Dan Abrams Calls Out Geraldo Rivera For MAGA Bomber Conspiracy: ‘What Are You Doing??’

Mediaite founder and ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams called out Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera for his insistence last week — which he later retracted — that the mail bomb scare may just be an “elaborate hoax.”

On his show on SiriusXM’s P.O.T.U.S. channel Thursday, Abrams pressed Rivera about the reasoning behind his remarks. Noting it was “not on the list of thing you want to talk about,” Abrams started by playing a clip of Rivera’s claims.

Speaking to Fox Business anchor Trish Regan last week, Rivera said in that clip played that “at the risk of sounding like a far right wing lunatic” he believes “this whole thing was an elaborate hoax.”

Then, Abrams followed it up by reading this tweet sent by Rivera on October 25:

Abrams then pointedly asked his guest: “Now you’ve apologized, but you know, what are you doing??”

“Why did I do it at all?” Rivera said with a laugh before comparing the remarks to his famous topless selfie moment.

“Usually, that’s what I do when I’m late at night, that’s when I did the topless selfie. It was late at night I was drinking tequila by myself.”

“You know I have apologized,” Rivera continued on, adding “talk about hubris.”

He then explained that when he first heard about the mail bomb scare, he wondered why a Trump supporter would do it because it was so “cartoonish.”

But then, Rivera stressed, indeed the “perp” was cartoonish — making him eat his words.

“When you saw the perp, a steroid-raged Trump lunatic with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s picture on his van with the crosshairs through it. He was a lunatic. It was exactly as the mainstream media thought it was,” Rivera explained. “I embarrassed myself. I should have kept my mouth shut. I had pretty good luck with my opinions, generally speaking, but this was so fanciful, it was such a stretch.”

“Really, I apologize for it,” Rivera added. “It was my Al Capone’s vault of the 21st century.”

Then, Abrams pressed him on whether he thought he had an obligation as a public figure to be careful with his words before making such a bold claim.

Rivera agreed he did.

“That is why I am appalled,” Rivera admitted. “I should have just kept to myself.”

Listen above via The Dan Abrams Show.

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