Ex-Fox News host: Trump a 'pretty good president' — who committed  ‘unforgivable’ actions

Former longtime Fox News host Geraldo Rivera said Tuesday night that his estrangement from his ex-friend Donald Trump – and his refusal to support the former president in November – stems from “what he did in the wake of the 2020 election" which Rivera called "unforgivable."

“We can't lose sight of that,” Rivera said. “He tried to distort the constitutional process. He tried to strong-arm the republic. He tried to, with Mike Pence, to make Pence be more loyal to him than to the Constitution of the United States. He is a sore loser.”

Rivera, now with NewsNation, made the comments in an appearance on CNN’s “OutFront” Tuesday night, where he told host Erin Burnett that Trump’s actions surrounding the 2020 election – from his claims of election fraud to the events of Jan. 6 – “called into question that very foundation stone of our democracy, and to me that is unforgivable.”

“President Trump and I have been estranged since very shortly after the last election because of his refusal to admit defeat. I worry what happens next? What happens if he loses, I worry and if he wins, I worry.”

Rivera throughout the years before the 2020 election has staunchly defended Trump, whom he called not only a “longtime friend” but somebody who he believes “was a pretty good president.”

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“He did a pretty good job with China and with the economy, with tariffs and so forth,” Rivera said. “I was proud to call him my friend and proud of the times that we spent together.”

He concluded the interview by telling Burnett that Trump came to the realization that “if he were to demonize undocumented immigrants” he could “drive a train right from that ambition and that realization all the way to the White House.”

“And now he is doubling down on it in a way that is so scary,” Rivera said. “The way he speaks of Latino immigrants is so blatantly racist it is intolerable.”

Watch the clip below or at this link.