‘The View’ Fawns Over Flake for Stalling ‘Potential Monster’ Kavanaugh

ABC News’ “The View” co-hosts lavished praise upon Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) Monday for practically forcing the GOP-led Senate and President Donald Trump into accepting a new one-week FBI investigation of sexual assault allegations against “potential monster” Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh prior to his final confirmation vote.

“On Friday, Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation was thrown a curveball after two sexual assault survivors confronted Sen. Jeff Flake in an elevator,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg (pictured above left) said as she began the segment. “So these two women perhaps changed the course of history or slowed it down for a minute.”

Flake, the key 11th GOP vote on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, cut a deal with Democrats to delay the full Senate’s final vote on Kavanaugh, pending an FBI investigation of the sexual assault allegations against him. Flake made the deal after two female liberal activists cornered him on an elevator just before the committee’s vote Friday.

“The View” co-hosts discussed the fallout from Flake’s fateful elevator ride the same day conservative co-host Meghan McCain announced she will return to the show October 8. McCain has been on leave since her father, former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), died from cancer in August.

“You can get away in the stairs. You can run up or down. He was stuck in that elevator, and they got him.”

“You know what’s scary, to think that none of this would have happened if Jeff Flake had taken the stairs. I’m serious. It’s like, he happened to be in an elevator,” co-host Joy Behar (above center) said. “You can get away in the stairs. You can run up or down. He was stuck in that elevator, and they got him.”

Co-host Sunny Hostin (above right) chimed in by expressing her gratitude for how Flake “was forced to listen” to the women on the elevator and how that “did change the course of history.”

“But what was also fascinating further on in that [CBS News’ “60 Minutes”] interview, [Flake] says, but had I not been — had I been up for re-election, I would never have done this, I would never have asked for a pause in the investigation.”

Flake admitted during the interview that if he had been running for re-election in 2018, there was no “chance” that he would have made the deal to delay Kavanaugh’s final confirmation.

“He said if he were running for re-election, as you said, he said there’s no value to reaching across the aisle, there’s no currency for that anymore,” Goldberg said. “So here’s my response to that, as you’ve been saying, as we’ve been saying, as many people have been saying, this is not political. Sexual assault is not political. So the currency is looking out for the women. That’s your currency.”

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Even Abby Huntsman, presently the talk show’s lone conservative co-host until McCain returns next week, praised Flake’s deal as a “blessing for this country.”

Although Goldberg lauded Flake for working with Democrats who tried to tank Kavanaugh’s nomination even before the 11th-hour sexual assault allegations became public, she frowned upon Flake’s insistence that he would not have made the deal if he had been up for re-election.

“That should give everybody pause. Because the idea that you would let a potential monster sit on the Supreme Court because you wanted to get re-elected tells us we have some issues here,” Goldberg warned.