Author hits back at Sunny Hostin after fiery 'View' interview: 'She had no idea what she was talking about'

Author Coleman Hughes said "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin had "no idea what she was talking about," after the author joined the co-hosts for a fiery interview about his new book, which advocates for a "colorblind" America.

Hughes talked to journalist Matt Taibbi and elaborated on the clash between him and Hostin, one of the liberal hosts, during which she accused him of being used as a "pawn" by the right.

"I know [Hostin] said that I identified as a conservative, which was surprising to me because unless I blacked out, I don’t remember that. She was very confident about it. I almost gaslighted myself. I thought, ‘Did I forget something I said on a podcast?'" Hughes said. "It turns out she was just, almost everything she said — she had no idea what she was talking about."

Hughes, the author of "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America," joined the co-hosts of "The View" to discuss the book, which he said argues that everyone should try their very best to "treat people without regard to race."

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"Your argument for colorblindness, I think it’s something that the right has co-opted, and so many in the Black community, if I’m being honest with you, because I want to be, believed that you are being used as a pawn by the right and that you are charlatan of sorts," Hostin said during the interview.

"I don’t think I’ve been co-opted by anyone. I’ve only voted twice — both for Democrats. I’m an independent," Coleman responded at the time. "I would vote for a Republican — probably a non-Trump Republican if they were compelling. I don’t think there’s any evidence I’ve been co-opted by anyone and I think that’s