Television personality Geraldo Rivera groveled during a CNN appearance where he said that he’s ashamed for ever being friends with former President Donald J. Trump whom he accused of channeling Hitler for his remarks about the migrant crisis.
The media moved seamlessly from another fishy story about Trump giving away nuclear submarine secrets to the latest ginned-up racial firestorm over the 2024 GOP frontrunner’s remarks about illegal aliens that he made during an interview with a right-leaning media outlet this week.
Rivera joined host Abby Phillip on Friday’s edition of “CNN Primetime” as leftists rushed to weaponize Trump’s remarks that the ongoing invasion is “poisoning the blood” of America to fire up their racist hate mobs by insisting that they were akin to something that the murderous Nazi dictator would have said.
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“I think it’s vile. I think it’s disgusting. It’s very disappointing, to sink to that level, it’s for me a personal embarrassment that we were friends for so long,” Rivera responded after he was asked for his take. “This language is racist, it is really disgusting… and… you know, some things cannot abide. We cannot abide certain things and he has crossed the line. I beseech his followers to listen to what he said about poison blood.”
“Who else used that kind of language? That kind of poisonous rhetoric? It was the Nazis, and I hate to use Nazi or Hitler references, but it is impossible to miss the obvious parallels. Poison blood, it was a direct reference,” raved Geraldo. “He made a direct reference that the migrants, the immigrants, mostly Latinos now, may I say, are poisoning, polluting the blood of real Americans. It is intolerable. I mean it’s absolutely beyond the pale.”
“Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons, we know they come from mental institutions, insane asylums, we know they’re terrorists,” Trump told the National Pulse.
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“Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country, it’s poisoning the blood of our country,” he continued. “It’s so bad, and people are coming in with disease, people are coming in with every possible thing that you can have….” None of it was actually inaccurate, but the harsh language was just really hurtful to people’s feelings.
For a man who claimed that he hates to use “Nazi or Hitler references,” they easily rolled off of Rivera’s tongue in a video reaction to the interview that the longtime journalist posted to X, formerly known as Twitter before he showed up on CNN.
Former President Trump’s remark about undocumented immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country,” is disgusting. 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. pic.twitter.com/S7ZMYAJnOa
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) October 6, 2023
During his CNN appearance, Rivera also responded to a statement from Trump’s campaign that it was simply a “normal phrase” used in everyday life and not the hyperbolic summoning of demons of darkness that it is being portrayed as by those who are always on the attack against the former POTUS.
“Excuse me, I apologize to you and your audience, but I have to say that the spokesman’s excuse was absolute bullsh*t,” Rivera spat with contempt.
“It is lowdown and dirty. Give me a break. You know, normal, everyday discourse? Who talks about poison blood? Who talks about that?” Geraldo continued. “Who says that an immigrant is poisoning— it is beyond. It really is beyond the beyond. It’s not— this is not appropriate discourse. This is not— this is not fair play. This is awful. Just awful.”
The brouhaha over Trump’s remarks about illegals comes as embittered failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called for his supporters to be rounded up and forced to undergo Soviet-style “formal deprogramming.” A chilling Newsweek report revealed that Joe Biden’s FBI is targeting Trump-supporting Republicans in advance of next year’s election, the most pivotal in the nation’s history.
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