The View’s Whoopi whacks Abby Huntsman for whining about Kavanaugh: ‘This isn’t about both sides -- it’s about women’

"The View" co-host Abby Huntsman excused President Donald Trump's mockery of Christine Blasey Ford -- cheered on by a crowd of supporters -- by complaining that Brett Kavanaugh had been called a rapist on television, but her colleagues wouldn't let her get away with it.

Huntsman believes the president attacked Ford because Republicans are expressing support for Kavanaugh's confirmation, even if he's guilty of attempted rape.

"He knows exactly who he is speaking to," she said. "I saw a recent poll that shows 54 percent of Republicans said they would support Kavanaugh even if it turned out the sexual assault allegations against him are true, and so you know that he's probably getting this information and he knows that audience and you saw their reaction. They were cheering that on."

Huntsman said the president would be better off staying silent about Ford, but she said Kavanaugh appeared headed toward confirmation despite the allegations against him.

"Democrats running in red states where the majority want Kavanaugh to be confirmed, they're in a position where if they want to win they're likely going to have to vote for Kavanaugh," she said. "That's politics today, shocking, which is the world we're all living in."

Host Whoopi Goldberg said Trump had victimized Ford again, noting the California professor testified that Kavanaugh and his friend laughing was the most searing memory of her alleged sexual assault.

"You know, people have always voted in their political interests, but this idea that says to half the population, it doesn't matter if this happened to you and as a matter of fact we're going to laugh at it," Goldberg said.

"Go ahead and keep pouring salt into this wound because women may shock you," she added. "Remember what happened in Alabama. Everybody said, 'Oh, yes, we're going with Roy Moore, we believe in him' -- and what happened?"

Co-host Joy Behar said the president had politically divided men and women, but Huntsman said the media was also to blame.

"Isn't it awful to call Kavanaugh a gang rapist and monster and evil person -- he's been called every name in the book," Huntsman said, and Behar challenged her to identify who described him that way. "I think a Democratic Senator called him evil or a monster. I think he's been called a gang rapist, I hear it all over the place."

Behar called her out again: "You need to source that if that's going to be an accusation."

"I think there's things thrown from both sides if you turn on the TV," Huntsman said.

That's when Goldberg jumped back in.

"This is not about both sides, this is about women and all this stuff that we have been dealing with," Goldberg said. "You're talking about, you know, whether it's your choice or my choice, whether it's sexual assault, if, in fact, we are saying -- we spent years saying, listen, we want to make sure we're putting somebody away it's the right person. That's why we've been encouraging women to come out as soon as they're able to do it."

Co-host Sunny Hostin quoted a 15-year-old she'd recently interviewed, who said the accusations against Kavanaugh dating from his own teenage years absolutely mattered.

"She said, 'It's a lifetime appointment, that means his entire life should be reviewed,'" Hostin said.