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Luke Gentile, Social Media Producer


NextImg:The View spends season premiere plotting how to stop Trump from running


The hosts of ABC's The View attempted to put their heads together Tuesday and figure out a way to stop former President Donald Trump from regaining the White House in 2024.

"Ninety-one felony charges, four indictments in various districts, and an array of civil cases. He was twice impeached," co-host Joy Behar reminded her fellow panel members during the season 27 premiere. "So is there anything that we can do to stop this guy from running? Because, obviously, he's a traitor."

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"So, why would he be running for president if he's a traitor?" she asked.

Trump is definitely going to be convicted of something, according to co-host Sunny Hostin, who is also ABC's senior legal correspondent and analyst.

"I've said it all the time: Federal defendants get convicted, like, 97% of the time," Hostin said. "In the Georgia case, he's on tape for one of the charges. So, he's going to get convicted. The larger question is, 'Why is he even allowed to run?'"

"There are conservative legal minds and experts that are saying that, under the 14th Amendment, he is not even allowed to run, even though he hasn't been convicted yet," she said.


Trump would be barred from running under the amendment because he took an oath of office only to take part in an "insurrection" against that country, according to Hostin.

"This has been tested before," she said. "Remember Madison Cawthorn, the one that was getting in trouble for all that stuff? Well, a federal appeals court found he was ineligible to run because he participated in an insurrection, and there was no conviction there."

This legal theory needs to be the focus of those hoping to see the 45th president out of the 2024 race, Hostin said.

Whether or not he is allowed to run, co-host Ana Navarro asked how Republicans could support Trump, given his alleged criminal history.

"Donald Trump is going to be the nominee unless someone takes him to the woodshed on his unfitness in the next six months," co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said.

The primary calendar is flying by, according to Griffin.

"If no one beats him in Iowa and New Hampshire, it is game over," she said.

Griffin appeared to throw some support behind former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, citing her criticism of the GOP on spending hypocrisy and climate change.

"She will not beat Trump by not taking him on," she said. "She would be polling, I bet, 20 points higher if she litigated the case against Donald Trump. If she said he is unfit."

At least 40% of the GOP is looking for someone else, Griffin said.


While Haley was not attacked as that "someone else," entrepreneur and GOP hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy was shown no love.

"What he said was, I think, indefensible," Behar said. "He went against Mike Pence for certifying the election, when Trump told him not to, and there was a whole insurrection going on about it, and then, he said, Vivek said, that he would have done the opposite."

"He's admitting ahead of time that he would have committed a crime," she said.

Ramaswamy is attracting young men through his "bro language," according to Navarro.

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"Ron DeSantis was supposed to be the great non-Trump hope, and he is, right now, 46%, 46 points, beneath Trump, and I think he's, like, on his third or fourth reboot of his campaign. The only person who gets to reinvent themselves that much is Cher," Navarro said.

Notably absent from all discussion was co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who is purportedly battling her most recent case of COVID-19.