Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera spectacularly withdrew his support for Donald Trump and renounced his former MAGA beliefs.
Rivera took to X, formerly Twitter, to share a lengthy statement criticizing 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 uphold the Constitution,” the veteran journalist wrote Monday.
“That’s why I’m voting for Kamala Harris as our 47th president.”
Geraldo recalled that Trump was a “loyal friend” to him during his presidency, which he described as “underrated.”
Geraldo Rivera condemned former President Donald Trump in a virulent message where he called him a loser for supporting Kamala Harris
But he noted that 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 he would recognize the election results, but was disappointed when the Republican 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.
‘He never did. Instead, President Trump embarked on an increasingly threatening campaign to discredit the 2020 election.
Rivera added: ‘If you are a Republican, Donald Trump has turned you into a liar.
‘He has persuaded and intimidated tens of millions into pretending that he was re-elected in 2020 and that the election was stolen.
The journalist then accused Trump of inciting a violent attack against the country’s “center of democracy.”
“While his followers were vandalizing that sacred space, he was on the phone urging Vice President Mike Pence 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 issues are ‘adopting his big lie.’
“You justify voting for Trump, embracing his big lie about a stolen election makes you a liar,” he wrote.
In the past, Rivera was friendly with Trump and even said he supported the former president, although he added that he does not ‘endorse’ him.
“I support the president, but I don’t support the president… he doesn’t always follow my advice,” Rivera told PEOPLE in 2020, as Newsweek noted.
“But I’m honored that the president of the United States, the most powerful person in the world, is listening to a (guy) who’s been around on TV for half a century.”
Rivera wrote on Monday: ‘I will vote for Kamala Harris to be our 47th president’
Geraldo recalled that Trump was a “loyal friend” to him during his presidency, which he described as “underrated.” They are seen in 2017.
However, Rivera’s opinion of Trump changed after the 2020 election.
In 2023, he told The View that he would “devote every energy I have left in the profession to ensuring that I am never re-elected president.”
During the same interview, Rivera said he and Trump had been close for decades.
Rivera has also attacked Trump for his rhetoric about immigrants, particularly after the Republican claimed that immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.”
The commenter called the comment “disgusting” in a post on diseases”. .’
In a video post, Rivera continued: “That’s a quote, an extraordinary, hateful, Hitler-esque quote from the former president of the United States.” That’s shocking. It’s outrageous.
Eric, Ivanka and Donald Trump meet with Rivera in 2012
‘This dates back to the mid-19th century, when Irish immigrants were accused of bringing all kinds of diseases from Europe to the United States.
‘It’s one of the reasons they were hated by the people, and then by each successive wave of immigrants: the Italians, the Chinese, the Jews, the Eastern Europeans.
‘Now Latin Americans are always accused of bringing diseases, which is absolutely false. In fact, when you look at the people, mostly Latino, who come to this country undocumented, they are walking fifteen hundred miles.
‘How many Americans could walk fifteen hundred miles, walk through jungles and cross rivers, etc., in search of a better life for themselves and their children?
‘Just… and to think that this guy was my friend. That’s shocking. I’m so embarrassed. President Trump, a former president, could say something like ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ That is absolutely indefensible. It’s disgusting.”
