On Tuesday’s edition of The View, ABC’s staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) proved once again why she’s a former federal prosecutor. Speaking about the upcoming hush-money trial against former President Trump, Hostin proclaimed that she feared the impartial jury would be infiltrated by a Trump supporter who would “lie” by telling the court the contradictory statement: “I hate Trump. But I can be impartial.”
Hostin admitted she was “excited” for the trial, calling it “a legal nerd's Super Bowl.” When faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin noted “They haven’t even picked a juror,” Hostin boasted about the jurors who said they couldn’t be impartial: “But that's exciting to someone like me because 50 people said ‘I can't even be impartial,’ which I admire them for their forthrightness and their honesty because you have to be honest when you're a juror.”
But while claiming she “still believe[d] they will be able to find an impartial jury,” Hostin contradicted herself by adding: “They’re never going to find that.” She then went on to hype how the legal teams were going to comb through the social media accounts of prospective jurors for signs they support Trump:
They are never going to find someone that doesn't know about the former twice-impeached loser president. Right? They're never going to find that.
But what I did find also interesting about my Super Bowl that the legal teams will be checking the jurors’ social media profiles to see if they can access the truthfulness and intention of what they said during voir dire, which is their questioning.
“And I think that’s really, really important because, if you start liking Trump, you follow Trump stuff on social media, are you going to -- can you be impartial? I don't think so,” she declared without a consideration to keeping Trump haters off of the jury.
In fact, her fear was that a Trump supporter would “sneak onto that jury” by lying about hating Trump:
HOSTIN: You get one person that sneaks onto that jury with untoward feelings, that person can hang that jury.
BEHAR: How do you sneak onto a jury? You have to be called to a jury.
HOSTIN: Well, you lie. You lie. You say, “I hate Trump. But I can be impartial. And I this and that.”
BEHAR: I see.
HOSTIN: And then, all of a sudden, that’s the person who won’t vote to convict.
While she’s worried someone biased in Trump’s favor would be allowed on the jury, she was blinded by her unhinged hatred for him to think a prospective juror announcing “I hate Trump” was the impartial position.
“Where are they going to find a jury of his peers, how many bloated orange psychos are out there?” so-called comedian Joy Behar quipped. “Yeah. It’s going to be tough,” Hostin agreed.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
April 16, 2024
11:04:40 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: Oh, it’s just beginning.
SUNNY HOSTIN: I'm not trumped out at all.
SARA HAINES: I’m so Trumped out.
HOSTIN: This is a legal nerd's Super Bowl. Right? Like, I'm kind of excited about this.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: They haven’t even picked a juror.
HOSTIN: But that's exciting to someone like me because 50 people said “I can't even be impartial,” which I admire them for their forthrightness and their honesty because you have to be honest when you're a juror. But I still believe they will be able to find an impartial jury. They are never going to find someone that doesn't know about the former twice impeached loser president. Right?
BEHAR: Yeah.
HOSTIN: They're never going to find that.
But what I did find also interesting about my Super Bowl that the legal teams will be checking the jurors’ social media profiles to see if they can access the truthfulness and intention of what they said during voir dire, which is their questioning.
And I think that’s really, really important because, if you start liking Trump, you follow Trump stuff on social media, are you going to -- can you be impartial? I don't think so. And I think what could happen in a case like this, if you have someone – and we were talking about it this morning, someone named Clay Travis sort of telling people to get onto that jury. You get one person that sneaks onto that jury with untoward feelings, that person can hang that jury.
BEHAR: How do you sneak onto a jury? You have to be called to a jury.
HOSTIN: Well, you lie. You lie. You say, “I hate Trump. But I can be impartial. And I this and that”
BEHAR: I see.
HOSTIN: And then, all of a sudden, that’s the person who won’t vote to convict.
BEHAR: Where are they going to find a jury of his peers, how many bloated orange psychos are out there?
HOSTIN: Yeah. It’s going to be tough.
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