(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The hosts of 'The View' give a master class in how to mock Trump and turn him into a laughingstock [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-01 Goldberg kicked off the segment by observing with a laugh: “For years, I have mentioned that you-know-who was just playing at being a real estate tycoon on his competition show 'The Apprentice.' Well ..." The show then cut to clips from “The Celebrity Apprentice” with Trump in full glory as the supposed master of the universe real estate tycoon, with the theme music to his reality TV show playing in the background, much to the amusement of the hosts and studio audience. And then this dialogue ensues: Behar : “What a loser he is!” Goldberg: “The judge ruled that he committed fraud by inflating the value of his assets by billions of dollars. Now he stands to lose control of his real estate properties as well. Will this finally pull back the curtain on the man? Beha: “Wait till Melania finds out he’s worth 800 bucks. Oh yeah!” Sunny Hostin: “That’s just all he’s paid in taxes.” Touche! Hostin, ABC News’ legal analyst, then said: “:I wouldn’t say it’s pulling the curtain entirely back, but we’re peaking in now. … Letitia James, kudos to her. (photo of the New York Attorney General displayed in background). She was not playing. She started investigating him in 2019. She agreed with you (Whoopi). Something just doesn’t look right or smell right or feel right. “And what this judge ruled was that he committed this financial fraud by overstating his assets by like 2.2 billion dollars ... in order to broker deals and get more financing for it. And so he cheated people.” And then Behar asked the panel’s legal expert to explain the judge’s ruling “so that I understand it and that Eric Trump can understand it.”. So Hostin explained Judge Arthur Engoron’s ruling in easy to understand layman’s terms. She said the judge took away his business certificates so Trump, Don Jr. and Eric can’t run companies in the state any more, which means “we’re not going to see any more Trump buildings in New York.” She then said the civil trial, brought by James wasn’t likely to run very long because of what the judge has already ruled. Hostin, reading from a copy of Engoron’s ruling, quoted this excerpt: “The defenses Donald Trump attempted to articulate in his sworn deposition are wholly without basis in law or fact.” She noted that the judge also imposed $7,500 sanctions against Trump’s lawyers. The civil trial, scheduled to begin Monday, is a bench trial rather than a jury trial. That means Engoron alone will determine how much Trump and his companies will be penalized for the fraud. James is seeking $250 million in damages. The case could result in Trump having to liquidate some of his famous New York properties, including Trump Tower. Potential witnesses include Trump, his adult children, and top executives in his companies. Hostin described Engoron’s pre-trial ruling as “a win across the board for the prosecution” which rarely happens in state court. “I just think at this point that it’s 250 million dollars that he’s probably going to be out because that’s what they’re asking for and I just hope the Trump supporters don’t give it back to him.” And then it was the turn of Alyssa Farah Griffin, the show’s conservative co-host, to dig the knife deeper into Trump. Griffin stepped down from her post as White House communications director in December 2020. Immediately after Jan. 6, she condemned her former boss. She has since testified to the House Jan. 6 Select Committee and federal prosecutors. Griffin began by recalling a comment Goldberg had made to her about how New Yorkers always knew that Trump was “a fraud and a charlatan and con man.” In the 2016 presidential election, Trump received only 10 percent of the vote in his home New York County (Manhattan). Griffin said: "This is how crazy it is. He inflated the value of Mar-a-Lago, his club down in Florida, by 2,300%. That would be like me saying my two-bedroom apartment is a multi-floor penthouse and then trying to get a line of credit off of it. It’s insanity.An average person would be in jail for doing it. “Here's the thing, because I do know the man decently well. He thinks that being a loser or being poor or struggling financially those are the absolute worst things. He never learned that playground lesson we did, that winning isn't everything. I honestly think potentially seeing the sign on Trump Tower taken off Fifth Avenue would be more devastating to him than sitting in a prison cell because it says unequivocally he is a loser in the place he always wanted to make it." Co-host Sara Haines then called Trump “a caricature” of a real estate tycoon . She said Trump could get away with saying anything at a rally and get people to believe it without being penalized, but when you are filling out official documents or are in a court of law “that will actually go against you.” “And right now watching him being called to task on this is kind of a little humorous,” Haines added. And then Behar hit Trump even harder. She recalled how Trump just couldn’t handle anyone questioning how wealthy he actually is or making fun of him. 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