Geraldo Rivera Breaks Down ‘Wicked Effective’ Tactic That Won Donald Trump The Election
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The former Fox News personality described the president-elect as "Godzilla in a suit" and "gaudy realization of the American Dream."
Geraldo Rivera wrote on X, formerly Twitter, about how he believes his onetime friend Donald Trump decisively beat Democratic rival Kamala Harris (who Rivera endorsed) in the 2024 presidential election.
Harris may have been a history-making candidate, Rivera acknowledged in the lengthy post. But Trump proved “he is in a league of his own, the real Teflon Don” and as a “force of nature” was “supremely confident and strategic” with his strategy of staying out of jail and demonizing “illegal immigrants, which he did with gusto,” said the former Fox News personality.
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Trump “made the undocumented synonymous with rapists and murderers,” Rivera continued. “They were poisoning the blood of the country, vermin, animals, dog and cat eaters from floating islands of garbage. He and his mouthpieces appealed unabashedly to every prejudice and fear of the other.”
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