Following their vacation for the week of America’s birthday, ABC’s The View was coming in hot on Monday during their “Hot Topics” segment; ABC News co-host Ana Navarro suggested that Elon Musk stole the 2024 presidential election for President Trump. She received no push back from anyone for the accusation, instead, she received support from co-host Sunny Hostin. She even tried to ghoulishly politicize the tragic floods in Texas over the weekend.
During their opening segment about the continuing war of words between Trump and Musk, Navarro erroneously implied that Trump had made no public comments about the flooding in Texas, nor the deaths of dozens of people, including children. Instead, she shrieked about how “Trump was tweeting” while “there is death, sorrow, and tragedy in Texas.”
She continued to decry how Trump was supposedly staying silent on the tragedy: “I don’t understand why instead about — of saying to the American people, ‘we’re going to get to the bottom of what went wrong if we have to change things in — in Texas, in the weather system, NOAA, if we have to change things at FEMA we will.’ Instead of that, he’s taking the time to fight with his former bromance partner Elon Musk.”
Without evidence of what she was eluding to, Navarro demanded that Musk “look at what he did in this past election” with “his 300-plus-million dollars” spent. Again, without evidence, she suggested that he did more than just spend money, all while getting vocal support from Hostin:
NAVARRO: But I think Elon Musk needs to look at what he did in this past election.
HOSTIN: Yes.
NAVARRO: We have a broken system right now because there is no oversight. We have a broken system because there is a President who doesn’t believe in the Constitution and who defies judicial orders. And Elon Musk and his 300-plus-million dollars, and God knows what else he may have done that we don’t know of, own the problem that he created.
HOSTIN: Yeah.
This wasn’t the first time this kind of ugly election denialism had popped up on ABC’s The View this year. In May, ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg suggested that Trump had rigged the election and that he should be careful or people would start investigating. In June, Hostin herself asserted that Musk knew how the election was stolen.
Back on Monday, Navarro, who ABC insisted was a “Republican” voice on the panel, proclaimed that her goal “for the next year-and-a-half [was] getting Hakeem Jeffries elected speaker of the House, because that’ the choice in front of me right now.” She also wanted to make “sure that Democrats regain the majority.”
While speaking with Congressman Jeffries (D-NY) later in the show, Navarro ghoulishly tried to get him to use the dead bodies of little kids as a platform to attack Trump for the flooding in Texas. Jeffries didn’t take her bait, and said it shouldn’t be politicized:
NAVARRO: Before you go, I want you to say something about Texas, because the entire country is in mourning and people have questions about why this happened and could it have been avoided. Is there something that you can do?
JEFFRIES: It’s an unspeakable and horrific tragedy and, you know, our thoughts and prayers go out to every single family that has experienced a loss. And we know — you know, I mean, no parent should ever have to bury their child, and dozens will now have to bury their children. And so, with extreme weather events and the climate crisis and these natural disasters we should never play politics, ever. Not play politics with the wildfires. Not play politics with these floods.
The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read:
ABC’s The View
July 7, 2025
11:07:27 a.m. Eastern(…)
ANA NAVARRO: I was appalled last night that Donald Trump was tweeting and Truth Socialing, about this – this fight with Elon Musk at a time when there is death, sorrow, and tragedy in Texas. I don’t understand why instead about — of saying to the American people, ‘we’re going to get to the bottom of what went wrong if we have to change things in — in Texas, in the weather system, NOAA, if we have to change things at FEMA we will.’ Instead of that, he’s taking the time to fight with his former bromance partner Elon Musk.
And far as Elon Musk the guy is mercurial. There was a ton of people who thought they could have a partnership with him, an association with him. I mean, whether it’s Don Lemon, my friend, or Donald Trump, not my friend, or women, or you just name it. So, you know, he is mercurial.
But I think Elon Musk needs to look at what he did in this past election.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yes.
NAVARRO: We have a broken system right now because there is no oversight. We have a broken system because there is a President who doesn’t believe in the Constitution and who defies judicial orders. And Elon Musk and his 300-plus-million dollars, and God knows what else he may have done that we don’t know of, own the problem that he created.
HOSTIN: Yeah.
NAVARRO: So, you know, I am going to be focused right now for the next year-and-a-half in getting Hakeem Jeffries elected speaker of the House, because that’ the choice in front of me right now. Do I think both — either party is perfect? No. But I think we need oversight and the only way to do it is by making sure that Democrats regain the majority.
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11:26:25 a.m. Eastern
NAVARRO: Before you go, I want you to say something about Texas, because the entire country is in mourning and people have questions about why this happened and could it have been avoided. Is there something that you can do?
REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES (D-NY): It’s an unspeakable and horrific tragedy and, you know, our thoughts and prayers go out to every single family that has experienced a loss. And we know — you know, I mean, no parent should ever have to bury their child, and dozens will now have to bury their children. And so, with extreme weather events and the climate crisis and these natural disasters we should never play politics, ever. Not play politics with the wildfires. Not play politics with these floods. And get the American people the relief that they need and deserve. That’s my commitment.
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