As of the Thursday edition of ABC’s The View, purported “comedian” Joy Behar was still having issues coming to terms with the result of the 2024 presidential election. So much so, that she resorted to retreating to their happy place: imaging President Trump in prison. And the fact that he wasn’t resulted in Behar suggesting it was “unfair” and un-American.
Meanwhile, fake Republican Ana Navarro was blaming Trump for an 11-year-old girl in Taxes committing suicide.
“I ask you, Sunny, did winning the election save him from going to prison?” Behar asked co-host Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor. “Oh yes, absolutely,” she proclaimed despite the fact that other experts were predicting that he would be either be under house arrest or wouldn’t serve time at all.
Behar began to suggest Trump would have just pardoned himself from the New York convictions, but Hostin reassured her he couldn’t pardon himself from state crimes. Hostin then proceeded to lament Special Counsel Jack Smith dropping his cases:
BEHAR: Well, he could have pardoned himself.
HOSTIN: He could have tried to pardon – not for state. Not for state. Even the president can’t do that. But I will say, I mean, his sentencing was coming up and then he won and it all went away and he had three other cases that were pending. Jack Smith had to drop them because he was going to fire jack Smith anyway. So, jack Smith dropped them, who was the federal prosecutor responsible for really the election interference case on January 6th. Those were, I thought, very meaty and robust cases and he avoided it all.
“But that doesn’t sound fair to me,” Behar whined as she turned to faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin. “That doesn’t sound American to me, Alyssa. If the person gets all the charges dropped just because he win election, is that American?”
Farah Griffin noted that he likely wouldn’t have gone to prison because of all the logistical problems of having Secret Service protection. “I could argue that the precedent of imprisoning a president of the United States and sentencing them when they’re a sitting president would be dangerous and complicated to do or even have Secret Service with him in jail,” she explained.
Behar also seemed to suggest that Trump being a Republican had something to do with him not being in prison, despite the Biden administration’s best attempts:
HOSTIN: It’s DOJ policy not to indict or imprison a sitting president.
BEHAR: What if it was a Democrat?
FARAH GRIFFIN: I would feel the same way.
HOSTIN: It’s still DOJ policy. It is still DOJ policy.
Later in the segment, Navarro blamed Trump for the suicide death of a little girl and suggested – without evidence – that he was trying to distract America from it.
“So that we don’t talk about Jocelyn Carranza, the 11-year-old girl in Texas who died by suicide because she was being bullied at her school, 11 years old,” she shouted. “She was being bullied by being told that her parents were going to be taken away by ICE. She was being terrorized by others. We need to create safe spaces for the children of immigrants, for the immigrant children so that they can go to school without being the victims of this kind of terror.”
The transcript is below. Click „expand“ to read:
ABC’s The ViewFebruary 20, 202511:03:35 a.m. Eastern
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JOY BEHAR: I ask you, Sunny, did winning the election save him from going to prison?
SUNNY HOSTIN: Oh yes, absolutely.
Behar: Oh, Yeah?
HOSTIN: He was convicted of 34 counts here in New York. There is no power – a pardon power for a state conviction, and there is for a federal conviction.
BEHAR: Well, he could have pardoned himself.
HOSTIN: He could have tried to pardon – not for state. Not for state. Even the president can’t do that.
But I will say, I mean, his sentencing was coming up and then he won and it all went away and he had three other cases that were pending. Jack Smith had to drop them because he was going to fire jack Smith anyway. So, jack Smith dropped them, who was the federal prosecutor responsible for really the election interference case on January 6th. Those were, I thought, very meaty and robust cases and he avoided it all. And now he is –
BEHAR: But that doesn’t sound fair to me. That doesn’t sound American to me, Alyssa. If the person gets all the charges dropped just because he win election, is that American?
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I could argue that the precedent of imprisoning a president of the United States and sentencing them when they’re a sitting president would be dangerous and complicated to do or even have Secret Service with him in jail. I mean, there’s a lot of things — it would be completely unprecedented.
HOSTIN: It’s DOJ policy not to indict or imprison a sitting president.
BEHAR: What if it was a Democrat?
FARAH GRIFFIN: I would feel the same way.
HOSTIN: It’s still DOJ policy. It is still DOJ policy.
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11:06:40 a.m. Eastern
ANA NAVARRO: So that we don’t talk about the price of eggs that is through the roof, that he 4 promised to slash on day one! So that we don’t talk about Jocelyn Carranza, the 11-year-old girl in Texas who died by suicide because she was being bullied at her school, 11 years old. She was being bullied by being told that her parents were going to be taken away by ICE. She was being terrorized by others. We need to create safe spaces for the children of immigrants, for the immigrant children so that they can go to school without being the victims of this kind of terror. And I am going to continue talking about Jocelyn. That’s what this is about Jocelyn Carranza. That’s what this is about.
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