Whoopi Goldberg didn’t let a little play-off music stop her from finishing her impassioned thoughts on the state of current affairs in the United States on Monday’s episode of The View. The cohosts had some hotter-than-usual “Hot Topics” to start the show with — chiefly, the history-making beginning of the first criminal trial against Donald Trump in New York, who stands accused of crimes associated with a hush-money payment to an adult film star. The cohosts each presented their perspectives on the matter of Trump’s trial, largely agreeing that it is an “unprecedented” and “shameful” situation. They ran into some friction, however, when they got to the second segment of the discussion about New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s pledge to support Trump, even if he’s convicted on all of the dozens of crimes he is accused of in his four separate cases. Alyssa Farah Griffin, for one,...