Watching the clip Dave Rubin shared of The View is like watching an establishment bubble breathe its last gasp — the hosts audibly clutch their pearls while missing the real scandal in front of them. Rubin’s Direct Message segment pulled the curtain back: instead of wrestling with a criminal conspiracy that stole from children and taxpayers, Whoopi and Joy drifted into theory and moralizing about political motives. The moment was telling: elite pundits reflexively protect narratives, not facts, when the facts make their allies look bad.
The facts of the Feeding Our Future case are ugly and incontrovertible: federal prosecutors laid out a sprawling scheme that exploited federally funded child nutrition programs during the pandemic, resulting in roughly a quarter-billion dollars in fraudulent claims. Multiple defendants pleaded guilty after documenting how fake invoices, shell companies, and phony meal counts funneled millions away from needy kids into personal real estate and luxury spending. This wasn’t an isolated bookkeeping error — it was an organized, systematic theft of taxpayer dollars meant to feed children.
By now the federal pursuit has produced dozens of convictions and a long list of defendants charged and sentenced, proving investigators have traced the money and brought culprits to justice. The IRS and federal prosecutors have publicly confirmed many guilty pleas and lengthy sentences for those who lined their pockets at the expense of children during a crisis. Taxpayers deserve the full measure of accountability, and law enforcement has been doing hard, slow work to deliver it.
So why did Whoopi and Joy pivot to conspiracy instead of grappling with those convictions? The clip shows a familiar pattern: when the facts hurt a favored constituency, the cultural gatekeepers invent explanations to deflect responsibility. Rather than ask why government oversight failed and who enabled the corruption, they played the victim card for the establishment narrative — a shameful dodge when hardworking Americans are the ones on the hook for stolen funds.
President Trump, for better or worse, pointed directly at the people and places tied to the scandal and vowed tougher enforcement — language that the mainstream immediately labeled as incendiary. He argued the state had been bilked and that the abuses required aggressive action, remarks that prompted a predictable media outcry but also a real debate about enforcement and who protects taxpayers. Trump’s bluntness forces a question too many on television refuse to ask: are political correctness and identity politics protecting criminality?
Democrats and their media allies, including Rep. Ilhan Omar’s defenders, rushed to castigate Trump’s rhetoric instead of demanding answers about program oversight and policy fixes. Predictably, the outrage blurred into defenses of an entire community rather than targeted accountability for the perpetrators and the officials who dropped the ball. Americans of every background deserve protection from fraud, and moral relativism for political allies should have no place in the fight to safeguard children’s welfare.
It’s past time for the media to stop gaslighting the public and start reporting the full story: a massive fraud was exposed, indictments and convictions followed, and taxpayers are owed answers and restitution. Conservatives believe in law and order, honest government, and protecting the vulnerable — those principles mean prosecuting fraudsters regardless of their community and reforming the programs that were abused. If The View and its friends want credibility, they can start by joining the call for real accountability instead of inventing excuses to shield the guilty.
