ABC’s The View was having abang up day on Tuesday. In addition to co-host Sunny Hostin bragging about being a holdout juror who kelp a killer cannibal out of prison, co-host Sara Haines grew emotional as she whined about Patrick Clancy divorcing his wife, Lindsay Clancy after she strangled their three children to death. Haines couldn’t understand at what point his “marital love” ended.
Haines’ hysterics began with her noting that so many other people in Lindsay’s life were there in the courtroom for her but Patrick wasn’t:
Over and over people showed up for her in that trial, her mother, both mothers, her mother, her mother-in-law, her sister, her best friend, and all of them also grieve the ultimate loss of these three children. But, they were able to see this woman they loved sitting there and know that they had that she had taken the lives of these babies. This is her husband.
The View's Sara Haines says she can't understand WHEN Patrick Clancy's "marital love" for Lindsey ended and WHY he wanted to get a divorce. She hopes her husband Max wouldn't leave her if she killed their kids:
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“They were able to see her as a sick woman who, and even though they too were mourning the loss of their grandbabies and their nieces and nephews,” she bemoaned.
Haines was bewildered by how Patrick’s “marital love [could] end so quickly” and was willing to leave the woman who killed his three children:
What bothers me is he talks about forgiving her, which I love, but he focuses on that and never jumps to what so many people struggle with. How did the marital love end so quickly when you admit openly your, your wife got sick, she got sick. It doesn't mean you can be with them and it doesn't mean it doesn't remind you of the worst day of your life. But, I would hope in like ‘in sickness and in health,’ he said everyone was worried about her. They were tragically, their arms were around her as she was going down the drain.
Growing more emotional, Haines shared her hope that her husband Max Shifrin wouldn’t leave her if she strangled their kids with exercise bands. “I would hope that my husband wouldn't sit there and just move right along and like not care,” she said.
Sara, his marital love ended when he was screaming and crying on the phone with 9-1-1 as he was removing the exercise bands Lindsay put around the necks of his children,; when he was holding their little lifeless bodies and trying to save the one still clinging on. Events no other person in the Clancy family experienced.
Speaking of killing kids. It’s worth nothing that Haines LOVES abortion and HATES pro-lifers.
In 2023, she demanded that pro-lifers let themselves die of cancer because it’s “God’s will” that they perish. “[I]f it's God's will on the way in, it should be God's will on the way out too. That brings into question are you taking heart attack medication? Are you treating your cancer? Are you dying when you said you should? Because if we’re going to argue about life in, then let's be honest about life out,” she sneered.
She was also took part when The View ghoulishly applauded rising abortion rates and decried a baby being saved by doctors.
Haines was also one of the more outspoken voices on the panel when they attacked conservative podcaster Isabel Brown for daring to encourage women to get married and have kids. She took on the anti-life position of whining about there being too many people on the planet and having a family was “the stupidest, most old fashion thing.” “The world has over 8 billion people! We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies!” she shouted.
Maybe her husband should start keeping an eye on her.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
September 22, 2026
11:06 a.m. Eastern(…)
SARA HAINES: I watched that trial like everyone did through the summer, and I think I'm left holding this thing in my chest that bothers me.
This is in no way dictating how people should mourn. This is not about criminal legal talk. This is just a human watching this story.
Over and over people showed up for her in that trial, her mother, both mothers, her mother, her mother-in-law, her sister, her best friend, and all of them also grieve the ultimate loss of these three children. But, they were able to see this woman they loved sitting there and know that they had that she had taken the lives of these babies. This is her husband.
BEHAR: They were able to see her -
HAINES: They were able to see her as a sick woman who, and even though they too were mourning the loss of their grandbabies and their nieces and nephews -
BEHAR: But he doesn't seem to be?
HAINES: What bothers me is he talks about forgiving her, which I love, but he focuses on that and never jumps to what so many people struggle with. How did the marital love end so quickly when you admit openly your, your wife got sick, she got sick. It doesn't mean you can be with them and it doesn't mean it doesn't remind you of the worst day of your life. But, I would hope in like ‘in sickness and in health,’ he said everyone was worried about her. They were tragically, their arms were around her as she was going down the drain.
I would hope that my husband wouldn't sit there and just move right along and like not care.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Does it bother you that he's remarried now and that -
HAINES: No, I can't pretend to know timelines or like when you meet someone or some people need love and they need to fill themselves again. I'm not shaming him on any of that. I just don't know why we skip straight to skipping all the marital things.
Did he - when they talked in prison and she didn't ask for forgiveness. Did - Is that when he served her the papers? Like.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: That's what stood out to me because I felt similarly while watching it to you, but then him admitting she never sought forgiveness. The first thing I would do is, what did I do? I am so sorry I took these three children from us.
BEHAR: Yeah, but she's crazy!
FARAH GRIFFIN: But she, but -
HAINES: Psychosis doesn't stay forever. Psychosis is bouts of -
FARAH GRIFFIN: I was glued to this case because it's so different - We've heard all these cases of women who have killed their kids. I never want to read them. They make my stomach sick. But this one was so complex because She clearly sought help. She repeatedly went to the system and said, ‘I need help. I needed.’
BEHAR: Yeah, they failed her.
FARAH GRIFFIN: They failed her. What stuck out to me is this. Listen, this man is, he's been through so much, so I don't want to ever seem like I'm victim blaming, but to say he doesn't take any responsibility. If I had ever said to Justin, ‘I've had thoughts of harming our child.’ He would never for five minutes leave me alone with them. He was gone for over 30 minutes when this act took place.
BEHAR: What, did you think she didn’t mean it? Star?
FARAH GRIFFIN: There should have been should have been a mom there. There should have been a neighbor there, a family. She never should have been alone with them.
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