On 'The View,' Hostin Butchers Key Dates Related to Cohen Guilty Plea, Implies Trump is a Traitor

During Thursday's edition of The View, the panel discussed former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's guilty plea for lying to Congress about some dates regarding conversations about a proposed Trump Tower in Moscow.  When attempting to lay out the facts of the case, co-host Sunny Hostin butchered two key dates, she claimed that Cohen said "everything ended when Trump became President in January of 2016." While Cohen did say that in his testimony to Congress, President Trump did not become President until January of 2017.  Hostin continued: "now we know those conversations continued through July 2017." Cohen now says that the conversations continued into July 2016 but Hostin's error, either deliberately or accidentally implied that Trump planned to build a Trump Tower in Moscow after he became President; enabling her to essentially compare President Trump to a traitor: "If these negotiations were going on while he was President, it's precisely what the framers of our Constitution wrote in to protect the American people against because we want to make sure that this President, any President, is not putting his self-interest before the interest of the country." Co-host Joy Behar asked Hostin, "is there a smoking gun here?" Hostin replied: "I think so."