The View hosts were critical on Tuesday of several high-profile Republicans who defended former President Donald Trump over what they said would be a politically motivated prosecution.
After rolling footage of the responses from 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Whoopi Goldberg asked, "Why can’t they quit him?"
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Haley recently called the possible indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg a "political prosecution" which would be "more about revenge than it is about justice."
Similarly, DeSantis claimed that Bragg is "ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction" and if he makes the decision to arrest Trump, "that is an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office, and I think that is fundamentally wrong."
Graham echoed both of the Republicans, saying that "this is a bunch of BS."
In response to the politicians, Goldberg told them to "keep all of that in mind as we listen to them go after the Bidens. Let’s just keep all of that in mind how it’s political and all that stuff. Either we all go, or none of us go."
"They can’t quit him," former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed.
"Watching that clip, I want to be, like, Nikki, you’re running against him. What are you doing?" she said.
"Herein lies the problem with my party in this moment is when Trump is cornered, he grows emboldened, and for whatever reason, everybody circles around him and defends him," Griffin claimed.
She then said that sources "semi-close to Trump" have told her that "He is very nervous over this. He does think an arrest is coming."
"But he also thinks it’s an opportunity to kind of get the base to rally around him and elected republicans who feel like they are indebted to him," she added.
Joy Behar chimed in that "they're not so indebted as they’re worried that they can’t get the base without him."
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Sunny Hostin reiterated her claim that Trump wants to physically be arrested and "perp-walked" so he appears as "a martyr to his party."
Goldberg then applied Republican claims of a political prosecution to investigations into President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden. According to her, if congressional Republicans want to investigate Hunter Biden's laptop and possible crimes, they need to be OK with a Trump arrest.