WATCH: Joy Behar blasts Trump, says ‘he manipulated everybody’ with claims of arrest
Julia Johnson
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The View bashed former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, claiming he lied about a potential indictment and arrest for allegedly paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
“He manipulated everybody. We all rose to the occasion — the papers — everybody just went there,” Joy Behar said.
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Over the weekend, the former president claimed on Truth Social that he would be arrested on Tuesday and asked his supporters to protest. However, Tuesday passed and Trump was not indicted, nor was he arrested.
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“He hasn’t been arrested like he predicted,” Sunny Hostin acknowledged.
The hosts then agreed that they should not take Trump at his word.
“You kind of have to weigh it with all the other stuff he’s said,” Whoopi Goldberg explained. “And you figure, well, you know, you said you won the election. You didn’t win. You said they are coming to arrest you. They didn’t arrest you.”
“Why would we start believing him now?” Sara Haines asked.
“So many people excited,” Hostin lamented.
Behar slammed the former president, claiming, “He is a liar.”
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“Are you shocked?” Goldberg asked of her co-host.
On Wednesday, the Manhattan grand jury’s meeting was called off. District Attorney Alvin Bragg did, however, tell the members that they should be on standby for Thursday.