For nearly this entire year, Sunny Hostin of The View has urged Democrats to obey their “constitutional duty” to impeach President Trump. She was pushing this back in March, months before the Democrats’ supposed smoking gun, the Ukraine phone call, was even known.Yet the co-host and ABC legal analyst was eager to abandon the Constitution after the House voted to impeach President Trump yesterday.
On Thursday’s show, the co-host touted lefty Constitutional scholar, Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe saying Democrats should withhold sending the impeachment articles to the Senate, since no sitting president has been convicted by the Senate during an impeachment trial. Hostin touted this left-wing fever dream as a way to punish Trump by denying him his constitutional right to an acquittal in the Senate:
That's a permanent stain on this record, but no president in history -- this is only the third time someone has been impeached in history. No president has ever been convicted and acquitted, ever. So I wonder where we go from here, especially because you have had people like McConnell saying, you know, there's not going to be a real trial here. There's always going to be an acquittal, and Laurence Tribe, who’s a professor at Harvard he’s the preeminent constitutional scholar. He wrote the book. When you go to law school, you study American constitutional law by Laurence Tribe. He's been the ultimate author that everyone quotes for the past -- just since 1950, and he says there shouldn't be a Senate trial. You don't go to trial at all. You hold the impeachment articles in the House, and it's just forever a stain because we know the fix is in now. I think that's the smart way to go here because we know that everyone’s minds have been made up. So why do anything else?
For all the huffing and puffing Hostin has done about Democrats being faithful to the Constitution, she seems eager to abandon it when it’s politically convenient for the left. A trial in the Senate is required by the Constitution to impeach a president, (even if it ends up backfiring for Democrats.)
Here are a few other times this year Hostin has argued Democrats had to impeach Trump, regardless the reason:
On March 12, Hostin bristled at Pelosi dismissing impeachment: “I think that the House has to do its job. Regardless if it doesn't go anywhere.”
On May 31, Hostin demanded Democrats start the impeachment process after the Mueller reporter revealed no collusion: “I think it sets a very dangerous precedent if you don't at least start the impeachment inquiry because no one is above the law!” she argued, adding, “Maybe we need to rebrand the word impeachment and call it what it is, which is a criminal investigation and perhaps Donald Trump needs to prove to us that he is not a criminal and needs to defend himself.”
On September 25, Hostin urged impeachment, saying it would unite the country: “I think it will unite this country when Americans like during Watergate watch what this president has been up to lining his own pockets for the good of himself and his family against what’s good for this country.”
Just one month after Trump was elected, Hostin desperately tried to delegitimize the election and force Trump out of office even before his inaugural, citing the Constitution as giving a "way out."
