“The View” star Sunny Hostin wants to eliminate penalty checks from job applications

The view Co-host and legal expert Sunny Hostin has already begun drafting a reform plan after Donald Trump won a second term as president.

In the hours after Trump triumphed over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, the 56-year-old said she was “deeply disturbed” by Trump's victory, citing the former apprentice The host's criminal past will be used as a platform to advocate for easier access to employment for formerly incarcerated citizens.

“I think in 2016 we didn’t know what we were going to get from a Trump administration, but now we do. We know now that he will have almost unlimited power,” Hostin said from the Hot Topics table Wednesday morning. “Actually, I'm not worried about myself, I'm not worried about my position in life. I'm worried about the working class, I'm worried about my mother, a retired teacher. I worry about our elderly and their Social Security and Medicare. I I am worried about the future of my children, who now have fewer rights than me.

She added that she was also dismayed that “the 14th Amendment did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming president of the United States overnight.”

“I think that in the future it should be better to remove the box for convicted criminals on applications. Because if you can be president of the United States, you should not be prevented from working in this country,” Hostin emphasized. “Because I remember applying for my job as a federal prosecutor and there was a box for convicted felons. It’s better to take this box down.”

Trump made history in the election not only by becoming the first president in modern times to be elected to a non-consecutive term, but also as the first president-elect previously convicted of crimes.

In May, Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts in a hush-money trial involving porn actress Stormy Daniels – a development view Host Whoopi Goldberg celebrated by repeating the word “guilty” several times in a row while looking into the talk show camera.

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Continue somewhere else The viewHostin's co-host Joy Behar vowed to support the country's democratic process even if she didn't like the results.

“My conclusion is that the system works. We live in a democracy. The people have spoken. That's what people wanted. I vehemently disagree with the decision that the Americans have made. But I'm very, very hopeful that we have a democratic system here.” “We should value it, we should love it, we should protest when the situation arises where we have to protest – and I'm sure that “This will be the case,” said the 82-year-old. “It was very difficult, but boy oh boy, do we have a country if we can keep it?”

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