On October 17, France had one of the worst days of street violence in its modern history.
In Limoges, rioters set fire to the town hall, a landmark that opened in 1883. The fire climbed to the roof and the bell tower collapsed. In Marseille, rioters broke into city hall, attacked a police station, and looted about 300 shops. In Lyon, the tourist office went up in flames, and roughly 160 businesses were damaged or looted. Paris saw barricades, burning cars, and looting within sight of the Élysée Palace.
By the next day, French authorities had counted 2,397 arrests and 997 police officers and gendarmes injured, seven of them seriously.
Ana Navarro looked at all of that and thought of January 6th.
On October 21, the CNN political commentator went on the network and compared France's riots to what "has happened in America on January 6th."
Watch the insane connection CNN tries to make
Here's what happened at the Capitol on January 6th: in an afternoon, about 140 officers were injured, a Capitol Police officer shot an unarmed protester, and no buildings were burned. France managed 997 injured officers in a single day, along with a burned historic town hall, a ransacked city hall, and hundreds of looted shops across a dozen cities.
The two days don't compare, but on CNN, every story eventually becomes a story about Donald Trump.
That wasn't even Navarro's most unhinged moment of the week.
The day before, on ABC's The View, the panel was asked a lighthearted question. President Trump had just hosted Bill Maher, Stephen A. Smith, and Kid Rock for dinner at the White House. Maher has spent years mocking Trump, and he showed up anyway. Kid Rock described the evening as "two Democrats, two Republicans sit down, break bread, have laughs."
So, would the ladies of The View accept an invitation?
Sara Haines joked that it wouldn't be "Lady and the Tramp." Alyssa Farah Griffin said she'd go, because "it's about having a conversation."
Navarro exploded. "No, but, listen, stop, this is not funny!" she said. "There is no way in hell, no way in hell I would want to break bread or be in the same room with a man whose administration is hunting Latinos."
Then she kept going. "They are killing Latinos, chasing them, hunting them, racially profiling them, torturing them, sending them to places in far-off Africa," she said. "You think I'm going to go share a meal with him?"
The next day on CNN, she took it further, claiming that Black and Latino Americans are being tortured, hunted, and treated worse than animals under Trump.
So within 48 hours, Navarro compared France's worst riots in years to the Capitol riot, refused to share a meal with the President, and accused his administration of hunting and killing Latinos. CNN calls her a political commentator.
Trump keeps having dinner with people who've called him every name in the book. Navarro won't sit at the same table with him because, as she put it, "I can buy my own damn wine and my own damn food."
She did say one thing worth repeating. Trump, she said, will be held accountable by "the people who are going to vote in the midterm elections."
She's right about that, and those voters will notice which side spent the week trying to talk across the dinner table and which side spent it yelling at the people who'd sit down.
France has a real crisis on its hands, with hundreds of thousands of people in the streets, a historic landmark in ruins, and a government struggling to keep order. An American network could have explained what it means for America. CNN put Ana Navarro on the air to say it looked like January 6th.