The View host shocks audience by revealing she used to go drinking with Trump's attorney general pick Pam Bondi

The View's Ana Navarro shocked her chap panelists arsenic she revealed that she utilized to beryllium drinking buddies with Donald Trump's prime for lawyer wide Pam Bondi. 

On Friday the panel discussed Trump's replacement for Rep. Matt Gaetz, who dropped retired of the AG information arsenic helium deals with intersexual battle and enactment trafficking claims.

'Pam Bondi, I judge she's a unsafe prime due to the fact that she supported Trump's mendacious election claims,' Hostin said. 'She was progressive successful the efforts to overturn the results and truthful that is present the idiosyncratic that's going to beryllium main instrumentality enforcement.

But Ana Navarro stepped in, claiming that she knows Bondi and the blimpish lawyer i's not a cook.'

'I don't privation to ruin her estimation with MAGA radical but Pam Bondi and I hung retired a batch erstwhile she was lawyer wide of Florida and she would travel to Miami,' Navarro said.

'We drank a batch together. I liked her a lot. She's not a kook. What's a small predetermination denialism betwixt friends when...'

Navarro was past interrupted by her chap panelists, with Sunny Hostin saying 'election denialism is simply a precise large deal.'

'I don't deliberation we request to minimize idiosyncratic similar that being who is expected to beryllium the people's lawyer she's going to beryllium trump's attorney,' Hostin continued.

'Listen, everything successful beingness is relative,' Navarro added.  'There is nary accusation of intersexual harassment oregon battle against her.'

Joy Behar past conceded that Bondi 'hasn't eaten a whale oregon stabbed a dormant carnivore cub' - seemingly alluding to quality stories astir Robert F Kennedy, who is Trump's prime to pb the Department of Health and Human Services.

Bondi was chosen by Trump to serve arsenic U.S. lawyer general hours aft his archetypal prime Gaetz withdrew from information aft a national enactment trafficking probe and morals probe made his quality to beryllium confirmed dubious.

The 59-year-old has agelong been successful Trump’s orbit and her sanction had been floated during his archetypal word arsenic a imaginable campaigner for the nation’s highest instrumentality enforcement role.

If confirmed by the Republican-led Senate, Bondi would instantly go 1 of the astir intimately watched members of Trump’s Cabinet fixed the Republican’s menace to prosecute retribution against perceived adversaries and interest among Democrats that helium volition look to crook the Justice Department to his will.

Bondi has been a longtime and aboriginal ally. In March 2016, connected the eve of the Republican superior successful Florida, Bondi endorsed Trump astatine a rally, picking him implicit the campaigner from her ain state, Florida Senator Marco Rubio- present Trump's prime for Secretary of State.

She gained nationalist attraction with appearances connected Fox News arsenic a defender of Trump and had a notable speaking spot astatine 2016 Republican National Convention arsenic Trump became the party’s astonishing nominee. 

During the remarks, immoderate successful the assemblage began chanting 'Lock her up' astir Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Bondi responded by saying, '"Lock her up," I emotion that.'

As Trump prepared to determination into the White House, she served connected his archetypal modulation team.

When Trump’s archetypal lawyer general, Jeff Sessions, was ousted successful 2018, Bondi’s sanction was floated arsenic a imaginable campaigner for the job. Trump astatine the clip said helium would 'love' Bondi to articulation the administration. He yet selected William Barr instead.

She kept a toehold successful Trump’s orbit thereafter, including aft helium near office. She served arsenic a chairwoman of America First Policy Institute, a deliberation vessel acceptable up by erstwhile Trump medication staffers to laic the groundwork if helium won a 2nd term.