In what might justify the sellout of the year award, Geraldo Rivera told the San Juan, Puerto Rico Mayor that he did not see people dying post-Hurricane Maria.
While reporting live from a relief effort station, the FOX News journalist trolled Carmen Yulín Cruz at the worst possible time. In a video interview he challenged her recent concerns of possible genocide seemingly taking Donald Trump’s view on Puerto Rico’s lack of mismanagement.
Cruz gave an update stating “there are all people at all municipalities literally starving, dehydrating. We have had our hospital try to go back to speed but then the electricity goes off and we have to do all the bacteria testing, which takes three to four days.” Rivera rudely interrupted saying “but are people dying? I’ve been traveling around, I don’t see people dying. I spoke to the doctors, they say they saw 53 patients and they had a person who was septic, but nobody dying.”
Thankfully the courageous politician checked the horribly mustached pundit tactfully. “Dying is a continuum. If you don’t get fed for seven, eight days and you’re a child, you are dying. If you have 11 people like we took out of a nursing home, severely dehydrated, you are dying” she explained.
But like the clown that he is, Rivera refused to admit wrong in his questioning or show any class for that matter when closing out the interview. “That’s part one of my interview with the mayor who, as you heard, still claims that people are dying although the death count is 16, has been 16 since the storm. I could find no one dying.”
You can view the clip in its entirety below.
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