‘The View’ Laughs Off Donald Trump’s “Family Man Defense” in Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case: “Big Stretch”

The ladies of The View couldn’t help but laugh while discussing the potential criminal charges that could be coming Donald Trump‘s way “any day now.” The co-hosts scoffed at the former president’s attempt to save face after one of his lawyers made the rounds in a series of TV interviews, claiming that “people have the wrong idea about why he paid the hush money to Stormy Daniels.”

Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina recently told George Stephanopoulos that the businessman — who denies having an affair with the adult film star — paid the hush money “to prevent something coming out — false — but embarrassing to himself, his family, his young son.”

When the camera panned back to the Hot Topics table, the group broke out into laughter, with Sunny Hostin calling his excuse “creative.”

“The ‘family man’ defense for Donald Trump — that’s a nice stretch. That’s a pretty big stretch,” she added of what has become known as the “Melania Defense” — in which Trump allegedly paid the hush money from his “personal funds” so that it wouldn’t upset his wife.

The audience clapped as Hostin speculated, “I don’t think Melania wants anything to do with the man.”

Meanwhile, Alyssa Farah Griffin said she “doesn’t get” why Trump’s attorneys are partaking in interviews with famed journalists like Stephanopoulos and Ari Melber. She then noted Tacopina got his “backside handed to him” by Melber.

“This is not going to work in your favor … You’re losing your case by going on TV,” she pointed out, before Joy Behar quipped, “He was sweating like a pig.”

Still perplexed by Trump’s claim, Hostin asked, “How do you argue that Trump cares so much about his family that he’s a family man?” while a smiley, sarcastic Behar noted, “There’s something so touching about it, isn’t there?”

Whoopi Goldberg closed out the segment by reminding the audience, “The people who still believe that he got  gy—d somehow in the election will still believe he cared enough about his wife to pay that money from his personal [funds].”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.