Sunny Hostin on Wednesday urged her fellow co-hosts on “The View” to “speak plainly” about President Donald Trump demanding $230 million from the U.S. Division of Justice — for the bills he incurred defending himself towards federal felony investigations.
“I think we need to speak plainly to people, and I think we need to call it what it is: This is giving mob boss,” Hostin mentioned. “Right? That’s what this is. He is extorting and looting the federal government.”
Trump has filed two complaints towards the DOJ: one for its investigation of his 2016 presidential marketing campaign for alleged collusion with Russia to intrude in that election, and one other for looking Mar-a-Lago for labeled paperwork he allegedly mishandled from his first presidential time period.
Trump reportedly mentioned Tuesday he would donate “any money I would get” from the DOJ to charity.
The president is “extorting and looting the federal government that he’s already extorting and looting, because, as you mentioned, since 2017, his family has made $3.4 billion,” Hostin mentioned Wednesday, crediting her co-host Pleasure Behar for mentioning the exorbitant determine earlier.
The president has definitely made a fortune whereas in workplace: The $3.4 billion determine stems from an evaluation printed by The New Yorker in August, which factored in all of Trump’s cryptocurrency ventures, actual property offers and seemingly countless licensing agreements.
Trump himself just lately bragged that he had “raised” greater than $1.5 billion “in various forms” because the 2024 election alone.
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Hostin famous Wednesday that Trump additionally obtained a $400 million luxurious jet from the oil-rich autocracy of Qatar, then granted Qatar a U.S. army protection assure in September.
Hostin, a former federal prosecutor, additionally identified that Trump was caught on a sizzling mic final week telling Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto that he would have his son Eric Trump name him at Subianto’s request. Hostin surmised that the alternate was “probably about a business deal.”
“This is about a mob boss extorting the government for his own personal … gratitude and enrichment,” Hostin fumed.
Not even the “View’s” resident right-winger, Alyssa Farah Griffin — who was within the Trump administration throughout his first time period — may discover a silver lining.
“It’s not giving America First, and I’m honestly just frustrated at this point,” she mentioned. “I find the whole thing exhausting.”
Griffin added about Trump, “You’re using taxpayer dollars to enrich yourself, or maybe you’re giving it to charity or the White House? Focus on the people. It’s never been harder to get ahead than it is right now, and it just feels completely out of touch.”
You possibly can watch the complete alternate beginning on the 5:29 minute mark under.
