IHIP News - The Trump Campaign Is a CATastrophe With Ana Navarro

Episode Date: September 21, 2024

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We are back on the Reproductive Freedom tour bus and today with Ana Navarro. How are you, Ana? I'm doing great. So happy to be in Pennsylvania. You know, I was here in the Lehigh Valley for the first time a couple of weeks ago. And I have to say, I did not realize this was the third largest Puerto Rican community in the country. So I think I'm now going to go on tour and just visit Puerto Rican communities around the country. It's so fun. I love that. And so now that we're on the reproductive tour bus and you really think about being a woman and going to the OBGYN, and then you hear the stuff from JD Vance about this obsession with women breeding and how weird it is and how he thinks that's his business. I think he really is weird.

And I think it's uncanny how many conversations about cats we have had in this campaign. There has been more conversation about cats, cat ladies, cats in Ohio, cats all over the country than there have been about policy issues we should all be caring about. I mean, can you just stop being so catty? You know, J.D. Vance has been a catastrophe. Yes. I could go on with this. He absolutely has been. Don't you think it's really rich right now that they are trying to claim that the rhetoric from the left and from the Harris-Walls campaign is causing angst amongst the electorate. And when I look at who these shooters are, I never see a black and brown person, a female, a trans person, a drag queen. I never see that. But what I always see is a white man. So I think it's really rich how they are, instead of addressing the issue of how easily it is for

somebody to access an assault weapon, trying to blame the people who are actually putting forth policies to solve this problem? Look, number one, I condemn all political violence. I hate it. I hate it so much because I fled political violence in Nicaragua. So for me, and it's something that's very prevalent in places like Nicaragua, like Venezuela, where there's political opposition in jail and people being tortured and jailed by Maduro. And from Cuba, where there is such a big community in Miami where I live. Haiti, such a big community in Miami where I live. They're fleeing political violence. So for me, political violence is a very serious thing. And it's an awful thing and something that shouldn't happen in America, but has been

happening in America. We have seen Gretchen Whitmer, an attempt to take her to kidnap her. We have seen Paul Pelosi's skull bashed in with a hammer. We have seen the congressional baseball game practice interrupted by a man with an assault weapon shooting at the Congress people. We've seen now two attempts against Donald Trump. There are people in jail right now because of threats against Kamala Harris and threats against Joe Biden that were foiled.

So this is something that has become much more prevalent, it feels to me. And I do think it's rich that Donald Trump wants to blame Democrats and takes absolutely no responsibility for what he's contributed to political violence. I mean, just in political division and hostility in this country. Just in the last week, just in the last week, according to the Republican governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, there have been 33 bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio. Did they just randomly pick Springfield? Did it randomly begin happening days after the debate

when Donald Trump elevated that conspiracy theory against Haitians in Springfield to a national level in front of 70 million people? Of course not. There is a direct cause and effect to what is happening in Springfield. And the people in Springfield having to take each one of those bomb threats, even if they are hoaxes, seriously, because let's remember what happened in Georgia 10 days ago. When somebody called in a threat to the school, they didn't act quick enough, and now there's four people dead. We live in an America where you have to take threats seriously, where schools are getting closed down, where hospitals are evacuating.

I mean, it is tragic what that community is going through. And there is a direct cause and effect between the conspiracy theory that has been elevated by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and what's happening in Springfield. And those people, those people don't have 24-7 Secret Service, which I am glad Donald Trump has. I am glad they were able to foil this attempt against him. Yesterday, we were at a hospital in Philly, inner city hospital that provides free care for the community. And there was a president of the Nurses Association of Brooklyn there. She was a guest speaker. And she proudly said when she spoke, I am a Haitian immigrant and I am the president of this nurses association. And my heart just kind of panged a

little bit because you hear all this rhetoric and it seems so topical in the news and it shifts, but there are whole communities that are already marginalized and trying to work and experience joy, make a sandwich, go to bed on time, get up and punch their clock in the morning and go home and see their kids. And you have a whole political movement that is identifying these people as some sort of vicious enemy when they're really just human beings trying to work. And you spoke to this fabulous clip that I saw about what the Haitian community must be feeling that are here legally and participating in democracy and participating in working here. I wanted to see what you had to say about that.

You know, what's the most ironic thing is I was watching yesterday the press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, surrounding the capture of the man who, I guess, was lying in wait, waiting to shoot Donald Trump. The U.S. attorney in Florida leading the case against the man who tried to shoot Donald Trump is Haitian, is Haitian American. The Florida U.S. attorney, federal U.S. attorney, his name is Markensi Lapuant. He came here as a Haitian immigrant at the age of 16. He served in the Marine Corps. He went on to become a lawyer. And today, he is leading the case to keep people like Donald Trump, to keep Donald Trump specifically safe and for there to be consequences for any attempt on his life. So how

is that for irony and for God working in mysterious ways after four days now there's been such racist attacks against the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio. I think it puts a target on the backs of Haitians because, you know, people are out there thinking Haitians are a bunch of savages who eat pets, who eat dogs and eat cats and decapitate geese and all these stupid, stupid, false conspiracies not based on truth. And that the officials and the law enforcement in Springfield, Ohio, the governor, I know Mike DeWine, the governor there, he used to be in the Senate. He is one of the most conservative people I have ever met, but truly of conservative and religious and Christian values. And he is out on TV saying, stop this.

You are putting people in danger. And the Haitians that are there are there to fill jobs. They are there to do much needed work. And so people need to stop amplifying and elevating these conspiracy theories that are putting humans in danger. I agree. Okay. Now we're going to play, we're going to shift gears and play a game with you called had it or hit it. So if you like something, you'll say hit it. And if you don't, you'll say had it. Okay. Had it or hit it. Taylor Swift.

I've never been a Taylor Swift person, but now you can just color me with glitter. Give me some friendship bracelets. I mean, I am all in. What is it? I hit it. I even want to go to her concert in Miami. She's going to be there in October 19th. Because listen, you know, it takes guts in this environment to come out and make an endorsement, make it public. But I think that whether you're famous or not, whether you are a celebrity or not, as Americans, we all have a right

to speak our mind and to make our own choices, whether it's for whom we're voting for or what we're doing with our bodies. So good for her. I agree. I was going to ask you just to follow up when we saw the I hate Taylor Swift post that he made. What ran through your mind? Because we were just like, he's a dipshit. Like, why would he post that? Because he's immature and because he's petty and because as much as they like to undervalue the effect of her endorsement, they know that when she can get half a million young people to register within three days of her endorsement, it makes a difference in states this woman, this young, successful woman stood up to him and is not afraid of him. But it's ridiculous. Look, Donald Trump has tweeted against me. He's tweeted against me when he was president, when he had the bully pulpit of the presidency. Imagine being president of the United States and using that bully pulpit to tweet against

me. Okay. And when Donald Trump tweets against you, gates of hell open up and every demon comes out and attacks you. I know what it's like in a very small percentage and fraction of what I am sure Taylor Swift is getting, but she's not afraid. And we're not going to be silent and cower because this man child does a little tweet and his little feelings are hurt. So stupid. It's just so stupid. So stupid. Like why would the president of the United States or former president? And it drives me crazy, the double standard. I mean, think for one minute what would have happened if Joe Biden in a presidential debate had made up some bullshit about Haitians eating cats and dogs. I assure you, immediately, men in white coat would have jumped on the stage and would have taken him to a loony bin.

But Donald Trump gets away with saying crazy shit constantly and nobody cares. It's like, oh, it's just Donald Trump being Donald Trump. Oh, he's just joking. Oh, he's being sarcastic. He's being hyperbolic. You don't take him seriously. There's 33 bomb threats. I'm going to take him seriously. All right. Speaking of taking things seriously, had it or hid it the Supreme Court?

Well, I think that's a tough one because I think there's spectacular people on the Supreme Court. I think Ketanji Jackson is spectacular. I think Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina, is spectacular. And I'm an institutionalist, and I really believe in the need to have three working branches of government. But I think the Supreme Court is acting terribly. The leaks, the sniping, the partisanship, the ethical violations, the ethical issues going on with accepting all of these gifts. So I have had it with the lack of consequences for unethical behavior from Supreme Court justices who are there for life. I agree with that. I agree more. I mean, the Supreme Court justices seem to have issues with their wives flying anti-democratic

flags at their properties, which just blows my mind. But we don't have much time left. Had it or hid it, democracy? Oh, hid it. Listen, one of the things that's shaped me, as I've said, is having fled a civil war, having fled a communist revolution that then turned into a dictatorship that's now lasted decades in my home country of Nicaragua. When you come from that, you know democracy is beautiful, it's imperfect, and it's frail and must be defended and must be protected. Last one, had it or hit it, Kamala Harris. Oh, I love my girl Kamala. You know, I've known her for about seven years now and we are friends. I just saw her on Saturday. First of all, I told her she is doing amazing things for the pussy bow.

I mean, she's like single- handedly bringing the pussy bow back in style. I have now bought myself two blouses with pussy bows. And, uh, you know, she is just such a, you know, she's such a good, decent person who doesn't forget where she came from. And one of the things I will never forget, and I will always be grateful for, when my mom died a couple of years ago, she called me. Her mom, her and Maya's mom had died years before of cancer. And it was the saddest moment of my life when your mother dies, you know. And I was saying to her, you know, Kamala, I really shouldn't complain and I shouldn't be sad. I'm almost 50. I had my, I had a spectacular mom for almost 50 years. And she said to me, don't do that, Anna. Your grief is yours. Every grief

is unique. Don't underestimate, don't undervalue your grief. And she talked me through things I could do to celebrate my mom and keep her with me. Like she told me, she keeps a picture of her mom in the kitchen. And that way, when she's cooking, she feels like she's cooking with her mom. I told her I was going to need to find a different room for my mom who couldn't even boil water. And, you know, she talked to me about playing her favorite songs and just, you know, celebrating the things that she loved. And I can't tell you what a difference that made for me at that very sad time. And we need a president capable of having empathy and compassion because invariably there are going

to be tragedies in America in the next four years, whether it's tornadoes or fires or floods or hurricanes or buildings collapsing or attacks or mass shootings. And we need a president who can embrace us, who can hold us, who can lift us up. And as we have seen from his Taylor Swift tweet, the only thing Donald Trump can hold is a grudge. Couldn't have said it better myself. Anna Navarro, it was a real treat. And thank you for doing this. Thank you for taking your time to be on this tour. I hope that you're getting as much out of it as you're putting into it. We are. We live in a red state where we have a total abortion ban. Where are you all from? Oklahoma. Oh, wow. And so we see firsthand what these policies do in Republican super majorities

when they have a MAGA majority. It is not good. It does not end well. So we're out fighting the good fight. And it's just been a real pleasure meeting you. Thank you. Same to same to you. And thank you for your voice and everything you're doing. And thank you for babysitting Cha-Cha. Cha-Cha is the first dog and I've had it. And while her mother was giving a barn burner of a speech at a rally outside the bus, I had the luxury of babysitting Cha-Cha. I walked her, but every time she heard her mother's voice, she would have a stage five meltdown. She wanted mama. Yeah. I will tell you something. Cha-Cha and Kamala have a very special relationship. Thank you I will tell you something. Cha-Cha and Kamala have a very special relationship. Thank you.

Thank you so much. It's so entertaining to have the fame. So good.