On Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” co-host Sunny Hostin claimed that President Donald Trump may have defamed criminals arrested by ICE after he held up their mugshots during a press conference Tuesday.
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On Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” Hostin said she found it “distasteful and disgusting” that Trump held up pictures of mostly “Black and Brown people,” calling them “predators… rapists and murderers.”
She argued that “there is no data” confirming that any of the people whose mugshots were shown were actually criminals, and that “if you look at whatever data that we have, 70% of the people that ICE has detained don’t have criminal convictions.”
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin during the ABC show on Sept. 29, 2025. (Screenshot/ABC)
“I’ll tell you, if he defamed somebody, they better sue the President of the United States,” Hostin suggested. “Or they better sue somebody.”
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Earlier in the segment, co-host Sara Haines argued that Trump displayed the mugshots “in the name of ICE and all the seizures,” but that there was a better way to show Americans that his administration is tough on crime.
“You know what everyone could get on board with when you have a negative 38 approval rating on — is the friggin’ Epstein files,” Haines asserted. “You have bipartisan support, and it feels like with every dodge he’s missing the fact that there are actual criminals among us, and they happen to be [Trump’s] friends.”
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President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago club, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, in Palm Beach, Fla. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
The White House did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
On Tuesday, the same day Trump presented the mugshots of the alleged criminals, he also called on ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do more to highlight the arrests of illegal immigrants with criminal records.
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“Show the numbers, names, and faces of the violent criminals, and show them NOW,” he added. “The people will start supporting the patriots of ICE, instead of the highly paid troublemakers, anarchists, and agitators! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conduct an arrest in Chicago, Illinois, on Jan. 26, 2025. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement/Handout via REUTERS)
DHS regularly announces the arrests of illegal immigrants and will often publish the alleged offenders’ names, mugshots and criminal histories.
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