Geraldo Slams Trump After MSG Rally: ‘This Is Not Politics… This Is Hate Speech’
Geraldo Rivera told CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer that former President Donald Trump had “disqualified” himself with Hispanic voters after Sunday night’s MAGA rally at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Rivera complained about the rhetoric used by Trump and other speakers at the event – including roast comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who equated Puerto Rico to a “floating pile of garbage.”
On CNN’s The Situation Room, Blitzer welcomed Rivera aboard to discuss the event, its backlash, and next week’s election.
“Like all of us, you heard some really vile, racist, very hateful rhetoric by some of Trump’s allies at that rally at Madison Square Garden last night,” Blitzer noted. “And the rhetoric was especially vile about Latino voters.”
He asked Rivera, “What do you make of that?”
Rivera replied, “The principal reason why I do not support former President Trump is that he can’t be trusted to honor the Constitution.” He continued:
But my goodness, the vile, racist remarks that he’s been directing at migrants, principally the Hispanic migrants, there are also the Haitians eating dogs. Makes him really an outlier, a person who could do and say almost anything to get elected. And when I heard the comedian, the so-called comedian at the rally in Madison Square Garden, the first thing I thought of when I heard him was, How dare he? A floating island of garbage?
And when you take the president’s rhetoric and overlay it – the poisoning of the blood of the nation, that migrants, Hispanic migrants, commit murder because they have it in their genes – you know, a mass deportation on day one. There is no reason a Latino American should vote for Donald Trump. He has disqualified himself by surrounding himself with hateful, ugly rhetoric. These racist remarks have divided this nation. They’ve made people feel embattled. They’ve made people worry about their future, their children. It is something that is beyond the pale. This is not politics, Wolf. This is hate speech.
Rivera concluded Sunday’s events would be remembered as the end of Trump’s campaign.
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