Fox’s Geraldo Rivera: It's “very dishonest” to interrupt Trump's coronavirus press briefings to fact-check his claims
Rivera: Doing a live fact-check of Trump is “a disservice to their audience”
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Fox’s Geraldo Rivera: It's “very dishonest” to interrupt Trump's coronavirus press briefings to fact-check his claims
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From the April 15, 2020, edition of Premiere Radio's The Sean Hannity Show
GERALDO RIVERA: I tweeted out today to my colleagues at MSNBC and CNN that I thought it was really amateurish of them to not carry the President's task force briefings, that they were doing not only harming themselves in terms of ratings but doing a disservice to their audience.
What they should do, and granted that they disagree with the President on these various points, philosophical or political almost --
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Geraldo with all due respect they are not your colleagues, they have spent every waking minute of every day for over three years hating this man irrationally and lying.
RIVERA: I'm being gracious to get to this point, I editorialized, I tweeted that what they should do is-- if they want to fact check him or if they want to like, you know, really give him a hard time and roast him over the coals, let the audience see what he said and then do it. Don't preempt him and then try to categorize or define what he was saying, it's very dishonest and it’s not doing your audience a service.