Former Friend Geraldo Rivera Compares Trump to Hitler
Former Friend Geraldo Rivera Compares Trump to Hitler.
Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera has lashed out at Donald Trump for claiming migrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’ expressing his shock at the ‘extraordinary, hateful, Hitler-like quote.’
Trump drew astonished backlash from critics after making the remark in a recent video interview, where he repeated his prior claims that migrants are criminals, insane, terrorists, and diseased.
‘Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists,’ Trump said in the interview with The National Pulse, a right-leaning website.
‘It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have,’ he said.
Rivera, a veteran journalist and commentator, slammed the comment as ‘disgusting’ in a post on X, adding: ‘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.’
Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera has lashed out at Donald Trump for claiming migrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’ calling the remark ‘Hitler-like’
In a video post, Rivera continued: ‘That’s a quote — an extraordinary, hateful Hitler-like quote from the former president of the United States. That is shocking. It is outrageous.
‘It harkens back to the mid 19th century, when the Irish immigrants were accused of bringing all sorts of diseases from Europe to the United States.
‘It’s one of the reasons that they were hated by people, and then every successive wave of immigrants: the Italians, the Chinese, the Jewish, the Eastern Europeans.
‘Now, the Latin Americans are always accused of bringing diseases, a fact that is absolutely not true. In fact, when you look at the people, the largely Latino people who are coming undocumented to this country, they are walking fifteen hundred miles.
‘How many Americans could walk fifteen hundred miles, could walk through the jungles and cross rivers and so forth in search of a better life for themselves and their children?
‘To just — and to think that this guy was my friend. That is shocking. I’m so embarrassed. President Trump, former president, could say something like “poisoning the blood of our country”. That is absolutely indefensible. It is disgusting.’
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung hit back at critics in a statement, saying: ‘That’s a normal phrase that is used in everyday life – in books, television, movies, and in news articles.
‘For anyone to think that is racist or xenophobic is living in an alternate reality consumed with non-sensical outrage.’
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the nation’s oldest Latino civil rights organization, also slammed Trump’s words as remin
Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera has lashed out at Donald Trump for claiming migrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’ expressing his shock at the ‘extraordinary, hateful, Hitler-like quote.’
Trump drew astonished backlash from critics after making the remark in a recent video interview, where he repeated his prior claims that migrants are criminals, insane, terrorists, and diseased.
‘Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists,’ Trump said in the interview with The National Pulse, a right-leaning website.
‘It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have,’ he said.
Rivera, a veteran journalist and commentator, slammed the comment as ‘disgusting’ in a post on X, adding: ‘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.’
Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera has lashed out at Donald Trump for claiming migrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’ calling the remark ‘Hitler-like’
In a video post, Rivera continued: ‘That’s a quote — an extraordinary, hateful Hitler-like quote from the former president of the United States. That is shocking. It is outrageous.
‘It harkens back to the mid 19th century, when the Irish immigrants were accused of bringing all sorts of diseases from Europe to the United States.
‘It’s one of the reasons that they were hated by people, and then every successive wave of immigrants: the Italians, the Chinese, the Jewish, the Eastern Europeans.
‘Now, the Latin Americans are always accused of bringing diseases, a fact that is absolutely not true. In fact, when you look at the people, the largely Latino people who are coming undocumented to this country, they are walking fifteen hundred miles.
‘How many Americans could walk fifteen hundred miles, could walk through the jungles and cross rivers and so forth in search of a better life for themselves and their children?
‘To just — and to think that this guy was my friend. That is shocking. I’m so embarrassed. President Trump, former president, could say something like “poisoning the blood of our country”. That is absolutely indefensible. It is disgusting.’
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung hit back at critics in a statement, saying: ‘That’s a normal phrase that is used in everyday life – in books, television, movies, and in news articles.
‘For anyone to think that is racist or xenophobic is living in an alternate reality consumed with non-sensical outrage.’
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the nation’s oldest Latino civil rights organization, also slammed Trump’s words as remin