On Monday, March 22, The View co-host acknowledged she previously supported President Donald Trump referring to COVID-19 as the "China virus," but now she sees the error in her ways.

According to NBC News, there has been a 150 percent increase in hate crimes targeting Asian people since 2019. The founder and director of demographic data and policy research for the nonprofit AAPI Data, Karthick Ramakrishnan, told NBC News that the steep increase in hate crimes cannot be exclusively attributed to Trump's racist rhetoric, but he believes it was a factor. 

Ramakrishnan explained, "Trump's rhetoric helps set a certain narrative in place—and presidents have an outsized role in terms of shaping the narrative. They don't call it a bully pulpit for nothing, and especially Trump, the way he frequently used Twitter as well as press conferences and off-the-cuff remarks to campaign rallies to frame the narrative in a particular way, it likely played a role."

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