The View’s Ana Navarro launches vicious attack on ‘Soviet Union’ Melania and Ivana Trump as she defends Ilhan Omar amid ICE raid

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By STEPHEN M. LEPORE, US SENIOR REPORTER Updated: 06:20 14 Oct 2026

Ana Navarro ripped Donald Trump’s raid on left wing Congresswoman Ilhan Omar by comparing Omar’s immigration history to that of two of the President’s wives.

Navarro, a never-Trump Republican and fixture on the show since 2022, was reacting to Trump saying Omar comes from a country ‘without laws, without police, without military’ and how she speaks of having ‘Constitutional rights.’

Moderator Whoopi Goldberg cracked: ‘Well, somebody’s gotta’ tell us what’s in the Constitution because you sure don’t seem to know.’

That’s when Navarro said: ‘Talking about people coming from countries without Constitutions, didn’t at least two of his wives come from the former Soviet Union?’

The heavily liberal crowed roared with approval over the reference to both Ivana and Melania Trump.

Navarro later said that the investigation will have no effect on Omar, citing her massive victories in her district in previous years.

‘The people who do like this stunt is the Republican base. The reason he’s on a tour, a desperate tour of red states is because even the Republican base is angry at Trump,’ she said.

‘He’s been obsessed with Ilhan Omar for years now and the Republican base hates her. I think what he’s doing is literally throwing red meat at the base because red meat is too expensive to buy!’

Ivana was born in what is now known as the Czech Republic before emigrating to Canada in the 1970s, then relocating to the United States and marrying Trump in 1997.

Melania, Trump’s third wife, was born in Slovenia before moving to New York in 1996 as a model.

Two years later, she met the billionaire businessman and future President and married him in 2005.

Speaking at a rally in Ohio Monday, Trump said of Omar: ‘She comes in from a country without laws, without police, without military, where all they do is shoot each other, and she comes into our country and she says, ‘’I have a constitutional right,’’ he said.

‘She’s telling us about the Constitution, and she comes from one of the worst countries anywhere on the planet,’ he added.

The president blasted the Somali immigrant as ‘totally crooked,’ even while he insisted he had ‘nothing to do’ with the criminal investigation into his longtime foe.

‘I’ve always found her to be totally crooked personally, but that has nothing to do with me,’ Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday before departing to appear at a midterm campaign rally in Ohio.

‘I have nothing to do with it,’ he added.

‘I understand they’re looking at her very carefully,’ Trump added of the Homeland Security investigations’ raid on Omar’s DC-area home.

The raid was carried out just three weeks before the midterm elections, breaking with longstanding internal Justice Department policies.

Omar, a Somali migrant who came to the US at age 12 with her family after they were granted asylum, has sparred with Trump for years.

Trump has falsely suggested on multiple occasions that Omar is in the country ‘illegally,’ despite the fact she obtained US citizenship in 2000, at age 17.

‘She’s here illegally,’ Trump said of Omar at an event in December 2025, taking aim at Omar, ‘whatever the hell her name is, with the little turban…’

The remarks come as Trump has repeatedly amplified claims questioning Omar’s net worth, pointing to an earlier financial disclosure suggesting that Omar and her family were worth at least $30 million.

The April disclosure sparked a flurry of calls for an investigation and misconduct charges by Republicans and lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee who questioned the apparent influx of wealth, which Omar and her office said was the result of an error by her accountant.

Last month, the Office of Congressional Conduct dismissed the misconduct allegations against Omar regarding the reporting error, as CNBC reported.

Omar for her part fired back against Trump’s latest remarks – denouncing the raid on her house as the latest in a flurry of recent efforts to ‘weaponize’ the nation’s law enforcement agencies, as well as an attempt to intimidate her in her reelection campaign.

‘For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns,’ Omar said on social media later.

‘This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.’

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