'Give me a break, dude': CNN panel pummels 'not smart' Trump for Navalny comparison
Former Republican strategist Ana Navarro was furious about former President Donald Trump's comments comparing his own legal problems to the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Siberian labor colony — and unloaded on the former president in a CNN panel on Wednesday morning with fellow panelist and former state lawmaker Bakari Sellers.
Sellers got the ball rolling by declaring that Trump is "not smart" before handing the baton over to Navarro, who shredded Trump even further.
Navarro, who was born in Nicaragua and grew up devoted to the Republican Party at the time it was opposing communism in Latin America, took particular offense that Trump would dare claim he is in the same boat because he's being fined for business fraud and charged with election interference.
"Certainly you can include this in the crazy bleep that Trump says, and I think that's a great idea," said Navarro. "I think that the Biden campaign should have a morning session, they should have a morning TikTok, a morning Instagram, a morning outlet in social media where they highlight the crazy stuff that Trump said the day before. They might need more than 280 characters. They might need more than one page, because it is a daily routine."
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"This is particularly offensive and to me it's just befuddling, it's amazing," Navarro continued. "I have no explanation for how the party that I grew up in, idolizing Ronald Reagan, that confronted communism, that took on the U.S.S.R., that took on the Ortegas and the Castros of the world, can be kowtowing to this horrible assassin dictator in Russia and just instead, somehow equating it to what's happening in America."
"It's beyond stupid," she added, "it's beyond the crazy, it's offensive, and it is disgusting. We should, as Americans, all we speaking with one voice condemning Vladimir Putin and what he is doing. He is killing the dissidents. He is killing the opposition. And the blood on the hands is on Vladimir Putin, not on the Americans."
The former president, said Navarro, seems to have "this weird need for martyrdom. He's always the martyr. He's always this Christlike figure that, woe is me. I've never seen anybody who's been born with more had more privilege just kinda bestowed on him because of his birth and his last name and the position in life, and yet complains more about being mistreated. Give me a break, dude! You got out of serving in Vietnam ... you got money given to you, you got out of a bankruptcy because of your connections, and you're still complaining about your lot in life."
If Trump really wants to know what it's like to live with unfair adversity, she added, "Bakari and I can take take you to some neighborhoods."
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