Former Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera announced in a lengthy post to X on Monday that he is backing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
"With three weeks to go until Election Day, Donald J. Trump stands a reasonable chance of becoming the 47th President of the United States," wrote Rivera. "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."
Rivera, a conservative, has sometimes broken with the GOP and his fellow right-wing commentators on air, going after Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) for pushing Trump's baseless election conspiracy theories and criticizing his network for parroting uncritically what price-gouging energy companies said about gas prices.
In 2016, Rivera explained, he "marveled" at Trump, and for years "gave him the benefit of most doubts" through numerous scandals and controversies.
"The last time President Trump and I spoke was Friday, November 13, 2020, when he called me at home," wrote Rivera. "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."
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"If you are a Republican, Donald Trump has made a liar of you," wrote Rivera. "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."
At the end of the day, Rivera said, nothing else outweighs that, and he cannot support putting Trump back in power.
Perhaps you feel differently, Rivera added: "Better to admit he lost last time but that you don’t care because a Harris presidency would be a disaster, or you admire his defiance in the face of an assassin’s bullet. Just don’t 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," he concluded.