Geraldo: ‘I Outsmarted Myself’ With ‘False Flag’ Pipe Bomb Theory

Geraldo Rivera participates in "The Celebrity Apprentice" panel at the NBC 2015 Winter TCA on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera attributed his own intelligence to his dabbling this week in the conspiracy theory that Democrats planted pipe bombs among their own to galvanize their voters and embarrass President Donald Trump.

As recently as Thursday night, Rivera was calling the bomb scares a “heavy-handed” “elaborate hoax” intended to make Trump look bad.

Cesar Sayoc, a middle-aged Floridian who drove a van plastered with pro-Trump, anti-Democrat decals, was arrested Friday morning in connection to the attempted attacks.

Watch Rivera’s comments here:

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  1. Avatar for tamdai tamdai says:

    Outsmarting Geraldo is such a low bar he can even do it to himself.

  2. Avatar for drtv drtv says:

    Geraldo: ‘I Outsmarted Myself’ With ‘False Flag’ Pipe Bomb Theory

    “Only I could outsmart myself,” he went on to say.

  3. “Out-smarted myself with the whole Al Capone’s Vault thing, too. And every other dumbass thing I’ve ever said or done … outsmarted myself there, too. If I wasn’t so fucking smart, people wouldn’t think I was so fucking dumb.”

  4. Geraldo Rivera must be pretty fucking stupid to be duped so easily by Geraldo Rivera.

  5. The mustache of misunderstanding. Why is this hack still around?

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