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"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin was alarmed by Donald Trump's enthusiastic public embrace of the jailed Jan. 6 rioters.

The former president stood at attention, hand on heart, as his rally opened with a song called “Justice for All” performed by a choir of jailed insurrectionists and footage from the U.S. Capitol riot played on large screens at the event in Waco, Texas, as the group sang the national anthem and Trump recited the Pledge of Allegiance.

"The View" host Whoopi Goldberg questioned whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) had a chance to become president, and the audience laughed and jeered.

The show's producers rolled video from the governor's interview with Fox Nation host Piers Morgan, and then Goldberg opened the topic for discussion by asking about his chances in the 2024 election — which elicited guffaws from the studio audience.

"The View" co-host Ana Navarro called out Donald Trump for using the threat of violence to try to wriggle out of criminal charges.

The former president called for supporters to "take our country back" in a Truth Social post about his possible arrest, and Navarro said Trump was essentially using extortion tactics to avoid an indictment in the Stormy Daniels hush money case under investigation by the Manhattan district attorney's office.

"The View" panelists cracked up at the defense offered by Donald Trump's attorney in the alleged hush-money payoff scheme involving Stormy Daniels.

Manhattan prosecutors appear to be closing in on the former president's payment to the porn actress ahead of the 2016 election, but defense attorney Joe Tacopina insisted the money was completely unrelated to his presidential campaign and was instead made to protect his wife from rumors of his affair.

Donald Trump famously warned that Hillary Clinton could drag the country into uncharted waters if she was elected president, but now those words may come back to haunt him.

The ex-president claimed on the campaign trail in 2016 that Clinton could be indicted and even face a criminal trial as president, and "The View" audience burst into laughter when that clip was played during a discussion of Trump's own potentially pending indictment on charges related to his hush money payoff to porn actress Stormy Daniels.

"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin thinks Donald Trump's grip on the Republican Party might be loosening.

The former president delivered a vengeful speech before a sparse crowd at this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference, and his former White House director of strategic Communications wondered if he might have already peaked politically.

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin wrote off the Republican Party as a policy-free grievance caucus after watching this week's Conservative Political Action Conference.

Many Republicans skipped this year's event in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp, and Hostin said only the fringiest elements of the GOP were left.

"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin worked for Donald Trump, and she's "genuinely afraid" of him serving a second term as president.

Griffin served as White House director of strategic communications under the former president, and she told her co-hosts that Trump would likely spend his next term exacting revenge from all his enemies if he made it back into power.

"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin believes she might hold a key piece of evidence in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News.

The election voting machine maker has sued Fox News for $1.5 billion for promoting lies about Donald Trump's election loss, and network chairman Rupert Murdoch conceded in a deposition that he knew some of those claims were false and that he should have done more to stop them.

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin wondered if House speaker Kevin McCarthy handed over a trove of Capitol surveillance video footage to Tucker Carlson as part of the concessions he made to win his leadership battle.

The California Republican gave the Fox News host exclusive access to 41,000 hours of footage recorded during the Jan. 6 insurrection, and Hostin's suspicions were raised by the fact that McCarthy didn't give access to the material to any other news outlet.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's call for a "national divorce" alarmed panelists on "The View."

The Georgia congresswoman said red states and blue states should break apart into separate countries, and co-host Sunny Hostin wondered how much she knew about the last time that happened.

"The View" host Whoopi Goldberg bashed Nikki Haley for apparently sleeping through Donald Trump's presidency.

The former South Carolina governor threw her name into the 2024 presidential race with an ad suggesting that efforts to root out racism were attacking America's founding principles, and Goldberg criticized Haley for ignoring her own record for the last eight years.

The Super Bowl will be broadcast this year on Fox, and "The View" co-hosts debated whether President Joe Biden should take part in the traditional pregame interview with the network's conservative news hosts.

Barack Obama sat down with then-Fox News host Bill O'Reilly before the 2014 game and endured questions about controversies about the Obamacare website, Benghazi and the IRS. "The View" panelists were split over whether Biden should put himself in the same position.