The View co-hosts Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin analyzed on Wednesday whether the extensive media coverage of former President Donald Trump‘s $250 million civil trial in New York was helping or hurting his 2024 presidential campaign.
“I think these trials are affecting how much Donald Trump can actually engage in campaigning. Yesterday he was being told he’s broke and dealing with the fraud cases. He was completely tapped out of the Kevin McCarthy drama. He didn’t come to the defense of ‘my Kevin.’ He didn’t call Matt Gaetz or anything,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said.
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Co-host Sara Haines lamented how the trial was helping his campaign.
“We’re all talking about him. They had cameras on the courthouse to see if he walks his little buns in there — big buns, sorry,” she said with a laugh.
Haines added, “But point being, we’re not talking about potential options because we hear these polls all the time. No one else is going to get it, but we’re not talking about them. We’re also doing it right now, but every news network is watching Donald Trump. He dominates the airwaves, and then he uses that as his campaign.”
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The hosts went on to discuss the judge’s decision to impose a gag order preventing any verbal attacks by Trump against court staff.
“Judges protect their clerks at all costs,” co-host Sunny Hostin said. “For him to — Trump to imply she was having an affair with Chuck Schumer, so he was disparaging her. He took it very seriously. I suspect the gag order that Jack Smith has asked for — I suspect the other gag orders will be put in place. I don’t know what that man is going to do if he can’t talk.”
