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May 26, 2021 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
06:39
Wow: Geraldo Just Got Owned On Live TV - Again
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Okay, guys, we're gonna do Epic TV Meltdown of the Week, and the award goes to Geraldo Rivera.
Now, I love Geraldo.
He's a friend. I've worked closely with him on Celebrity Apprentice back in the day, someone I really like as an individual.
Sometimes I think he takes, like, the contrarian take just to do it, just to perhaps have something to argue about.
But here he is on Sean Hannity's show with Dan Bongino and It seems to be saying, like, Israel responding to attacks on Hamas, a designated terror organization, who hides their missiles amongst civilians and then attracts Israeli fire, killing civilians, that that's somehow the Israelis' fault.
That it's somehow their problem.
I mean, this is one of the dumber takes that there is out there, but The meltdown and the back and forth is epic and I think it shows, perhaps everyone, some of the frustrations that's going on there if he truly believes this and isn't just taking a contrarian point just to make a little sensational TV. But this is my must-see TV moment of the week and I think you guys will enjoy it.
It is shocking and outrageous to me that in all the discussions of what's happening in Israel, the fact that Palestinians are being killed at the rate of 15 or 20 times the death toll among the Israelis, including children, is absolutely...
Geraldo? Geraldo, let me stop you.
It is abhorrent to me. The Palestinians are digging themselves out from under the collapse of their buildings.
How about the terrorist organization Hamas stop firing those rockets from hospitals and schools and densely populated areas?
Why don't we?
No, no. Because they're the ones that fired first.
If American city got hurt, it would be all America, all hands on deck.
And if innocent people die, you blame the people that stormed.
There are dozens of Palestinian children dead.
There are dozens of Palestinian children dead.
And whose fault is that? With ammunition provided to Israel by the United States without even a demand for a ceasefire.
I demand a ceasefire.
I demand my president to demand a ceasefire.
Israel needs to win the war against terrorism and terrorists that are firing rockets at their people.
Dan Bongino. Let's kill all these children.
Dan. Peraldo, you do this every time.
This is such garbage, and I'm really getting sick of it.
You play this emotional game with the audience and use your position of responsibility to put out misinformation and BS. You know, stop attacking me, punk.
You did it on the police thing. Address the issue.
Do you have the guts to address the issue and not address it?
You can't control yourself, can you?
You didn't come on this show to attack me.
You can't control yourself. You came on the show to talk about the issue.
Because again, you're using your position of authority here to say things that are absolutely outrageous.
Geraldo, let him talk. You're an uncontrolled lunatic.
I'm sorry. Because you can't go on the air.
I'm an out-of-control lunatic. Can you calm down?
Yeah, you really need to calm down.
I'm a 10-time Emmy winner with deep experience in the Middle East.
Have you ever even been there?
I've covered every war since 1973.
When he stops talking, I do have a point for you.
If your point is about me, I'm not going to stop.
If your point is going to be about me, I'm not going to stop.
Geraldo Rivera does not understand that Hamas doesn't believe in Israel's right to exist.
Hamas wants the Jews dead.
And what does he do?
The same thing with the police issue.
He makes this an emotional thing, and he says, the Palestinian children.
Of course we care about Palestinian children.
You know the way we say it?
Yeah, I haven't heard you say it.
We incentivize the terror group Hamas to not fire rockets indiscriminately into Israel.
And it would stop immediately.
Your debate on...
You are so misinformed on this.
It's pathetic. It's a bloodthirsty, savage terror group.
Let me calm the waters here. May I respond?
Let me calm the waters here.
Geraldo, who started this war?
Who started firing the rockets?
And who's firing them? Where do you want to go?
You want to go back to 1948, 1967, 1973?
You want to go back to the 48 Peace Partition, the 67-73 war?
And yes, I've been to Israel.
I've been to the border with Gaza.
I've covered every war since 1973 until 2010.
Kids can't play in an outdoor playground because they can't get in a bunker.
They play in indoor bunker playgrounds.
I've seen the rockets, 10,000 in one city in 10 years.
A Palestinian life is exactly equal to an Israeli life or an American life.
Who do you blame for firing the rockets first?
Who do you blame for firing it from densely populated areas and hospitals and schools?
This current chapter of this ongoing violence started when Israeli cops raided the Aqsa Mosque in the old city of Jerusalem.
Oh, get out of here. You're just lying.
It is one of the most sacred places.
You don't know what you're talking about.
It is one of the most sacred places in the...
Listen to this guy.
This guy doesn't... Have you ever been?
Have you been at war?
I've been there many times.
I'm showing video of me there.
No, but you haven't either.
That's the interesting thing.
I have been there multiple times.
That tunnel right there, that was built with Israeli and American money and cement.
And that cement was meant for hospitals and schools, guys.
That cement right there.
60 feet underground tunnels so that these terrorists can sneak in the dark of the night and kill Israelis and commit acts of terror.
Why don't you ever show the dead Palestinian children?
Why don't you ever show the video of the dead Palestinian children?
Because if I ever stepped foot in Gaza, I'd be dead.
It's like they don't exist.
You don't even understand the history.
The Palestinian children are being killed and they don't exist.
Geraldo, you don't even understand your own history.
Geraldo, who controlled that Palestinian area from 48 to 67?
The Jordanians. No American weapons used to kill children.
Stop it. So they can kill more Jews?
Are you nuts? All right, we'll leave it there.
Right, so they can rearm and kill more Jews.
This is great. All right, enough.
Mediaite has their headline.
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