The contentious vitriol was flying on CNN’s “NewsNight” on Wednesday, and Ana Navarro was in the center of a lot of it.
The co-host on “The View” got into a heated exchange with conservative Scott Jennings at one point as the discussion centered around the tattoos on illegal migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported back to El Salvador by the Trump administration.
Jennings noted in the segment that Democrats and those advocating for Abrego Garcia were “passionately arguing…to re-import a dangerous member of a transnational terrorist organization who has clear affiliations with a gang that commits heinous atrocities.”
ANOTHER Abby Phillip ref stoppage as Scott Jennings schools the panel on Kilmar Abrego-Garcia and his tattoos. pic.twitter.com/72OqWxZOk1
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“The politics of this could not be worse for the left and worse for Democrats, because the president knows he was elected to protect us from MS-13,” Jennings added, “and that is what they are doing.”
“Yeah, but none of the things you just said have been proven in court,” Navarro declared.
“But what do you say about the tattoos?” Jennings asked, as the debate continued over whether the image was “Photoshopped.”
“I say that what Trump said yesterday was an absolute lie,” Navarro replied, referring to President Donald Trump’s remarks during an interview with ABC News’ Terry Moran in which he referred to a photo that allegedly showed Abrego Garcia had MS-13 tattooed on his hand.
“Are you saying the MS-13 that Donald Trump claims are legitimate tattoos on this guy are true? Are you saying the Photoshop is true?” Navarro asked.
“Are you- are you a tattoo truther? I mean, I don’t understand,” Jennings said.
“Wait, are you a Photoshop denier?” Navarro fired back.
After another panelist interjected to say they were “getting away from the issue,” CNN host Abby Phillip surprised no one by interjecting and wrapping up the segment.
“Hold on. Yeah, we are getting away from the issue. Scott. The- the- the picture of his knuckles does not say MS 13,” she said. “So let me just explain to people what we’re talking about here. There are symbols on his knuckles. None of them says MS-13. However, this administration has decided that they symbolize something related to MS-13, which is disputed by a lot of people.”
After the panel devolved into a lot of cross-talking over each other, Phillip announced, “I am going to move on. I’m going to move on. Because this is not a conversation about the tattoos.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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