Ana Navarro says Trump’s ‘white wack job’ shooter was not a drag queen, an immigrant, or liberal woman

The View 's Ana Navarro said Monday that the 20-year-old shooter involved in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was not a drag queen, an immigrant, or "a pissed-off liberal woman."

"Today is a day, I think, and an entire time for self-reflection and a call to unity. I truly hope Donald Trump uses the platform he has to do that, and I also need to say I hope that at some point in this country we do have a conversation about what is happening because we can’t just react when it is our side," Navarro said about the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks.

She continued, "What was this again? It was, you know, a 20-year-old lone wolf, white wack job with easy access to a gun, and we have to have [[a] conversation about that because it wasn’t a drag queen. It wasn’t an immigrant. It wasn’t a pissed-off liberal woman, and this keeps happening.

"And we need to react not as Left or Right, not as Republicans or Democrats, but we need to react as Americans, and we need to ask better," Navarro said.

Co-host Joy Behar added that the shooter had "bought 50 rounds of ammunition from a local gun store hours before the rally."

"Shouldn’t that have been reported?" Behar asked. "Somebody buys — a 20-year-old white guy. We’ve seen that many times now. Young white men with guns and nobody reported that he bought 50 rounds of ammunition?"

Co-host Sara Haines called out the Secret Service not checking one nearby building as "a very blatant oversight of some form."

Haines went on to share that the assassination attempt felt "like another time" in history.

"When you mentioned this seems of another place like this doesn’t happen in America, I feel like this seems like another time because most of us have only read about assassinations or attempts in history," Haines said.

Behar pushed back on Haines about the timeline of assassination attempts in American history.

"Well, I was there for all of them," the 81-year-old television host chimed in, adding a joke about her age, "including Lincoln."

Haines backtracked, saying the 1960s was rife with "these sort of things."

Behar continued to fact-check Haines about American history.

"To say this doesn’t happen in America is false. It happened in your lifetime to Reagan and Gerald Ford — there were attempted attacks on his life," Behar said.

Haines, who was born in 1977, insisted the examples Behar gave happened "a very long time ago."

There were multiple assassination attempts on President Gerald Ford in September 1975, two years before Haines was born. President Ronald Reagan was injured after speaking at the Washington Hilton hotel, when John Hinckley Jr. shot him in 1981, which was when Haines was 4 years old.

Navarro then jumped in to correct Haines.

"Sara, just in the last seven years, Steve Scalise," she pushed back, referencing the Republican congressman from Louisiana who was shot and seriously wounded in 2017 during a practice for that year's Congressional Baseball Game.

Co-host Sunny Hostin added, "Gabby Giffords."

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Haines then pivoted to celebrating President Joe Biden's "unifying message" about recognizing that political violence has no place in this country.

Navarro also said that she was happy that the former president was "safe" and that she condemned all forms of political violence. She shared that she had fled political violence in Nicaragua, and it's "not supposed to happen in America."