{"id":2240364,"date":"2024-05-08T17:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T21:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whoopi-goldberg-on-trump-trial-if-you-didnt-do-it-why-are-you-in-the-court\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T17:42:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T21:42:27","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-on-trump-trial-if-you-didnt-do-it-why-are-you-in-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whoopi-goldberg-on-trump-trial-if-you-didnt-do-it-why-are-you-in-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg questions Trump trial: &#8220;If innocent, why in court?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhoopi-goldberg-on-trump-trial-if-you-didnt-do-it-why-are-you-in-the-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2240364&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The View <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-hispanic-voters-in-florida-who-fled-dictatorships-think-the-election-was-stolen-from-trump\/\" title=\"REPORT: Hispanic Voters In Florida Who Fled Dictatorships Think The Election Was Stolen From Trump\">hosts<\/a> stood by Stormy Daniels as \u2064a \u2064credible\u200b individual and scrutinized ex-President Donald Trump&#8217;s court rebuttals.\u200c The \u200bdebate encompassed a payment portrayed as a \u200dcover-up,\u200c purportedly disguised as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-employees-at-kim-kardashians-60-million-home-file-lawsuit-against-her\/\" title=\"Former Employees At Kim Kardashian\u2019s  Million Home File Lawsuit Against Her\">business expense<\/a> surpassing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-the-bidens-got-rich-while-americans-got-robbed\/\" title=\"Donald Trump: 'The Bidens Got Rich While Americans Got Robbed'\">campaign<\/a> \u200bfinance limitations. Co-host Sunny Hostin highlighted the complexity of the case, emphasizing the importance of credibility in the trial. The hosts of The View supported Stormy Daniels as a trustworthy figure and examined ex-President Donald Trump&#8217;s legal defenses. They \u2064delved into a payment presented as \u200da concealment tactic, allegedly masked as a business cost exceeding campaign finance boundaries. Co-host Sunny Hostin underscored the case&#8217;s intricacies, stressing the pivotal role\u200c of trustworthiness during the trial.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/the-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The View\">The View<\/a> <\/em>hosts defended porn star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/stormy-daniels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Stormy Daniels\">Stormy Daniels<\/a> as a \u201cbelievable person\u201d and questioned former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s denials in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about the fact that they paid her as a cover-up and then they used, sort of \u2014 they pretended it was a business expense and it was over the campaign contribution amount,\u201d co-host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/sunny-hostin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Sunny Hostin\">Sunny Hostin<\/a> explained on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cIt\u2019s actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-tim-scott-says-democrats-voting-bill-would-actually-make-it-easier-to-cheat-and-harder-to-vote\/\" title=\"Sen. Tim Scott Says Democrats\u2019 Voting Bill \u2018Would Actually Make It Easier To Cheat And Harder To Vote\u2019\">campaign finance fraud<\/a>, but since he denied having sex with her, the prosecution now has to put her up on the witness stand to explain that they did have sex, that she was paid off, and that she was paid off so that it would not affect his campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hostin said that the trial has become about \u201chis word against his word.\u201d She said it\u2019s all about credibility for the jury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why Trump\u2019s lawyers were hammering her and hammering her and hammering her, but, you know, if you listen to some of the reporters in the courtroom, she seemed pretty believable. She seemed pretty credible,\u201d Hostin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if you\u2019re a jury \u2014 she\u2019s showed to have lied on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jimmy Kimme\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a><\/em>. It hurt her credibility, but she is a believable person,\u201d co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>Hostin was encouraged by the prosecution\u2019s efforts in the Trump trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they\u2019ve done is framed the falsified documents as concealing a broader conspiracy to protect Trump\u2019s campaign, and that \u2014 in that framing, they are hitting it out of the park,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems if they\u2019re building this case that shows all of the stuff that he\u2019s done, it\u2019s kind of a real case to say, OK, you shouldn\u2019t be president, because these are \u2014 it\u2019s not just \u2014 we\u2019re talking about one thing at a time,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/whoopi-goldberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Whoopi Goldberg\">Whoopi Goldberg<\/a> said. \u201cBut I think what they\u2019ve managed to do that they hadn\u2019t managed to do anywhere else is build this sort of arc of lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hostin jumped in, \u201cA pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, you know what he says. He always says he didn\u2019t do it. You know, I just think if you didn\u2019t do it, why are you in the court?\u201d Goldberg asked.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cNobody did this. You did this. You took stuff. This is on you. This isn\u2019t them. It isn\u2019t the judge. This is yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their comments follow a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcexaminer\/status\/1787950539709251923\/video\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\" segment on Tuesday's show\"> segment on Tuesday\u2019s show<\/a> where they contemplated which prison Trump should be sent to. Trump\u2019s campaign manager responded on Wednesday, saying <em>The View<\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/2996578\/trump-press-secretary-calls-the-view-hosts-wildly-out-of-touch-for-wanting-him-in-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'wildly out of touch'\">\u201cwildly out of touch\u201d<\/a> with the public.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hosts of The View supported Stormy Daniels, citing her credibility, and challenged Donald Trump&#8217;s court denials. They highlighted the payment made to her as a cover-up, allegedly disguised as a business expense exceeding campaign contribution limits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2678,"featured_media":2240365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/the-view7.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/the-view7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}