The comment came as Sunny Hostin was discussing a statement by former special counsel Jack Smith before the House Judiciary Committee, in which he said there was evidence that Trump had violated the law.
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“If he’s saying he has evidence against the guy and that he broke the law, that he was stockpiling classified documents and so on. Why isn’t Trump in jail?”, Joy Behar asked her co-hosts at the table.
“Because he won the election and 75 million people still voted for him, despite these facts,” Alyssa Farah Griffin shot back.
“But if no one is above the law and even if he won the election, why isn’t he in jail?”, Behar asked again.
Sunny Hostin, in turn, explained that the Department of Justice determines that a sitting president cannot be indicted or prosecuted.
Jack Smith said he found “evidence beyond any reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity” during his investigation into whether Trump interfered in the 2020 election.
“I’ve said this before: I truly believe that the reason President Trump ran again for president was because he wanted to avoid going to jail,” Sunny Hostin accused.
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