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The View clash ignites as Sunny shuts Alyssa down over Trump indictment: 'I'll tell you why you're wrong'

Sunny Hostin challenged the former Trump associate's legal perspective and Alyssa Farah Griffin rolled her eyes during the debate.

By Joey NolfiApril 05, 2023 at 12:23 PM EDT

Sunny Hostin shut down conservative cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin after the former Donald Trump associate inadvertently challenged her legal perspective Wednesday on The View.
During an impassioned Hot Topics discussion about the former president's indictment on 34 felony charges related to alleged hush money reportedly paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels, Griffin — who previously worked under the Trump administration's communications team — shot down the notion that Trump would go to jail over the ordeal.
"Yesterday was a bad day for Donald Trump, the first indicted former president. I want to see this guy held accountable, [but] this case is not taking Donald Trump down," Griffin said, while Hostin, an attorney who holds a law degree from Notre Dame, quickly asked, "How do you know that?"

After Griffin stated that "there was no conspiracy charge," Hostin jumped in by noting that it "was a hard charge to prove." Griffin continued, however.

Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin debate Donald Trump indictment on 'The View'

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"The felony charges, the max sentence is four years, but this is a first-time offender, it's a non-violent crime, it's a Class E felony, every legal expert I've talked to is [saying this is] most likely a fine and probation — if he's even convicted," she said.
Without missing a beat, Hostin pointed to herself and firmly stated, "I'll tell you why you're wrong: this legal expert."

The View set fell silent as a lone audience member could be heard yelling "oop!" after Hostin made the assertion.
"I'll tell you why you're wrong. Prosecutors are not only in the business of prosecuting crimes, we're in the business of sending out a message," Hostin elaborated. "If you let the president of the United States be found guilty of one to 34 counts, even if they're misdemeanors, and he gets to go home scott-free, you're sending a message to the country. That's not going to happen."


Alyssa Farah Griffin rolls her eyes on 'The View.'

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Griffin attempted to expand on her thought before moderator Whoopi Goldberg jumped in. Griffin tried to say something else, but rolled her eyes and trailed off after Goldberg didn't yield.
On Tuesday's episode, Griffin speculated on how her former boss was handling his legal battle.
"There's been a bunch of reporting out there that Trump is loving this," Griffin said. "I know him well enough to know that he's not loving this, he's spiraling, he's somebody who, despite his terrible actions, does think about legacy of how he's perceived. And now, his life, whether it's his obituary, is going to say he was indicted, the first American president to be. Right now, his team is freaking out over a potential gag order from the judge, which would prevent him from being able to speak about what happened. And that's what he wants, he wants to go out and frame this his own way and spin the public."
The View continues weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC.
 

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Right now, his team is freaking out over a potential gag order from the judge, which would prevent him from being able to speak about what happened. And that's what he wants, he wants to go out and frame this his own way and spin the public."

He knows the people that support him are too stupid to fact check anything. He's been fleecing them for millions, so why stop the grift now. I felt no sympathy when those supporters got robbed by the repeat donation button on the website. A guy had his social security saving raped by those donations. I wish he went to get his medicine and he didn't have enough money, and he died right there in the pharmacy.
 

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Jane Rosenberg’s “Courtroom Sketch, Manhattan Criminal Courthouse”
Truth is stranger than fiction: for the first time in its long history, The New Yorker is publishing a courtroom sketch on the cover.
By Françoise Mouly
Art by Jane Rosenberg
April 5, 2023



Though we often ask artists to reflect on the events of the day for the weekly cover, the magazine has not, until now, turned to a courtroom sketch artist, whose job it is to depict what a scene looks like when cameras are forbidden in federal criminal proceedings. Jane Rosenberg, the artist behind the cover for the April 17, 2023, issue, was one of three approved sketch artists in the courtroom on the fifteenth floor of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, on April 4, 2023, when the former President Donald Trump was arraigned on thirty-four felony charges of falsifying business records. “I have been doing this job for some forty-three years, but this was my most stressful assignment yet,” Rosenberg told me. Trump pleaded “not guilty” (two of the nine words that he spoke during the nearly hour-long proceeding) and looked, as Eric Lach reported from the courtroom, rather glum—an expression Rosenberg endeavored to capture.


Trump was the harbinger of his own indictment before it was officially announced last Thursday, using its impending actuality to hone his “craft of masking self-pity as social injustice,” as Jelani Cobb noted yesterday. Trump repeatedly called the charges a “witch hunt,” accused the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who is Black, of being a “racist in reverse,” and warned of “potential death and destruction” were he to be indicted. During the arraignment, after prosecutors complained about his inflammatory remarks on social media, Judge Juan Merchan instructed the former President to refrain from making further statements that were likely to incite violence.
John Cassidy covered the details of the sixteen-page indictment, in which Trump was officially accused of conspiring to defraud American voters. Many of the charges stem from payments that he made to his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen—reimbursements for the hush money Cohen paid, just before the 2016 election, to Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had an affair with Trump.

The arraignment itself struck some, as Susan Glasser observed, as a somewhat underwhelming—albeit unprecedented—dénouement to the past week’s saga of speculation; others saw it as something more akin to a momentous apex. Either way, it seems unlikely that there will be a trial before 2024, and the New York case marks only the beginning of what will likely be a steady stream of hearings, pretrial motions, and other potential indictments that promise to unfold in tandem with Trump’s third bid for the Presidency. At the very least, his protracted indictment has proved to be, as Clare Malone wrote, “an early test of whether the media has learned any lessons about how to healthily metabolize a Trump news cycle.” The jury’s still out on that, too.
 

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Webster Barnaby, a onetime Deltona city commissioner, gave an opening prayer in which he called the news media "a den of vipers" from which emanates "the stench of evil." Barnaby also prayed for Jesus to intervene and turn heads "toward Donald J. Trump and the Grand Old Party," and not "the evils" of the Democrats.
 

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