Geraldo hits Biden for ‘pitiful’ speech as Afghanistan crumbles: ‘What the hell did COVID have to do with’ it
Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera called out President Joe Biden for a “pitiful” and irrelevant speech instructing Americans about forthcoming coronavirus booster shots as a geopolitical and humanitarian catastrophe intensifies in Afghanistan under his watch.Rivera said on “The Five” Biden’s speech Wednesday was disjointed and the president was “blinking and missing words,” concluding his remarks and abruptly leaving the podium as the press tried to question him.”Can I just say something about the president’s Ill-timed speech? It was pitiful,” Rivera said. “It was pathetic. I try to give him every due respect. He’s the president of the United States. I think he’s a nice person,” Rivera said.He added that the speech resembled an overt attempt to distract the American people from a new and burgeoning crisis.”What the hell that COVID speech had to do with the price of beans, I don’t know. He delivered it as if someone said, ‘Here’s a good idea. Why don’t you speak about the COVID booster and take their minds off of what they’re seeing on the TV news.'” Rivera said.The host observed, by contrast in their press briefing earlier Wednesday, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and the defense secretary, Gen. Lloyd
