杰拉尔多·里维拉猛烈抨击特朗普的白宫媒体禁令，并指出一个令人“震惊”的讽刺之处
要点速览
- •杰拉尔多·里维拉公开批评特朗普总统将CNN、MS NOW和Politico排除在白宫记者团之外的做法，并在9月25日的X帖子中称该禁令时机糟糕且违宪。
- •禁令生效于特朗普与中国国家主席习近平在白宫会晤前几天，迈克尔·麦克福尔表示令他震惊的是，被排除的美国媒体被拒之门外，而中国官方媒体却获得采访权限。
- •里维拉与特朗普的关系可追溯到20世纪70年代，他在特朗普总统任期内一直支持并为其辩护，直到特朗普拒绝接受2020年大选结果后与之决裂。
- •在2024年接受莫莉·钟法斯特采访时，里维拉解释称他为民主党候选人卡玛拉·哈里斯背书，并指控特朗普煽动了1月6日对美国国会大厦的袭击。
- •里维拉在Fox News工作了二十多年，于2023年离开，为其自1970年始于WABC-TV的媒体生涯画上句号，其间曾参与ABC News节目并主持脱口秀《Geraldo》。
资深电视记者、前Fox News评论员杰拉尔多·里维拉（Geraldo Rivera）曾与唐纳德·特朗普总统关系十分密切。但现年83岁的里维拉在特朗普拒绝接受美国2020年总统大选结果后与其决裂。如今，这位长期从事媒体工作的播音员正猛烈批评特朗普将三大媒体机构——CNN、MS NOW和Politico——排除在白宫记者团之外的决定。白宫记者团是代表更广泛新闻界报道总统的一小批轮值记者。
这项禁令出台于特朗普在白宫会见来访的中国国家主席习近平前几天。迈克尔·麦克福尔（Michael McFaul）——他曾在前总统巴拉克·奥巴马任内担任美国驻俄罗斯大使——在MS NOW的节目上表示，令他深感震惊的是，CNN、MS NOW和Politico的记者被拒于白宫之外，而中国官方媒体成员却获得了采访权限，正如Alternet此前报道的那样。将个别媒体排除在记者团之外，多年来这类争议一再诉诸联邦法院，新闻自由倡导人士也一直主张，政府不应决定哪些新闻机构可以报道总统。
里维拉在9月25日星期五于X（前身为Twitter）上发帖写道："President Trump's ban on WH media was as badly timed as it was Unconstitutional. He wanted maximum exposure of his grand summit with the Chinese leader. He ended up playing in the dark to an audience of nobody."
里维拉自20世纪60年代以来一直从事媒体工作。这位土生土长的纽约人于1970年加入纽约市的WABC-TV担任记者，后来因在ABC News的"20/20"和"Nightline"等全国性节目中的工作而闻名。他的日间脱口秀节目"Geraldo"于1987年首播，持续播出11年。此后他在Fox News工作了二十多年，直到2023年离开该电视台。
在2024年接受记者莫莉·钟法斯特（Molly Jong-Fast）为Interview Magazine进行的采访中，里维拉解释了他为何转而反对特朗普，并为民主党候选人卡玛拉·哈里斯（Kamala Harris）竞选总统背书。
里维拉回忆道："Our relationship dated back to the 1970s, when he was coming up in the real estate business. I met him when he was trying to rehabilitate the old Commodore Hotel on 42nd Street, which was a haven for junkies and hookers and crime and the rest of it. And he succeeded. I chronicled that in many ways. We went to the fights together, hung out at Trump Tower. Fox was just a few blocks away. I did not vote for him in 2016, but I supported him. And he was very generous, very gracious, inviting me to the White House, giving me access interviews. I did several hour-long interviews with him during his presidency. During the tumultuous four years, I defended him against what I thought was an unfair onslaught on the Russia business."
里维拉感叹，当特朗普拒绝接受2020年大选结果时，总统越过了危险的界限。
里维拉告诉钟法斯特："Every day, he got worse and worse, more and more radicalized. The people around him, increasingly a motley crew: Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Gen. Mike Flynn — just fringy kind of people. And he dug in. He went to Georgia, if you recall, beat the Republican Party's chances for the Senate there with his irrational behavior and his narcissism. Then, of course, you get to January 6, when it seemed to that he incited and then unleashed the attack on the United States Capitol, the soul of our democracy, in his flamboyantly irrational and illegal assault on democracy itself."
