Fox Didn't Want Me
/Geraldo Rivera is opening up about his exit from Fox News.
Speaking to Chris Cuomo on News Nation, clearly, Rivera had grown tired of Fox News and they of him.
When asked about his exit from FNC, Rivera said, “…I had a toxic relationship with one of the cast members but more than that, they didn't want me. For whatever reason, you have to ask FOX the question of why they thought that my time had had come up, why they thought that it was time to move on from me. They started you know suspending me for you know, breaks with FOX policy. They started to cancelling my appearances. I was on two three times a week then biweekly then monthly. Then even those dried up. There was a lot of internal politics. The reason I surmise now, and it was, it was kind of creepy. There toward the end. I’m sorry it happened that way.”
Speaking about Tucker Carlson, Rivera pulled no punches, “I'll give you a concrete example because I don't like talking in generalities about some specific things. When Tucker Carlson came up with his bizarre notion that January 6 was an inside job that it was a federal informants who were causing trouble that it wasn't the insurrection that the rest of us saw. I said that that was a bunch of BS. I called BS on it. I got a call as soon as that was published in The Washington Post from Fox executives who said You're suspended. You're not supposed to speak to the press unless you clear it with us, which of course is, you know, catch 22 Because they never clear it. So, I wanted to speak out on that because I was very offended by it. Everyone knows that it was Donald Trump inciting an insurrection. He inspired those people. He directed those people, he encouraged those people, he sick those people on the capital of the United States, he stabbed the Constitution in the back. And I think that for FOX to pretend that, you know, there was an honest debate about January 6, or the 2020 election, I think, was obscene. And I think it needed to be said. And to your point, saying it time and time again was counterintuitive, or I guess against the direction that they were headed, but I was not going to go there. I think that what happened with Donald Trump disqualifies him from ever holding the presidency. I think Chris Christie, among others, would be a terrific President of the United States. I think that Donald Trump by doing what he did, by not only denying the election, but then inspiring and unleashing that insurrection, and then encouraging this division in the country has disqualified himself. And if I have any air left to make my point clear, it will be to that effect—that Donald Trump does not deserve should, not be ever again considered for the presidency of the United States.”
As Rivera said, he was on Fox News programs quite often, but after he saw the light on who Donald Trump is, he started to speak out about Trump and why he would no longer support him.
As he did that, Rivera’s appearances on Fox News continued to be fewer and fewer.
Fox News wants to keep the Trump base happy and they are willing to do what needs to be done to pander to the MAGA crowd.
Once Rivera turned on Trump, his days at Fox News were numbered.