous program.

“It’s like looking at an ex-boyfriend’s Instagram: it’s just not great for you. So no, I’m not watching,” she joked The messenger in October.