Ana Navarro Smacks Down Kevin O’Leary’s Biden ‘History’ Ask With A Blunt Look At Trump
CNN’s Ana Navarro on Wednesday shut down Kevin O’Leary’s questions about how “history” will remember Joe Biden after the president used his farewell address to warn that democracy is at risk.
“How do you think history is going to treat his foreign policy, his Bidenomics, how do you think he’s going to be treated, pardoning his son? The Biden brand name. Do you think a single Biden would get on board of the —,” asked the “Shark Tank” investor, citing the president’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden.
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“I don’t think you can argue against pardoning the son when you voted — when you supported a felon,” said the CNN commentator of O’Leary, who recently met with Donald Trump ― and praised the president-elect’s golf game ― at Mar-a-Lago. “You see, that to me, you lose the moral authority there.”
O’Leary said he planned to meet with Trump to discuss his bid to acquire the U.S. operations of TikTok as a ban of the platform looms. He’s also voiced support for an “economic union” between Canada and the U.S. following Trump’s threats to the neighboring nation.
On CNN, O’Leary continued to press Navarro over how Biden helped his family “brand.”
“Worse than Nixon for him,” O’Leary said.
“You’re going to talk to me about helping the family when Jared Kushner got $2 billion from the Saudis,” said Navarro of Trump’s son-in-law, whose firm received an investment from a Saudi sovereign wealth fund just months after he left the White House.
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The tense exchange on the “CNN NewsNight” panel arrived moments after O’Leary took issue with Biden’s apparent “oligarchy” jab at Donald Trump, who is set to have a billionaire-friendly circle both in and around the White House.
Navarro hit back at O’Leary for suggesting that Biden was “punishing” billionaires who have cozied up to Trump, noting that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was at a state dinner in the Biden White House while his company and Elon Musk’s SpaceX have government contracts.
She then defined Biden’s farewell address as one for “history and posterity” and turned to his mention of the Statue of Liberty where he urged Americans to be the “Keeper of the Flame.”
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“He also talked about how so many of the things he did are going to grow and bloom in decades to come and I think that’s going to be the case,” she argued.
