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In a stunning twist, The View’s Ana Navarro says Maduro capture brought her to tears

January 6, 2026 | | Print Article

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s apprehension resulted in “The View” co-host Ana Navarro being “brought … to tears” and made her unable to maintain a negative spin on President Donald Trump.

It’s often been suggested that if Trump were to cure cancer, then the left would rally on the side of cancer, a point seemingly proven by Democrats decrying the arrest of a dictator allegedly responsible for narcoterrorism. Try as she might to bury the lede under a mountain of suppositions about the president, Navarro couldn’t help but express her own “great joy” at what he’d done with her take on Maduro’s ouster.

Prompted by co-host Whoopi Goldberg’s question as to “who voted for this,” Navarro, herself a Nicaraguan-born Florida resident, expressed, “The people in South Florida: the Venezuelan community, the Cuban-American community; the Nicaraguan-American community voted for this.”

“And for us, this is a very happy day when we see a dictator who has been part of oppressing and abusing the Venezuelan people for 25 years, when we see him in handcuffs and held to some sort of accountability,” she went on. “It brought me to tears. It brought me great joy.”

As co-host Sunny Hostin, who’d earlier attempted to make a case that Trump violated “international law,” sought to steer away from the positive and back toward Trump Derangement Syndrome with a question on whether the ends justified the means, Navarro responded, “I think you can criticize and ask questions and have concerns about the way it was done and what this means in the future. And I think you can still celebrate that this murderous, corrupt, sadistic son of a b*tch is out of Venezuela.”

Of course, while the main takeaway from the co-host had been lauding the outcome, that commentary came after she attempted to malign the president’s motivations, asserting that he “doesn’t give a damn about the Venezuelan people. If he did, he wouldn’t be taking away temporary protective status from 600,000. He wouldn’t be arresting the Venezuelans that are seeking asylum here. He wouldn’t be maligning the entire community and sending hundreds of Venezuelans to a hellhole prison in El Salvador.”

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“I don’t think Donald Trump gives a damn about drugs,” she added, referencing Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted for cocaine importation and weapons charges.

Meanwhile, as Navarro attempted to have her cake and eat it too as her coffee klatch piled on claims about oil and voiced fears that Russian President Vladimir Putin would similarly arrest Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — at the same time they welcomed the potential for the opposite — social media reactions included surprise at the semblance of a positive reflection on Trump’s actions in Venezuela with a reminder that while South Florida residents voted for this, “She voted against this.”

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