Tuesday morning’s The View featured the ABC co-hosts being proponents of several conspiracy theories about former President Trump’s classified documents case, particularly pushing the debunked assertion that he intended to sell them. Alyssa Farah Griffin, the show’s faux “conservative,” also expressed her belief that the judge would have to have been “fundamentally screwing up the case” if Trump got “less than five to ten years” in jail as his penalty.
The segment began with racist Sunny Hostin asking Farah Griffin why she thought that Trump had kept the documents. Hostin’s loaded question included her conjecture that he had kept them because “he thought that he could sell them” or “leverage them” to his own advantage. She hurriedly assured the audience that she was “not saying it,” because she did not “want to get sued,” but she had already betrayed her convictions.
Any allegations that Trump had wanted to sell these documents had already been disproved by a Washington Post Report, which stated that their sources with connections to the federal investigation say the evidence does “not point to any nefarious effort by Trump to leverage, sell or use the government secrets” that were contained in the documents that he had. Despite this proof, the ladies over at The View wanted everyone to know that they thought Trump had intended to sell the documents, because as Joy Behar said, “Well everything about him is making money, so why not?”
Even Farah Griffin pitched in her two cents, wondering aloud about “some of the documents reportedly about the Saudis” and Trump’s “financial interests,” but then quickly stated that she didn’t “want to speculate too much” about the matter. (Too late, Alyssa!) She then raised a question as to his “intent,” saying that “that’s something that needs to be looked into” for the prosecution.
Hostin cut her off to explain that even though the intent would not affect the case, “juries are gonna wanna know, why did he do it?” Here, Behar jumped in to answer that Trump was “a grifter” and that “he’s gonna sell it.”
Farah Griffin then announced that “short of the judge fundamentally screwing up the case,” it wouldn’t be just to give him any “less than five to ten years” in jail. Behar again chimed in with a chant to “lock him up,” even without a fair trial.
Whatever happened to “innocent until proven guilty?”
Hostin continued the support for jail time by claiming that Trump was “ripe for a plea,” which she said “would have to include jail time.” Sara Haines whined that, since a plea would be “admission of guilt,” and since Trump “can’t admit he lost an election,” that he would never stoop to the level of a plea deal.
Whoopi Goldberg also pushed the conspiracy theory that Trump wanted to sell some of the documents, because he had “enough ego” to believe that if he gave the documents to the Saudis and to Putin, that “nobody’ll mess with them anymore.”
She closed her soliloquy by expressing her frustration about Trump’s actions in general:
But, you know, there are a million reasons, and—that we will never know, cause he will never say why he did it, but I'm annoyed that he can continue to do this, and I see people who, you know, were late on their taxes, they end up in—in jail forever. I see people doing stuff, and this guy does—he seems to be able to get away with everything and it's really starting to irritate me.
What about Hunter Biden, who was late on hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes, and isn’t going to be “in jail forever” for it? Or all of his other crimes for which the DOJ has ample (uninvestigated) evidence, and yet he “seems to be able to get away with everything” as well?
Seemed kind of like what she was rooting for was a two-tier justice system after all.
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Transcript of the segment below (click Expand):
ABC’s The View
06/27/23
11:06:44 AM ET
SUNNY HOSTIN: …I keep on asking this question, why do you think he took those particular documents? Because he returned 197 documents. He was not charged with that. If you return them, you don't get charged. It's just simple.
SARA HAINES: Maybe they were the juiciest, like, they had the most stuff in them.
HOSTIN: I think—I do—allegedly, is it possible that he thought that he could sell them? That he thought he could leverage them?
JOY BEHAR: Well everything about him is making money, so why not?
HOSTIN: Exactly, like what—I’m not saying it, everybody…
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: No I know…
HOSTIN: I don't want to get sued.
FARAH GRIFFIN: But to be honest, I’ve wondered that with some of the documents reportedly about the Saudis, as well, because he obviously has financial interests…
HOSTIN: Yes.
FARAH GRIFFIN: …and like the golf tour. I don't want to speculate too much. But that is, I think, what this prosecution is going to have to go into, is…
HOSTIN: Yeah.
FARAH GRIFFIN: …he's already broken enough laws, whether there’s intent, and, you know, and in trying to undermine our new—our U.S. National Security behind it, but I mean that's something that needs to be looked into—
HOSTIN: What’s the why? What's the why?
JOY BEHAR: Well they don’t know that.
HOSTIN: You never have to prove the why to prove this case. You don't have to prove intent. But juries are gonna wanna know, why did he do it?
BEHAR: It’s cause he's a grifter. He's a grifter. He’s gonna sell it.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I mean, short of this judge fundamentally screwing up the case, I don't see how he gets less than five to ten years. He literally, in this one clip—
BEHAR: Lock him up already. Lock him up.
FARAH GRIFFIN: —admits the info—he knows the info—
BEHAR: Lock him up. Enough. Enough.
[APPLAUSE]
FARAH GRIFFIN: He admits he knows the information’s classified. He discusses the contents of classified information with people without security clearances and then acknowledges he can't declassify since he's not president. That’s the whole case.
HOSTIN: It's—it’s a cut-and-dry case. He has no defense, which is why I said a couple weeks ago, he is ripe for a plea. And I think I asked you this a couple weeks ago. Will—is he someone who would take a plea? But that plea would have to include jail time.
HAINES: Well the plea would also ad—be admission of guilt. He can't admit he lost an election, he’s not coming forward for a plea.
[CROSSTALK]
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well, you know, this is—
HOSTIN: He has no defense.
GOLDBERG: —this is a man who—who has a lot of ego, also.
BEHAR: Oh, major.
GOLDBERG: And he has a lo—enough ego to think, you know what, maybe I'll just, I’ll get this over to the Saudis, I can give it to them and nobody’ll mess with them anymore. Maybe I can take these and just give these over to Putin, and they won’t mess with—I’m not saying that's what he did.
But, you know, there are a million reasons, and—that we will never know, cause he will never say why he did it, but I'm annoyed that he can continue to do this, and I see people who, you know, were late on their taxes, they end up in—in jail forever. I see people doing stuff, and this guy does—he seems to be able to get away with everything and it's really starting to irritate me.
