October 6, 2016

Watch This GOP Commentator Brutally Take Down Trump

CNN’s Ana Navarro didn’t hold back.


Ana Navarro, a political commentator for CNN, ABC, and Telemundo, went off on former Donald Trump advisor Michael Caputo after he denied that Trump’s comments about Mexican immigrants were racist.

“Ana, for you to sit here and call Donald Trump a flat out racist is outrageous,” Caputo said during a heated debate on Wednesday’s CNN Tonight.

Navarro doubled down, calling Donald Trump a racist not just in one language, but two. “Es un racista,” she said. “He is a bigot, he is a racist, he is a misogynist.” She later went on to Twitter to reinforce her views on the Republican candidate:

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