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'Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution'-Geraldo
Posted by: Steve G.
Date: October 14, 2024 04:08PM
It's never too late.
Geraldo find's democracy, denounces Trump and endorses Harris.


Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera has spectacularly withdrawn his support for Donald Trump and renounced his previous MAGA beliefs.

Rivera took to X, formerly Twitter, to share a lengthy statement lambasting his former friend Trump for his unwillingness to accept the results of the 2020 election.

'Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution,' the veteran journalist wrote on Monday.

'That is why I am voting for Kamala Harris to be our 47th President.'

Geraldo recalled Trump being a 'loyal friend' to him during his presidency, which he called 'underrated.'

But he noted the two have not spoken since a phone call in November, 2020 - just days after Joe Biden won the election.

Rivera said Trump assured him that he would recognize the electoral results, so he was disappointed when the president never did.

'As I reported on Fox News that same morning, Friday the 13th, he told me he was a reasonable man and would do the right thing if that time came,' Rivera wrote.

'It never did. Instead, President Trump embarked on an increasingly menacing campaign to discredit the 2020 election.'

'If you are a Republican, Donald Trump has made a liar of you.

'He has coaxed and intimidated tens of millions into pretending he was reelected in 2020, and that the election was stolen.

Rivera, now 81, worked for Fox from 2001 to 2023. He hosted the tabloid talk show Geraldo from 1987 to 1998.

In his post, he also accused Trump of inciting a violent attack on the nation's 'center of democracy.'

'As his followers trashed that sacred space, he was on the phone urging Vice President Mike Pence essentially to overturn the will of the American people,' Rivera continued.

'Pence refused to put Trump ahead of the Constitution. Trump stabbed the Constitution in the back.'

Rivera concluded that those who decide to vote for Trump because of immigration or tax reduction are 'adopting his big lie.'

'You justify voting for Trump, adopting his big lie about the stolen election makes you a liar,' he wrote.
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Re: 'Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution'-Geraldo
Posted by: Steve G.
Date: October 14, 2024 04:10PM
In 2023, he told The View he would 'dedicate whatever energy I have left in the profession to ensure that he is not reelected president ever.'

During the same interview, Rivera said he and Trump had been close for decades.

Rivera has also gone after Trump over his rhetoric about immigrants, particularly after the Republican claimed migrants were 'poisoning the blood of our country.'

The commentator slammed the comment as 'disgusting' in a post on X, adding: 'Not only does it harken back to the Nazi-era, it is also part of the shameful, vile, centuries old tradition of claiming falsely that immigrants carry diseases.'

In a video post, Rivera continued: 'That's a quote -- an extraordinary, hateful Hitler-like quote from the former president of the United States. That is shocking. It is outrageous.

'It harkens back to the mid 19th century, when the Irish immigrants were accused of bringing all sorts of diseases from Europe to the United States.

'It's one of the reasons that they were hated by people, and then every successive wave of immigrants: the Italians, the Chinese, the Jewish, the Eastern Europeans.

'Now, the Latin Americans are always accused of bringing diseases, a fact that is absolutely not true. In fact, when you look at the people, the largely Latino people who are coming undocumented to this country, they are walking fifteen hundred miles.

'How many Americans could walk fifteen hundred miles, could walk through the jungles and cross rivers and so forth in search of a better life for themselves and their children?

'To just -- and to think that this guy was my friend. That is shocking. I'm so embarrassed. President Trump, former president, could say something like 'poisoning the blood of our country'. That is absolutely indefensible. It is disgusting.'
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Re: 'Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution'-Geraldo
Posted by: Numo
Date: October 14, 2024 04:38PM
I've gotten very jaded about people like Rivera who built their reputations one way and then turn around to "see the light" later in their lives. He knew what he was doing all along and chose his path. Perhaps a lot of egotists begin to think about how they will be remembered as they begin to grapple with their own mortality.
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Re: 'Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution'-Geraldo
Posted by: bfd
Date: October 14, 2024 06:40PM


Geraldo and his nonsense should be permanently buried in Al Capone's Vault.
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Re: 'Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution'-Geraldo
Posted by: RgrF
Date: October 14, 2024 06:44PM
Geraldo long ago cashed in any influence he had outside of a Fox audience and Fox stopped payment on his small influence their.
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Re: 'Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution'-Geraldo
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: October 14, 2024 08:57PM
So everyone should disregard what he's saying, pay him no mind, since he was 'wrong' before he can't be 'right' now.

He, Liz Cheney, and others — applications for sainthood CANCELLED.

Ok, done.






I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.
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Re: 'Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution'-Geraldo
Posted by: abevilac
Date: October 15, 2024 05:01AM
I say better late than never. Get aboard the winning boat.
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Re: 'Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution'-Geraldo
Posted by: hal
Date: October 15, 2024 02:22PM
I've had it with Geraldo and the many 'Former Whitehouse staffers in the Trump administration'

they run to get cozy with power and then suddenly 'see the light' after we've been yelling at them for years and get nice cushy 'political analyst' jobs at MSNBC and such.
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Re: 'Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution'-Geraldo
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: October 15, 2024 04:26PM
get nice cushy 'political analyst' jobs at MSNBC and such.


That's the fault of MSNBC and such.

They said 'Hooray for our side' and then switched sides.

I'd much rather they switch and make it known that stay in Camp Enemy cheering for a wannabe despot.

If it's a given that there's nothing anyone can do at this point to help Harris win, then maybe I'll stay home.

No, I won't.

Every player in the Red Zone that leaves and makes it known gives me a little hope that maybe someone undecided will wake up as well.

To that end, anything that might budge the needle to Harris is a good thing.

Her winning is the only thing I GAF about.






I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.
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Re: 'Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution'-Geraldo
Posted by: wurm
Date: October 15, 2024 06:49PM
I'd much rather they switch and make it known than stay in Camp Enemy cheering for a wannabe despot.

That's the way I'm looking at it. Better late than never.

Well, as long as it's before the election.
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