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Republican Ana Navarro Annihilates Donald Trump Supporters On ‘The View’: ‘You Sold Your Souls’  

Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. As Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory, thousands of people have gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump and his claims of election fraud. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
DC National Guard walk around the Capitol grounds, Thursday morning, Jan. 7, 2021 in Washington. The House and Senate certified the Democrat's electoral college win early Thursday after a violent throng of pro-Trump rioters spent hours Wednesday running rampant through the Capitol. A woman was fatally shot, windows were bashed and the mob forced shaken lawmakers and aides to flee the building, shielded by Capitol Police. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
UNITED STATES - January 7: The East Front of the U.S. Capitol is seen through a shattered door leading to the center steps in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, following the riot at the Capitol the day before. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
DC National Guard stands outside a mostly quiet Capitol, Thursday morning, Jan. 7, 2021 in Washington, as workers place security fencing in place. The House and Senate certified the Democrat's electoral college win early Thursday after a violent throng of pro-Trump rioters spent hours Wednesday running rampant through the Capitol. A woman was fatally shot, windows were bashed and the mob forced shaken lawmakers and aides to flee the building, shielded by Capitol Police. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) View Gallery View Gallery 25 Photos.
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Republican commentator Ana Navarro disses Donald Trump’s supporters and Congress members, even if they changed their stances after the Capitol riot, on ‘The View.’

Political commentator Ana Navarro, 49, may be Republican, but that doesn’t mean she supports Donald Trump …or the rest of his Conservative supporters. The guest co-host on The View appeared on the talk show’s Jan. 8 episode to not only share her thoughts on Trump supporters’ invasion of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. — where Congress had gathered to certify Joe Biden’s election win just two days prior — but to also condemn the Republicans who supported the POTUS before the riot.

“I’ve fled communism, I’ve seen this before. I never thought I would see it in the United States of America,” Navarro, who moved with her family from Nicaragua to the United States in the 1980’s, said after expressing her “shock” and “sadness.”

Navarro now finds the country’s current political climate ironic. “I was so struck by the irony that Republicans, pro-Trump Republicans have spent months telling us Democrats would turn America into Venezuela,” the media personality continued. “Instead, it is Donald Trump who has turned America into Venezuela, a place where dictators try to perpetuate themselves in power by using mobs to threaten and attack their opponents.”

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A group of Donald Trump supporters climb the wall into the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C. on Jan. 6, 2020. (Photo Credit: AP Images)

Navarro then told Joy Behar, “I’m livid. I am livid at all of those Republicans who have spent four years enabling, normalizing, legitimatizing, emboldening Donald Trump, and who all of a sudden have woken up for their four-year fever.” Navarro went on to say that the Republicans who have since switched course are “not going to erase in four days” what they’ve “done in four years” and named Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. They are all members of Congress who supported Trump and his challenge against the Nov. 2020 presidential election results, but later changed course in the wake of the riots: Graham urged his colleagues to certify Biden’s win; Cruz said he “disagreed” with Trump’s “language and rhetoric for the last four years” on a Houston TV station, per CNN; and Rubio asked Trump to “restore order” at the Capitol last Wednesday.

Navarro continued to call out the Congress members, saying, “All of them looked the other way and played stupid and were accomplices because they liked his Cuba policy or because he moved the embassy in Israel or because they liked his abortion policy or his judicial nominations and they were willing to look the other way and embrace and legitimize a criminal….a person who is a deranged mad man who has threatened the national security and social fiber of America so that they could get the little bones he threw at them and they wanted.”

With that said, Navarro doesn’t think the Republicans who are now trying to distance themselves from Trump should be given any slack. “Telling us that we compromised, that were sellouts. No, you sold your souls out to support a criminal and you’re going to have to live with that,” Navarro said. “There is nothing you’re going to say in the next 13 days that’s going to erase what’s happened in the four years.”

Trump has faced widespread backlash for his tweets amid the storming of the U.S. Capitol, in which he called the rioters “special.” His Twitter account was suspended for 12 hours afterwards. After Congress certified Biden and Kamala Harris‘s wins, Trump posted a speech confirming that “a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th.”