Political commentator and Republican Party strategist Ana Navarro on Friday slammed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for criticizing people who were outraged over President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on four congresswomen of color. Navarro, a co-host of “The View,” called out Rubio for his reluctance to say it was racist for Trump to say some progressive congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Trump didn’t mention his targets by name in that tweet, but evidently was referring to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) — all of whom are U.S. citizens. “I have seen Marco Rubio ― whose parents came here, fleeing poverty, who represents a community where they were told, ‘We won’t rent to Cubans, to blacks or to dogs ... you can’t drink from this water fountain’ ― I have seen him try to justify this,” said Navarro, who was born in Nicaragua. Rubio’s parents immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba, and they arrived in Florida in the 1950s.

Source: Huffington Post July 20, 2019 20:15 UTC