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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeraldo Rivera just endorsed Kamala Harris
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@GeraldoRivera
Sore Loser
With three weeks to go until Election Day, Donald J. Trump stands a reasonable chance of becoming the 47th President of the United States. Despite assassination attempts, impeachments, special counsels, felony convictions and hundreds of millions in civil penalties, most polls show his race against V.P. Kamala Harris is too close to call.
The first time he ran for president in 2016, he was coming off the last season of Celebrity Apprentice. I had a front row seat as a finalist on that final season and marveled at his audacity with his checkered past to seek the highest office in the land. Then, in the blink of an eye, he went from novice to formidable challenger to victorious over Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
As President he was a loyal friend, who allowed regular access. My resulting coverage gave him the benefit of most doubts. His presidency was underrated. Throughout his first big scandal in office, the 2017-2019 Mueller Investigation into allegations Trump conspired with Russia to undermine our political process, I stuck with him, deeply suspicious of constant efforts to undermine his Administration.
The last time President Trump and I spoke was Friday, November 13, 2020, when he called me at home. It was ten days after his narrow lost to Joe Biden. He was calling to get my take on the controversies surrounding the election, which appeared to have been decided by a handful of votes in several states. I asked him what he would do if the vote count remained against him. 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.
It never did. Instead, President Trump embarked on an increasingly menacing campaign to discredit the 2020 election. With a motley supporting cast of increasingly fringe characters, he careened from one bizarre theory to the next, offering no meaningful proof, that he had been robbed by the Democrats.
None exists. 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.
In furtherance of that Big Lie, on January 6, 2021, Trump incited and unleashed the violent attack on the center of democracy, the U.S. Capitol for which he was Impeached. 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. Pence refused to put Trump ahead of the Constitution. Trump stabbed the Constitution in the back.
Maybe you are inclined to vote for the former president anyway, because he says he will cut your taxes or build the border wall or pull out of NATO or put tariffs on China. However, you justify voting for Trump, adopting his big lie about the stolen election makes you a liar.
Better to admit he lost last time but that you dont care because a Harris presidency would be a disaster, or you admire his defiance in the face of an assassins bullet. Just dont pretend that he got robbed in 2020. That is a lie. Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution. That is why I am voting for Kamala Harris to be our 47th President.
9:13 AM · Oct 14, 2024
TheProle
(2,779 posts)Attilatheblond
(3,962 posts)Jerry is such a sad sad chap.
obamanut2012
(27,666 posts)Evolve Dammit
(18,264 posts)Chin music
(24,000 posts)they're 'tied'......
Sure.
trmp got away w terrorizing people and his 'people' follow suit. Must be those long long prison sentences for j6 that would've happened in any other country...but here.
He cried whenever things 'weren't fair'. And got meritless accommodations for same.
And here we are.
Glad Geraldo came around.
hlthe2b
(105,627 posts)I will take the votes (and the negative attention to TSF)
Hugin
(34,389 posts)Oinking and rattling the windows in their sills.
MineralMan
(147,216 posts)kansasobama
(1,374 posts)That is a shocker.
Shermann
(8,455 posts)tavernier
(13,136 posts)He makes it sound like denying the election was the only thing rump ever did wrong. What about stealing our state secrets? Help from Russia to beat Hillary? Promises to Putin to end NATO? Packing the SCOTUS to take rights away from women?
I could go on for a long time.
Thanks Geraldo, but he fooled you too with his fake loyalty. Had you been a true journalist, you would have seen right through that.
bucolic_frolic
(46,252 posts)He was with Trump, he was against Trump, he focuses his non-endorsement endorsement of Harris as based on the Lie.
Geraldo remains as empty as Al Capone's vault.
msfiddlestix
(7,683 posts)highplainsdem
(51,786 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,683 posts)Jmb 4 Harris-Walz
(562 posts)Boomerproud
(8,311 posts)nt
Cha
(303,825 posts)Talitha
(7,354 posts)LAS14
(14,347 posts)ificandream
(10,266 posts)He really doesn't sound all that convinced.
delisen
(6,359 posts)Otherwise he would be lying low until after the election.
yellowcanine
(36,238 posts)Trying desperately to get his 15 minutes of game back.
GoodRaisin
(9,483 posts)Especially if they vote for him because he says he will cut their taxes, which he will forget all about the day after the election is over. Except for his billionaire friends.
DoBW
(1,833 posts)dobleremolque
(871 posts)Hmmmm. I wonder what to have for dinner.......
NNadir
(34,302 posts)Kurt Vonnegut's son in law, if only for a short time. I would imagine Vonnegut was appalled.
To find that he was a Trump sycophant is unsurprising, but look, if among the worst Republicans there are some who will vote for Harris, I'll take them.
I find encouraging that some very nasty Republicans are doing this because their votrs count.
lark
(23,918 posts)Last I heard he was a loyal magat??
johnp3907
(3,841 posts)But it wasnt Geraldos fault.
DOH!
kimbutgar
(22,836 posts)And that to keep his reputation hes jumping from the orange a hole sinking ship.