Geraldo Rivera Teases Possibly Joining CNN After Leaving Fox News

Former Fox News contributor and co-host Geraldo Rivera said he would be a “good fit” for a permanent position at CNN.

For 22 years, the 80-year-old was a fixture on Fox News, where he often butted heads with the more conservative hosts and commentators. Rivera has made nearly a dozen appearances on rival cable station CNN since leavin

g that outlet in June. The publication asked Rivera if he might be planning to work more permanently for his former competitor.

While making a joke about how he might benefit from an agent, Rivera clarified that there have been no official talks regarding his potential employment with CNN. No one from CNN has commented on it.

“I think it would be a good fit,” he reportedly texted about the possibility, according to the New York Daily News.

On July’s episode of ABC’s “The View,” the veteran host admitted that he should have quit Fox News sooner but lacked the guts to do so. Rivera said that she had a “toxic” relationship with a coworker at Fox News and that the troubled network went through “a moral crisis” after the 2020 presidential election due to the dissemination of false information that led to various lawsuits.

In July, Rivera interviewed former CNN host Chris Cuomo on NewsNation for his first primetime appearance since departing Fox News. Cuomo remained with Fox News “for the money,” according to Rivera, who mentored him.

Rivera also recently spoke about Fox Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch during an appearance on CNN after Murdoch announced he was turning over control of the company to his son Lachlan Murdon.

Asked by host Laura Coates about his reaction to Rupert stepping down, Rivera — who left Fox News in July reportedly following an argument with host Greg Gutfeld — had good things to say about his former boss.

“Well, he’s the founding father, not just of Fox News, but of a media empire that has made him one of the richest people on Earth. He’s a genius, I think,” Rivera said. His major discovery is that half of the population of the English-speaking world believes that the mainstream media ignores them when it comes to issues like abortion, immigration, gun control, and climate change. He discovered that he created this empire to serve that population, it has served him well.”

Continuing, Rivera noted that while Murdoch “got jammed up in that whole Dominion stuff,” a reference to Fox News’ recent defamation settlement with the voting machine company, he added that the former CEO has “always been nice to me, kind to me, generous.”

“When they cut my salary in half, when they had the big cut back before the pandemic, I went up to say, I said, ‘Hey boss, this is not right. I went into combat for you and this and that,’ and he called downstairs, and he said, ‘Okay, restore part of that cut.’ So, I see him as a good boss. A vibrant, charismatic guy, still full of verve and energy at 92 years old,” he said, noting that Murdoch also “surrounded himself with brilliant people.”

He then argued:

I think it does a disservice to think that it was all sleazy opportunism because I don’t believe that he believed that. I believe that he was sincerely motivated. He could have, for example, when Fox News was being created, gone the way of other Fox syndicated programs like A Current Affair and gone tabloid and celebrities and all that TMZ kind of stuff.

Instead, he went to serve a conservative audience, and while I disagree with almost everything in all of their positions, the majority of talent at Fox News, I appreciate the fact that half the people believe, for example, that abortion is a moral wrong, or that gun rights are absolute, or that immigration is bad, or that the climate is not changing. They’re very skeptical about that. So, you know, those are people who deserve to have their media.

Shortly after leaving Fox, Rivera went on ABC’s “The View” to complain about some of his former on-air colleagues.

At one point during the interview, Rivera said he had a “very toxic” relationship with a former fellow co-host of “The Five,” but he didn’t name any names. Unlike Tucker Carlson, who was unceremoniously taken off the air in late April, Rivera got a nice on-air send-off that included cake and fellow Fox personalities donning fake mustaches.

Though he didn’t identify anyone, Rivera’s departure came after sparring on-air for months with Gutfeld, with the two often getting into shouting matches on the air.

The 79-year-old said while he never did fit in ideologically at Fox News, he said the network offered to move him to another show after it became apparent he could no longer do The Five. But he declined, saying he would not accept being demoted from the most popular cable news show on TV.

“If you fired me from the No. 1 show, then I’m going to quit. And that’s basically what happened,” Rivera said.

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