JAN. 6 COMMITTEE ASKS IVANKA FOR COOPERATION: After the House committee called on former first daughter Ivanka Trump to answer questions about interactions at the White House with her father during the Capitol attack, #TheView panel reacts. https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/vOpSffZxvt
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While The View‘s Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro are usually on the same page about “mob daughter” Ivanka Trump, today’s hot topics presented a debate-worthy conundrum. The ladies were discussing the Trump daughter’s role in the Jan. 6 committee’s investigations when a slight disagreement arose between Hostin and Navarro.
Navarro said Ivanka had a lot of “rehab” issues with her public image, but still didn’t need to play such a huge role in the investigation — whereas Hostin dug her heels in on the matter.
After Joy Behar introduced the hot topic, Hostin began by making the point that Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner “used the office of the President to make money,” arguing that it was even worse than any of the other nepotism at play.
“I don’t know that she’s going to cooperate, but I think it’s less about Ivanka protecting her father and more about Ivanka protecting herself,” Hostin said. “Let’s remember that she took no public income when she was his senior advisor, but she and her husband made between $172 million and $640 million while they worked at the White House.”
Ultimately? “She’s not necessarily protecting her dad,” Hostin said, laying down the line. “She’s protecting herself.”
But Navarro fired right back: “See, I don’t agree with that. I don’t think the January 6 committee wants — everything you said, I agree with,” she clarified. “But I don’t think the January 6 committee is looking into any of that. I think they have a very narrow scope and they’re looking at the events. She’s got a first-hand account.”
Navarro went on to unpack Kushner and Trump’s “reinvention tour,” arguing that the pair were looking to reshape themselves more than “Cher and Madonna.”
“There’s no doubt in my mind that Ivanka has put in effort in trying to rehab her self-image. Every time we read any sort of article on this, there’s some leak about what Ivanka tried to do. Ivanka’s always trying to portray herself as the rational adult in the room who was trying to talk sense into her father,” Navarro continued. “She’s trying to whitewash what happened on January 6 and her role. If she wants that, her best bet is to try to go in and say it herself.”
“I don’t think she will,” Hostin jumped in.
Behar agreed: “She’s like any other daughter of a mob family,” she said. “You don’t talk against your father.”
Still, Hostin called for the Jan. 6 committee to really tear into Ivanka over her role in the Capitol riots. Hell, she’d even step in there herself if she had to do the task! After Navarro tried to assert that the Jan. 6 committee need not look into Ivanka Trump’s role, Hostin shut her down again.
“Let me tell you: I was a pretty good prosecutor. I never lost a case. I would love to get someone like Ivanka Trump on the stand, under oath, regardless of the scope,” Hostin said. “I would ask her about the money. I would ask her about her self-dealing, I would ask her about her interest.”
Navarro fired back at Hostin, “But not for the January 6 committee, Sunny. The January 6 committee is formed under regulations of the House of Representatives with the very narrow scope of looking into the events—”
“Her self-interest has nothing to do with the insurrection?” Hostin interrupted. “Her advice that she gave to her father?”
“Yep,” Navarro said, now seeming to agree. “The advice she gave to her father, what you were doing is different than—”
Hostin interrupted again: “Her bias has something to do with how she advised him.”
Behar jutted into the disagreement. “To me, she comes out like the good girl. She’s like, ‘Daddy, please stop this.’ That’s how it looks so far.”
“Which is why I don’t think she’ll ever cooperate,” Hostin said.
Even after the tiff, Hostin’s humorous reading of a legal note from Ivanka Trump’s team got all the ladies laughing. It’s Feel Good Friday, after all!