Liberal journalist Geraldo Rivera sprung to support the First Lady’s condemnation of Jimmy Kimmel’s ominous, hateful comments regarding her and her family on his late-night television show prior to the assassination attempt on her husband’s life Saturday at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Thursday, in a foreboding “comedy” skit about the upcoming dinner, Kimmel joked about assassination of President Donald Trump, saying:
“Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”
“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country” and feeds the nation’s violent “political sickness,” Melania Trump responded Monday on X.com:
“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.”
“A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him,” the First Lady added.
In his post, Rivera defended the First Lady’s comments and expressed sympathy for the pain Kimmel caused her:
"Regarding the First Lady’s condemnation of Kimmel’s latest incitement, think what it must be like to have total strangers wishing you and your family dead.”
But, Rivera went further than labeling Kimmel a merely coward – by branding him “a sadist” in disguise:
“Trump can be a rude provocateur. Kimmel is a sadist masquerading as a comedian.”
