Navarro referenced actress Cheryl Hines in her criticism of Kennedy after reports alleged that he and writer Olivia Nuzzi became close.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might bark for mercy after The View star Ana Navarro compared him to a dog amid reports of an alleged scandal for the politician who recently dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Donald Trump.

Navarro and her View colleagues discussed Monday morning a report that Kennedy developed a personal relationship with New York magazine journalist Olivia Nuzzi. The Republican panelist echoed her cohosts’ sentiments on why the fallout was “hitting her and not him,” which moderator Whoopi Goldberg questioned at the top of the episode.

“I think the reason that she’s paying more consequences is because RFK, I kind of think, like, everybody knows by now that he’s a dog and a ho, and there’s no consequences, it’s like with Donald Trump. It’s baked in,” Navarro estimated. “He’s had a long, long record of philandering for many decades. His wife [Cheryl Hines] knows it and seems to be okay with it, so what are the consequences for him?” (A representative for Hines, Kennedy’s third wife, tells Entertainment Weekly that the actress is “not commenting” on The View cohost’s statements.)

Ana Navarro on ‘The View’ ; RFK, Jr.ABC; Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty

Navarro also said she felt that Nuzzi, the publication’s Washington, D.C., correspondent, “had a lot more to lose” when allegations of the relationship broke, which forced New York magazine to place her on leave while an investigation was conducted.

Still, while Navarro said that the alleged interaction puts Nuzzi’s “writings in a different perspective,” she still believes in the writer’s right to a personal life.

“If not for that, you can be freaky,” Navarro joked. “[But] not if there’s a conflict of interest in your job.”

“That piece she wrote of RFK was scathing of him, she didn’t pull punches. I agree, it blurred ethical lines, I don’t agree with what she did, I think she’ll acknowledge it and take responsibility, but every time I see a headline that says ‘Olivia Nuzzi scandal,’ no, [it should be] ‘RFK scandal,'” cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin also stated on the show. “A former presidential candidate… who engaged in this who’s now a top surrogate to the Republican nominee for president, it goes back to the sexism that we fall into.”

In a statement posted to New York magazine’s website, the publication did not explicitly name Kennedy, though it indicated that Nuzzi “acknowledged to the magazine’s editors that she had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign,” which it called “a violation of the magazine’s standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures.”

The statement continued: “Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign. An internal review of her published work has found no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias. She is currently on leave from the magazine, and the magazine is conducting a more thorough third-party review. We regret this violation of our readers’ trust.”

A spokesperson for Kennedy told Status, the outlet that broke news of the alleged relationship, that, “Mr. Kennedy only met Olivia Nuzzi once in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a hit piece.” EW has reached out to Kennedy’s team for comment.