The View’s Joy Behar accuses Melania Trump of lying about pro-abortion stance: ‘It’s a big scam’

The View hosts are not convinced by Melania Trump’s support for abortion rights put forth in the former First Lady’s new memoir.

Melania, 54, the wife of former president Donald Trump, made headlines this week after an excerpt from her forthcoming book was published by The Guardian.

“Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body?” she writes in Melania. “A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes.”

Her pro-choice stance stands in stark contrast to her husband’s history of dismantling abortion protections. On The View on Thursday, co-host Joy Behar suggested it was all “a big scam.”

“62 percent of Americans oppose overthrowing Roe v Wade – 62 percent – the Republican Party knows this. I think they put her up to this,” Behar said on the ABC talk show. “I think it’s a big scam. They put her out there, you know, as the face of, like, the American population that wants to have abortion rights.

“I think that this is just a big lie,” she said. “I don’t buy it.”

Behar’s co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed that it was a “strategic” move, going even further to suggest that she thinks it was also made to increase book sales.

“Who was gonna buy this book outside of MAGA diehards?” Griffin said. “But now it’s buzzy, now we’re talking about it because she’s putting stuff out there that’s more interesting.”

Sunny Hostin jumped in with a more extreme speculation, saying: “I think she hates him. That’s a given. I also think that she wants to take him out. She does not want to be the first lady anymore. She doesn’t want to be the first lady.

“She destroyed the Rose Garden,” Hostin added,