The View used the Epstein files to attack Trump nonstop.
Hosts demanded accountability for everything in them.
But Whoopi Goldberg had to make one humiliating confession about the Epstein files on air.
She Was the One Who Went to Epstein First
An email sitting inside the Epstein files reveals what Whoopi Goldberg spent two weeks hoping nobody would find.
In 2013, someone contacted Jeffrey Epstein on Goldberg's behalf and asked to borrow his private Gulfstream G2 jet to fly her to Monaco for a charity event.
Then they sweetened the deal – offering Epstein a personal guest spot at the event in exchange for the plane.
Someone reached out to a convicted sex offender on Goldberg's behalf and offered him something in return for a favor.
Epstein turned them down, misspelling his own reply: "no thnaks."
NewsBusters dug that email out of the DOJ document release on February 4th – finding Goldberg's name appearing 21 times across the files – and published it for the world to see.
For two solid weeks, Whoopi said nothing.
She kept right on hammering Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for his Epstein connections and demanding powerful people "explain their associations."
Nobody on The View mentioned that a former employee's resume – listing Goldberg as a personal reference – was also sitting in those same files.
Not one word – until this morning, when she finally had to answer for it.
The Joke She's Hiding Behind
Goldberg's defense was a punchline.
Co-host Sara Haines quipped "you were too old for him," and Whoopi grabbed it like a lifeline: "I was not only too old, but it was at a time, you know, where this is just not – you used to have to have facts before you said stuff."
That's the sleight of hand.
Laugh at the "too old" line, forget about the jet request and the guest spot offer.
She told the audience "I wasn't his girlfriend, I wasn't his friend" – and fumed that "people actually believe that I was with him. It's like, honey, come on. Every man that I've ever been with, you know about it because the Inquirer wrote about it."
Nobody accused Whoopi Goldberg of being Epstein's girlfriend.
The accusation – backed by documents she didn't dispute – is that someone on her behalf contacted a convicted sex offender, asked him for a private jet, and offered him a guest spot in return.
That's the story she's joking her way around.
When Joy Behar jumped in with "Trump is on the list 38,000 times," Goldberg replied: "I can't speak to him, but I'm speaking about me because I'm getting dragged."
She's getting dragged because she spent two weeks dragging everyone else.
The View's Accountability Only Goes One Direction
Four out of six current View co-hosts are named in the Epstein files – Goldberg 21 times, Alyssa Farah Griffin 20 times, Joy Behar three times, Ana Navarro twice.
The two co-hosts with zero appearances – Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin – were the ones most loudly demanding accountability from people named in the files.
Haines said it herself: "No amount of status should soften abuse. No system should protect the powerful over victims."
The View ran the same play every single morning – use the Epstein files to beat Trump and Republicans, then go dead silent the moment those same documents point back at their own table.
Whoopi Goldberg didn't stumble into these files because her name got swept up in some passing reference.
Someone on her behalf went to Jeffrey Epstein, asked him for a personal favor, and offered him something in return.
The "too old" joke is designed to make viewers forget that.
Whoopi Goldberg thought the Epstein files would be the downfall of Donald Trump.
But they confirmed how sleazy and opportunistic the washed up comedian is.
Sources:
- Nicholas Fondacaro, "Hypocrisy: Whoopi's Epstein Ties Ignored as The View Harps on Files," NewsBusters, February 11, 2026.
- Nicholas Fondacaro, "Whoopi Goldberg and Other Members of 'The View' Are Mentioned in the Epstein Files," NewsBusters, February 4, 2026.
- Charlie Nash, "Whoopi Goldberg Fumes About 'Getting Dragged' For Being in the Epstein Files," Mediaite, February 17, 2026.
- "Whoopi Goldberg Explains Why Her Name Is in the Epstein Files," TV Insider, February 17, 2026.
- "'The View': Whoopi Goldberg Explains Why She's in Jeffrey Epstein Files Live On-Air," Daily Wire, February 17, 2026.