‘The View’: Joy Behar Gives Trump New Nickname Over Potential $230 Million DOJ Lawsuit
The View cohosts had a lot to say about Donald Trump‘s recent suggestion that he might approve a lawsuit award from the Department of Justice for $230 million over investigations into him and then use the money for his controversial White House ballroom addition. While they all agreed it was an inappropriate exercise of executive power for self-enrichment, some compared his tactic to that of a mob boss, and Joy Behar came up with a new nickname for him as a result of the conversation.
“Let’s call him the “Capo De Tutti Grifter,” she suggested during the conversation, invoking a popular nickname for mafia bosses.
Whoopi Goldberg, too, coined the move a “cash grab” and wondered if the American people would stand for it because, “Your taxes are probably going to be paying for that.”
Behar then pointed out that while Trump has famously claimed to not accept his presidential paychecks, he and his family have reportedly made $3.4 billion since he first took office in 2017. “So, oh, he’s so generous to give his paltry 400 Gs away. What charity is it? The Foundation for the Destruction of America?” she said.
Sara Haines then pointed out that when Trump did donate his first paycheck in office, it was given to the White House Historical Association, which is funding the renovations he’s been making. “So he donated to his own renovation.” She also slammed the “optics” of Trump overseeing a DOJ remuneration to himself.
“He is, according to Forbes, a billionaire. The national debt of this country is $37.9 trillion. The government is shut down. Federal workers aren’t getting paid. They’re lining up at food banks… and he’s grabbing money from the very government he says he’s going to put first, while finding money to give to Argentina,” Haines said.
Sunny Hostin then chimed in to say, “This is giving mob boss. That’s what this is. He’s extorting and looting the federal government.” She then pointed to a story that he reportedly told the president of Indonesia to consult with his son, Eric Trump, “probably about a business deal,” as further evidence of her claim. “How about that $400 million from Qatar, his private plane? How about the fact that if he gets this $230 million, it is going to be used to renovate a White House, which, by the way, he never intends to leave. So that’s what this is. This is about a mob boss extorting the government for his own personal gratitude and enrichment.”
Even Alyssa Farah Griffin, who tends to defend Trump against her fellow panelists on occasion, said of the matter, “It’s not giving ‘America First.’ And I’m honestly just frustrated at this point. I find the whole thing exhausting. I get why people hate politicians. They hate Washington.” She then called Trump’s move “out of touch.”
Goldberg then reiterated how much she despises the renovations, saying, “You see what he’s doing to his own people, the people who voted for him… Does he care about them? I don’t know if he cares about them, but I tell you what I don’t care about: I don’t care about that damn ballroom.”
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I have a suggestion for Trump's $230 million cache, how about providing health care to the American citizens.
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How about the Liberal Dems use the $200 Billion they are Demanding for Illegal Immigrants for Legal American Citizens. Let’s try that. Send the ILLEGAL Immigrants back to their countries of origin Where They Belong. If they want to come back let them follow the Legal process like Millions of Immigrants have and Still are doing.
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Here’s a great nickname for Whoopi and Joy the Capo De Pooty Sisters !! As they fart on each other on the show !! 🤣🤣
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Watching right this second some Liberal Activist saying “ ICE is not the only ones with guns, we need to defend ourselves”. He’s only spewing a bolder version of what Lib Dem Politicians have been saying !! He feels Endorsed by Lib Dem Politicians. If ICE Agents are killed or harmed it goes Directly Back to Many Liberal Dem Politicians. Liberals Are and Have Been pushing hard for Violence and Civil Unrest, and Anarchy. The Lib Dem Politicians only ever so slightly blunt the message but with their followers it’s No Holds Barred. People like Obscene Oops Maxine Waters don’t even Try to blunt it !! She and Crockett, Booker, Talib, Omar, etc. Openly call for Civil War. Careful what they ask for might not want it.
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DEI = Hiring & Promoting people based on Gender, Race, Sexual Orientation, OVER & ABOVE people with Proper Skills, Education, Experience or all three based on those preferences. CRT = Teaching little children all the way through teenagers and even Some colleges to Hate people based on Race. Trans= People “feeling” like they are the opposite sex and because they “feel” that way thus they Are in their insane minds. But in many states and cities Allowing Men to play in Women’s sports AND use Women’s locker rooms & showers. Having Wide Open borders or No borders at all. A Nation without borders is not Really a nation at all but rather just an open territory where Anything goes. Giving away $Billions actually into the $Trillions of so called FREE benefits. A desire to punish Billionaires by placing an extraordinarily high Tax on them which will only cause them to Lay Off employees, close factories & businesses and move to foreign countries ( See Biden Admin) it’s a pipe dream that will not work. These are just a small sampling of what Liberal Dems Support FULLY !! Oh and by their actions they Love Crime there’s a literal scroll of instances that Prove this as true. THESE are the people who have our Govt. Shut Down and Loving It !! Flood Dem politicians with phone calls & emails and Demand they release our govt. from being a hostage for Them !!
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The hypocrisy of MAGA is astounding. They know it and don’t care. Let them pay 40 percent more for their insurance, and pay for Trump’s unnecessary ballroom under his lying pretense that it’s all donated, like the plane we’re spending 10s of millions main and he gets to keep. I wish they would keep me out of it, but unfortunately, I will suffer like they do. Not fair.
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trumpty-dumpty is the grubbiest, grabbiest grifter that ever grifted. This is just another grab for money for him... presidents aren't supposed to engage in any type of business or commerce, but he has all these slimy money-grubbing schemes to rake in the dough, and the red-hat-mafia says NOTHING. And yet they whined a few years ago when Hunter Biden (who never held public office) was selling paintings. Those red-hats are so full of the koolaid that it has literally made them blind to what Disgusting Don is doing.
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President Trump’s Family is running his business while he’s President. Please PROVE Not just Say the things you are Falsely accusing him of. But you were just Fine with Biden being involved in Hunter’s Ukraine business endeavors. And Yes Sleepy Joe got busted being involved with phone calls regarding that. One of the reasons he Pardoned the Entire Biden family along with the nearly 5000 pardons he issued. More pardons than both Bush terms, both Obama terms and So Far both Trump terms COMBINED !! Don’t take my word for that do an internet search. Oh and we’re Still Waiting on the Clintons to Return all the stuff they Took that Didn’t belong to them when They left the WH. So you know there’s that…..
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