Ana Navarro: Jim Mattis Would’ve Stopped Trump from Blaming Black Hawk Pilot for the Crash

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Anna, this press conference was as many things with Trump shocking but not surprising. It‘s in a way, a predictable response. But I guess the surprising part was how quickly it came. I mean, the bodies are still in the water, the families are still grieving. We don‘t know what caused this. I mean, I think we could hazard to guess it‘s probably not die.
>> Listen, I think there were some people after this election that thought for some reason. I‘m not sure why, but I know people who thought that Trump had changed and that for some reason this would be different and that we didn‘t know what we were going to be facing. And this brought back to me what Maya Angelou told us, right? When somebody shows you who they are, believe them the first time. And today was a wake up call for all those people that thought Trump was somehow going to change that he is the same. The same exact person that he was. This press conference was struck me for just how callous it was. How callous is it with the families and loved ones of those victims still in the water, to be without a shred of evidence, throwing out? Theories irresponsibly, like if it was spaghetti to a wall, and also that the irresponsibility of being the commander in chief and using the presidential bully pulpit to spread these conspiracy theories without evidence and just as disgusting as the idea that he‘s commander in chief and and he‘s blaming the helicopter pilots and that he‘s got a dod secretary. You see, this is something he couldn‘t have done if Jim mattis was secretary of defense, Jim mattis would have gone in front up on that podium and would have corrected him and would have pushed back. But now he‘s got these complicit secretaries in that cabinet that just clap and smile and nod, along with every insane thing that comes out of his mouth.
>> He assigned blame to the helicopter pilots, then also at the same time said it was the fault of di, the helicopter pilots are dead. Their families are grieving. That‘s the other part of this that I think was just astonishing.
>> Yeah.
>> It was.
>> You know, a lot of it is it looks.
>> Like he had research done by one of the hallucinogenic a.I. Bots or something like.
>> That.
>> Because it just wasn‘t accurate. And I think the problem is right now, there‘s so much information available everywhere that people pull from stuff that isn‘t accurate. And what has to happen is a normal thing, an investigation where all the facts come out and that should be the only thing we should focus in on. And, and unfortunately, he has a bully pulpit so he can do this. But to me, you just need to know exactly what happened. We have black boxes. We have actual evidence that will show this. And using this is probably a distraction free thing. Disgusting as it may be. You know, he‘s got these hearings going on for his his cabinet picks. It takes away attention. And I think one of the things again, is this same flooding the zone with all kinds of information.