“Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary blasted his fellow panelists as “nuts” after a blowout argument over the results of the 2020 presidential election during “CNN NewsNight” on Tuesday evening.
It was the latest fiery clash between the multi-millionaire investor and lefty CNN commentator Ana Navarro, also a co-host of ABC’s “The View.”
As panelists were debating the 2020 election results, Navarro abruptly cut in: “We are seeing this happen over and over again where the federal government is fabricating things, lying.”
“Just in the last few weeks, we have seen cases involving federal agents with a Venezuelan national in Minneapolis who they claimed had charged them with a snow shovel and attacked them,” he continued.
O’Leary exclaimed: “What does that have to do with the ballot?”
The conversation devolved into chaos, with Navarro and O’Leary yelling over each other.
When host Abby Phillip asked O’Leary for a “quick last word” on the topic, he deadpanned: “Oh, wow. My last word is you’re all nuts.”
Phillip – who struggled to wind down Navarro and O’Leary’s explosive fight – lectured O’Leary at the end of the segment.
“Honestly, there’s a way to talk about these things. If you don’t have anything to say, just say that, and I won’t come to you next time,” she said.
In the case Navarro described, an immigration officer in January shot a Venezuelan migrant in the leg in Minnesota – claiming the man had violently assaulted an officer, with two other immigrants joining in and tried to bludgeon the officers “with a snow shovel and broom handle.”
Last week, the Justice Department filed a motion to drop criminal charges against the Venezuelan men, while ICE issued a statement admitting its federal agents made “false statements” under oath and have been placed on leave.
O’Leary blasted Navarro for bringing up the migrant-involved shooting, repeatedly asking, “What does that have to do with the ballot?”
“The point is that they charged them criminally and when they went to court, evidence proved that what they had said was a lie,” Navarro replied. “That this government lies. That’s the point.”
After Phillip tried to end the conversation, Navarro and O’Leary started yelling at each other once again – with Navarro saying, “You don’t know basic information, Kevin!”
