‘The View’: Ana Navarro Criticizes Trump’s Reaction to White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting
The View‘s cohosts were just as shocked as anyone about what happened on Saturday (April 25) night during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. After shots rang out near the Hilton ballroom and Secret Service agents swept in to remove Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and other executive members in attendance, other agents disarmed and apprehended the suspect. Since then, eye-witness accounts of the events have been flooding in, including one from The View‘s own executive producer Brian Teta, who was present and said it was “scary.”
Ana Navarro was particularly unnerved by the incident … and the aftermath, for which she criticized Trump directly.
First, she revealed that what shook her the most was hearing how scared CNN’s Wolf Blitzer reportedly was. “Wolf is a mentor, a close friend, and one of the most unflappable men on TV. Wolf is a guy who covers wars. I’ve seen him in tunnels with bombs crawling, his family survived and fled the Holocaust. And to hear Wolf talk about how scary this was, to hear Wolf say that he was three or four feet away from the shooter who got tackled down, that really hit me,” she said.
She also reacted to those percolating theories that the shooting was “staged” somehow, saying, “I don’t think that. Let me just be clear. I don’t think that. But where are we in America? When Reagan was shot in 1981, nobody would have thought about that. And so I think people have to take stock of just the level of influence that misinformation, that the lies have had on the American psyche, that the first conclusion so many people reach because of the polarization and because of some of the things that our elected officials have done.”
It was then that she offered a rebuke of Trump’s press conference words after the shooting, in which he insisted this incident was why he needed the White House East Wing ballroom that he has been pushing for.
“Frankly, it’s crazy to me that one of the first things Trump did after this was… go push for a ballroom and use this, instead of calling to a better angel and calling for unity, use it to call for the building of his ballroom. I just think school children have as much a right to have safe schools as politicians,” she continued.
Navarro also suggested that since politicians themselves experienced what many school shooting victims have, hiding under tables and fearing for their lives, perhaps it will finally inspire Congressional or administrative action on gun violence.
Later on in the discussion, Navarro offered another rebuke of Trump. After pointing out that some commenters have been blaming “the left” for the shooting, she said, “If we’re going to be honest about this, the heated political rhetoric is going on on both sides. Look, just last week after Trump was attacking the Pope, the Pope’s brother, who lives in Chicago, who lives in Illinois, had a bomb threat at his house. So this is a moment for people to take stock on what we can do and on what the people we support and like can do, not just the people that we don’t like and support are doing, and we shouldn’t be getting into a contest of who’s better or who’s worse. But the one thing that we can’t argue about is that the guy with the biggest bully pulpit is Donald Trump, and I beg of him, after three close calls, to take time to reflect and give us an example, lead by example.”
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Now Ana let me help you with your amnesia. Maxine Waters said referring to conservatives “ when you see them in public like in eating places or entertainment places Get In Their Faces, Don’t Let Then Be Comfortable” !! Hakeem Jeffries “ We need to take it to the streets we need to fight”. Those are just a small sampling and I might not have the Exact wording but the spirit of their wording sounded like a call to violence. Oh and the Left loves to say “ Our Constitution”, “ Our Democracy”. Do the Readers here know that several Liberal Left Congresspersons have called for Abolishing the Constitution and starting over ? They ONLY cite the Constitution when they think it plays to their favor. IN FACT Many on the Liberal Left have called the Writers of the Constitution White Suprematist !! They called out first President and the General primarily responsible for helping Win our Freedom to be a Nation a White Suprematist !! And tore his statue down in some places !! In summary the Liberal Left incites violence and violent behavior in leftist lunatics Far More than the right does for right wing extremists. They’re unfiltered HATE for Trump just exceeds all boundaries !! They know No limits. Then when bad things happen they feign innocence or more often than not push the blame off on someone else mainly Trump. You spoke of you’re love and respect for Wolf Blitzer so WHEN will and yours start blaming the Perpetrators and hold Them accountable instead of Blaming Trump ?
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Ms. Navarro makes perfect sense with what she just said!
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No Antonio no she does not. She’s using two sets of standards. Parts of what she said were OK. But she just couldn’t resist the temptation to bash on Trump. Why ? Cause she’s just Gotta !! I will say I very much respected your comments about violence on another thread. But I’m gonna say this and I Ask ( Not demand) that you stop and think about it for a moment. Guns are inanimate objects. It takes a Person to operate it. If someone ever sees a gun get out of a locker by itself and go out and shoot someone by itself please send me a video. Disarm ALL Americans and the Bad Guys will STILL Be armed. Even With my firearms for self defense I might be killed by violence but I want my 2nd Amendment Right to at least Try to defend my wife and I !! Cops do their Very best but they can’t bd Every where ALL the time. I’m 69 and I’ve had Two experiences where Having my gun saved our lives !!
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I stand by my above comment. As for the Gun Control issue, look, if you got yours legally, I have no problem with it. And you got trained for it. That's good too. But the problem is, many people get them illegally and now there are some states, like my home one of Louisiana, that don't require training. That's not fair to those who don't want to watch for danger everywhere they go. So while I'm glad for those with guns who have the training to properly use it, I fear for those who just buy one without taking the proper instructions for handling such a dangerous weapon.
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Some of what you say I agree But Antonio here’s the deal the people that get guns Illegally don’t have respect for our laws !! Just like people who enter our country Illegally don’t have respect for our border laws. Yeah I lived in Lafayette, LA. many years ago my soon to be 41 year old Son was born there. For the record Antonio I’ve got pretty snarky with you on here. We think Totally different. But I think you’re a nice guy. I just don’t understand you. Please See My next comment.
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The View show where Behar says Trump is trying to kill us !! Hmmm this makes three the fourth if you count the guy pointing a rifle at the WH that law enforcement took away from him before he fired it. Attempts on President Trump’s life. None that I’m aware of on Behar and the rest of the crew. And NO I’m NOT calling for that either. I leave such evil antics up to the folks on the left. You know the folks that think holding a severed head look alike of the President is just to cute !! And No these dear ladies would never incite some radical psycho with their sweet and loving rhetoric. No way !! Rrrright. 🙄
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Ana talking about leading by example is SO rich !! With her show having Kathy Griffin Ms. Severed Head lover on. Griffin whining and belly aching about how badly she’s been treated. She’s Very fortunate she’s not in Fed Prison !! There was a man I knew of ( no I didn’t know him personally) that was arrested for making a mild sounding threat about Jimmy Carter. Oh Wait I’m sorry Carter was a Democrat, so it’s a Different set of standards for them Huh Ana ? And had the first attempt been Obama the Left would have burned down entire city blocks in multiple cities while assaulting Law Enforcement & innocent bystanders with the obligatory looting of course. Hypocrite Ana. Why don’t you and the ladies STOP bashing Trump ? I know you Love it to much !!
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You know with the belief system like Ana and the other “ladies” of The View have. It’s small wonder why Many on the Left see Luigi Mangione and Robinson , two cold blooded murderers as National Hero’s !! Sadly Mangione
is gonna probably walk on probation by a liberal judge for shooting a man in the back like the Coward he is leaving a widow and two children. But Illegal Immigrants are killing Americans and walking free by some liberal judges so we’re a bit used to it now.
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