Fox News reports that "The View" co-host and CNN commentator Ana Navarro said Tuesday that she didn't believe Donald Trump was legitimately elected president in 2016.

In a segment looking ahead to the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Navarro said that while she felt Trump was elected with "help from the Russians," she would never encourage using force to atone for that injustice in her eyes. However, one of her co-hosts immediately suggested after she spoke that not accepting President Biden as legitimate was dangerous.

"We’ve seen [Republicans] bow down to Trump because they want to stay elected, and because they’re putting their own positions over democracy and over defending the U.S. institution of a legitimate election," she said. "Look, I felt that Donald Trump had not been legitimately elected. I thought he'd gotten help from the Russians. 

Co-host Sunny Hostin then noted that 58 percent of Republicans, according to a recent survey, did not feel Biden was legitimately elected in 2020, a curious statement as Navarro had just acknowledged she felt the same way about Trump in 2016.

Polling in 2017 found that two-thirds of Democratic respondents did not believe Trump was legitimately elected to the White House, and the Russia collusion narrative dominated media coverage of his term in office. Ultimately, a sprawling federal investigation found no proof of coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin to interfere in the 2016 election.