Republican strategist Ana Navarro said on Thursday that she was "mad as hell" at President Donald Trump's Twitter attack on MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski and demanded that other Republicans "start playing hardball" with the president.
"I'm sitting here – as an American, a woman and a Republican," Navarro, who supported former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush during last year's presidential primaries, told Anderson Cooper on CNN.
"I'm mad as hell on all three counts: As a woman, I can tell you I'm fed up with this guy's attacks on women's looks and objectifying women and his weird fixation with women and blood.
"Whether it's Rosie O'Donnell or Megyn Kelly or Alicia Machado or Heidi Cruz.
"As an American, I am very mad at the way that he is diminishing the office of the president of the United States," Navarro said. "I'm mad at what he's teaching our children.
"I'm very mad that there are children learning to bully because of what the president says and does – and as a Republican, I am livid that more Republicans are not standing up and that those people in the White House surrounding him are enabling this."
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that Trump's slam of Brzezinski and her "Morning Joe" co-host, Joe Scarborough, proved that he "fights fire with fire."
Navarro said that Republicans must "take more action" against the president, "because if not, they are going to be saddled with this for the rest of this term.
"And, there's going to be no legislative action.
"They have got to start playing hardball," she said. "They are not the Donald Trump constituents.
"They are an independent branch – and they have got a duty to defend the integrity and reputation of this country."
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