Ana Navarro claims to still be a Republican despite actively campaigning for President Biden’s reelection effort and repeatedly defending allegedly corrupt Democrats such as New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez. And on Monday’s show, in the wake of former President Trump’s felony convictions under questionable circumstances, she raged at Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio for defending Trump by comparing him to a “dog.”
In the midst of The View’s whining about Republican politicians speaking out in support of the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Navarro bloviated about how, “You know, some people have emotional support dogs. Donald Trump has emotional support senators.”
She suggested they were fighting among “themselves as to who kisses his ass more” to become his vice president. “But worse amongst them is the senator from my state of Florida, Marco Rubio,” she declared.
After playing a soundbite of Rubio comparing the Trump trial to the show trials of communist Cuba after the revolution, Navarro exploded:
NAVARRO: How dare you, Marco?! How dare you?!
GOLDBERG: Oh, God!
NAVARRO: 5,600 Cubans, at least, were shot in front of firing squads! Another1,200 were shot and died because of extrajudicial hearings! How dare you use their name in vain so you can suck up to this man! I know you want to be his vice president, but don't you dare use the name of these people who died protecting freedom and compare our U.S. judicial system to what happens in Cuba, what happens in Nicaragua, what happens in Venezuela!
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg built off of Navarro and lectured Cuban-Americans about supporting Trump; insinuating that they were either hypocrites or stupid for doing so:
Let me ask, because I don't understand. All my life I have heard the Cuban people say, “we never want to see that. We're going to make sure it never happens here.” How can -- how can they not recognize when the man says, ‘I'm going to be this guy?’ What's -- what are we missing?
“And the reason I was so curious about Marco Rubio saying something like that is because you heard all these stories. Who do you think they were talking about? A dictatorship that ate the country. I don't understand how you think it's going to be different,” Goldberg bloviated.
Navarro was still fuming: “He knows better. He knows exactly what he's doing. He just thinks that the person that says the most outrageous thing will be rewarded by being Donald Trump's vice president.”
The hypocrisy of their outrage was on full display as pretend-independent co-host Sara Haines opined about how Trump and “the people around him have to stop sowing mistrust in our systems.”
“The percentage of trust in our institutions right now is down so low, only 27 percent of Americans have confidence in the Supreme Court,” she decried. “And I do mention the Supreme Court because it's also important to remember, you're not going to agree with everything everyone does…So, we have got to stop teaching people that when it doesn't go your way, something's wrong with the system.”
But just last week alone, The View ran multiple segments where they actively tore at the fabric of American institutions by attacking the legitimacy of the court.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
June 3, 2024
11:05:36 a.m. Eastern(…)
ANA NAVARRO: You know, some people have emotional support dogs. Donald Trump has emotional support senators, and they have been outdoing themselves as to who kisses his ass more. Who can kiss the ring? Who can –
[Applause]
And I get it. They're trying to audition to be vice president, and that is a big part of being his vice president is who can suck up to me. But worse amongst them is the senator from my state of Florida, Marco Rubio. I would like us to take a look at what he said.
[Cuts to video]
SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL): This is the quintessential show trial. This is what you see in communist countries. This is what I grew up having people in this community tell me about that happened in the days after the Castro Revolutions. Now obviously, those led to executions. This on the other hand, is an effort to interfere in an election.
[Cuts back to live]
NAVARRO: How dare you, Marco?! How dare you?!
GOLDBERG: Oh, God!
NAVARRO: 5,600 Cubans, at least, were shot in front of firing squads! Another1,200 were shot and died because of extrajudicial hearings! How dare you use their name in vain so you can suck up to this man! I know you want to be his vice president, but don't you dare use the name of these people who died protecting freedom and compare our U.S. judicial system to what happens in Cuba, what happens in Nicaragua, what happens in Venezuela!
[In Spanish: tells Rubio he should be ashamed of himself]
[Applause]
GOLDBERG: Let me ask, because I don't understand. All my life I have heard the Cuban people say, “we never want to see that. We're going to make sure it never happens here.” How can -- how can they not recognize when the man says, ‘I'm going to be this guy?’ What's -- what are we missing?
(…)
11:09:50 a.m. Eastern
SARA HAINES: I think Trump and the people around him -- Trump won't stop, but the people around him have to stop sowing mistrust in our systems. Sometimes you lose, and the other person didn't cheat and the system's not always rigged.
The percentage of trust in our institutions right now is down so low, only 27 percent of Americans have confidence in the Supreme Court, eight percent in congress, less than 20 percent in the media.
And I do mention the Supreme Court because it's also important to remember, you're not going to agree with everything everyone does, and our systems are not perfect. They have a dirty history of not being perfect, but they are perfect by comparison to a lot of other places in this world, and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. So, we have got to stop teaching people that when it doesn't go your way, something's wrong with the system.
GOLDBERG: Everybody doesn't always win.
HAINES: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: Isn't that what we have been talking about for years?
But I just hope that people recognize history. This is why history's so important to know because if you don't know what happened, you don't know what can happen. And I just -- And the reason I was so curious about Marco Rubio saying something like that is because you heard all these stories. Who do you think they were talking about? A dictatorship that ate the country. I don't understand how you think it's going to be different.
HOSTIN: There's a lack of world –
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: He knows better.
NAVARRO: He knows better. He knows exactly what he's doing. He just thinks that the person that says the most outrageous thing will be rewarded by being Donald Trump's vice president.
(…)
