Article continues below advertisementWhoopi Goldberg made a bizarre claim that President Donald Trump's military actions in Iran were intended to distract the public from the Jeffrey Epstein files and the case of Nancy Guthrie, the missing 84-year-old mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie.On the Tuesday, March 10, episode of The View, Whoopi stated that the escalation in the Middle East was "meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see anything else," specifically questioning why the national conversation had shifted away from the Epstein files and the Guthrie case.