The co-hosts of "The View" think Donald Trump "is going down."
Speaking about the indictment on the morning before the former President was set to be arraigned, Whoopi Goldberg introduced a clip of Republican responses to it, showing members clamoring for excuses.
"I don't know. Is it a good picture to have boxes in a garage that opens up all the time? A bathroom door locks," Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) claimed as a reason Trump was hiding boxes in a bathroom. The co-hosts noted bathroom doors lock from the inside, not the outside.
Some other Republicans dodged giving responses, saying that they hadn't read the legal filing.
Former Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin chimed in with her fellow hosts, saying that she is sad for the country.
"It's good that justice is catching up with the former president's wrongdoing; there's no question about that," she continued. "Nearly half of this country believes the lies they were fed, first about the 2020 election, and now about the fact that this is some kind of witch-hunt because the Department of Justice has been weaponized, and Donald Trump didn't do anything wrong. That indictment — I read all 46 pages. It's clear as day. You don't need to be an attorney to understand it. It lays out things that he did."
Sara Haines cited some of the Republicans, like former Govs. Chris Christie (R-NJ) and Asa Hutchinson (R-AR), who have been willing to speak out against Trump.
"It's low-hanging fruit to the Republicans. That's why I don't understand why Nikki Haley and Tim Scott didn't come out" with stronger language, Sara Haines explained. "It's a federal indictment. It's clear when you read it when you see what the charges are. [President Joe] Biden is still under investigation by a Trump-appointed special counsel. Anybody that thinks this is being politicized, they've taken steps to make sure there's due process in all of this. I'll commend for Chris Christie saying this is ridiculous, and we should blame him, not the Department of Justice."
Joy Behar was curious what she meant by "low-hanging fruit?"
"Meaning he was indicted criminally, with 34 counts, they don't even have to prove in court! Holding the documents, he's guilty," Haines said. Though they actually do still need to be proven in court, she was suggesting the court filings give a convincing case.
"He was indicted in New York with 34 counts. He'll be indicted, I predict, in Georgia. Again, as I mentioned, federal prosecutors don't lose their cases. They lose less than 2% of them. He's going down," said Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor.
The audience let out a loud applause.
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