The view cohost and legal expert Sunny Hostin has already started to map out a reform plan after Donald Trump won a second presidential term.

In the hours after Trump triumphed against Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, the 56-year-old said she was “deeply disturbed” by Trump’s victory. Student the host’s criminal track record as a platform to advocate for easier access to employment for formerly incarcerated citizens.

“I don’t think in 2016 we knew what we would get from a Trump administration, but we know that now. We now know that he will have virtually unlimited power,” Hostin said from the Hot Topics table on Wednesday morning. “I don’t actually worry about myself, I don’t worry about my position in life. I worry about the working class, I worry about my mother, a retired teacher. I worry about our elderly and their social security and health care. I worry about the future of my children, I worry about my daughter, who now has fewer rights than me.”

She added that she is also baffled that the “Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming President of the United States overnight.”

“I think in the future it would be better to remove the list of convicted criminals from job 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 when I was applying for my job as a federal prosecutor, and there was a box for convicted felons. That box had better be removed.”

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

In May, Trump was found guilty of 34 crimes in a hush-money trial against porn actress Stormy Daniels – a development Display moderator Whoopi Goldberg celebrated this at the time by repeating the word “guilty” several times in a row while looking into the talk show’s camera.

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Elsewhere on The viewHostin’s cohost, Joy Behar, pledged to support the country’s democratic process even though she didn’t like the results.

“My conclusion is that the system works. We live in a democracy. People spoke. This is what people wanted. I strongly disagree with the decision that Americans made. But I am very hopeful that we can achieve a have a democratic system.” We have to appreciate it, we have to love it, we have to protest if the situation arises that we have to protest – and I am sure it will happen,” the 82-year-old said. “It’s been very difficult, but boy, boy, do we have a country if we can keep it.”

The view airs weekdays at 11am ET/10am PT on ABC.