Staten Island officials accuse Whoopi Goldberg of defaming Holtermann’s Bakery

Whoopi Goldberg was publically accused of defamation connected Friday, 2 days aft the “The View” co-host suggested a bakery didn’t privation to marque her day desserts owed to her left-leaning governmental views.

Goldberg celebrated her 69th day connected “The View” this week, wherever she told viewers her bid for respective twelve Charlotte Russe cakes was initially refused. Though Goldberg didn’t place the bakery successful question, galore viewers rapidly figured retired she was referring to Holtermann’s Bakery connected Staten Island, acknowledgment to the saccharine treat’s chiseled packaging.

On Thursday, proprietor Jill Holtermann — whose household operates the 146-year-old bakery successful Great Kills — confirmed she was the idiosyncratic Goldberg called out. She denied refusing the pre-order due to the fact that of politics, and alternatively said she rejected it owed to instrumentality issues.

At a press league connected Friday, Holtermann was joined by Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella, who alleged Goldberg “besmirched and defamed” Holtermann’s Bakery, causing an “unwarranted controversy.” The Republican demanded she contented a nationalist apology for “making worldly up to suit [her] needs.”

According to Goldberg, she was told the bakery couldn’t grant her 50-unit bid due to the fact that of occupation with their boiler. But erstwhile aides were sent to prime up the cakes successful person, they had nary problem, starring Goldberg to judge the bakery “did not similar my politics.”

Fossella backed Holtermann’s assertion that the cook store didn’t instrumentality Goldberg’s pre-order due to the fact that they weren’t definite erstwhile the room would beryllium up and moving effectively. Goldberg and her co-hosts finished Wednesday’s amusement by eating the bakery’s signature cakes that yet did get made.

Staten Island Councilman David Carr besides took to the mic astatine the property conference, saying they were gathered “to nonstop a connection to the idiosyncratic who decided she was excessively important for a boiler breakdown.”

“She had to person her pastries and if it wasn’t coming to her, it indispensable person been idiosyncratic else’s fault. It indispensable person been a directed insult to her,” helium said.

He aboriginal slammed the co-hosts of “The View” successful a station connected Facebook.

“Shame connected the members of ‘The View’ for slandering a Staten Island instauration with an exceptional estimation spanning implicit a century,” helium wrote. “I’m arrogant to support Holtermann’s Bakery and immoderate Staten Island concern from baseless governmental accusations.”

Holtermann connected Friday thanked each those who showed their enactment astatine the property conference, arsenic good arsenic those who reached retired aft connection dispersed that she and her squad were the alleged culprits successful the greeting amusement drama.

“I’ve seen however hard my household has worked to support this concern live and I privation my begetter was present contiguous to spot this,” she emotionally said.

If Holtermann’s Facebook leafage is immoderate denotation of the enactment the bakery has received successful the aftermath of the controversy, business is booming.

“I heard astir this connected Fox News,” wrote 1 idiosyncratic saying they’re from North Carolina. “I privation to bid immoderate pastries. Do you ship?”

Similar responses came from California, Arizona and Pennsylvania.