The media’s embarrassing adoration for the porn star who is suing President Trump seemingly has no end in sight, with another shameless display on Friday's The View, where the liberal hosts gushed over Stormy Daniels as some sort of feminist hero.
Co-host Sunny Hostin began by trying to connect the porn star’s lawsuit and accusations against the president to the Russia investigation, citing the unsubstantiated, debunked Steele dossier as her sole evidence:
I will say this and I've said this on the show before. I think this story is bigger than Stormy Daniels ….I think it makes it more plausible that the Russians may have some sort of sexual blackmail on this president, and that perhaps is why he's so complimentary.
Friday fill-in host and weekend GMA co-host Paula Faris wondered what that had to do with Stormy Daniels.
“What does the fact that she seemingly exploited the president -- she tried to sell her story to the network!” Faris asked, perplexed. But Hostin kept citing it as legitimate:
Because if you read the Steele dossier, there were four sources that were consulted that said that President Trump was in a compromising situation with prostitutes that the Russian government set up for him. And let's face it, sexual espionage has been a tool of the Russian government for years and years and years!
The Steele dossier is “completely unsubstantiated at this point,” Faris shot back before questioning why people were “adopting” Daniels as “the champion for the many alleged victims” of the president.
Host Joy Behar explained the left’s reasoning for admiring the porn star. “She's a whistleblower! So to speak,” she replied.
“Oh my gosh. Her icon is a porn star,” co-host Sara Haines teased Behar as the panel laughed.
Faris wondered why Daniels, who is accusing the president of a consensual affair, was being lumped in with the women who accused him of sexual assault. “Do you really believe she is a victim?” she asked.
That’s when the other hosts jumped in to praise Daniels because, “she persisted!”
Guest co-host and faux Republican Ana Navarro gushed how “empowered” Daniels was, because she “refused to be silent”:
ANA NAVARRO: I don’t think she’s trying to portray herself as a victim. certainly don't see her as a victim. I see her as a woman who refuses to be shut up, who refuses to be silent. [audience applause] I see her, frankly, and I think the reason that she's got this appeal is because she is this very empowered woman. I mean, this lady does not give a damn about anything!
While Behar quipped that Daniels was braver than the Republicans in Congress. “She has more testicularty than the entire Republican Congress at the moment!” she praised, as the audience erupted in applause.
