{"id":104889,"date":"2018-09-28T08:42:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=104889"},"modified":"2018-09-28T08:43:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:43:05","slug":"geraldo-this-was-bigger-than-president-trumps-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=104889","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This Was Bigger Than President Trump&#8217;s Election&#8221; &#8212; Geraldo Rivera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_104891\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/GetFile-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104891\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104891\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/GetFile-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/GetFile-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/GetFile-5-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Tom Williams\/Pool Image via AP)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>By Cathy Burke<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testimony Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee was &#8220;as big or bigger than the election of Donald Trump,&#8221; according to political commentator Geraldo Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>In remarks on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;The Story,&#8221; Rivera said the &#8220;stunning day&#8221; \u2014 in which Kavanaugh defended himself against an allegation of sexual assault when he was a teen \u2014 was &#8220;a hinge in history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was the biggest event \u2014 as big or bigger than the election of Donald Trump,&#8221; Rivera declared. &#8220;This was something much more organic because it is an issue that is so divisive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is one of those historic coincidences in some ways that our party politics and the stance on this most fundamental issue are the same,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera asserted the day&#8217;s dramatic testimony from Kavanaugh and accuser Christine Blasey Fordy will be long remembered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that we will look back on this day . . . right now today and say this is where the composition of the [Supreme] Court was determined for the next generation,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was so dramatic and profoundly important . . . This is all about abortion and Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Half the country feeling one way. The other half of the country feeling the other . . . And whether or not he will be confirmed, it was &#8216;by any means necessary on both sides.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/geraldo-rivera-brett-kavanaugh-senate-judiciary-committee\/2018\/09\/27\/id\/883824\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/geraldo-rivera-brett-kavanaugh-senate-judiciary-committee\/2018\/09\/27\/id\/883824\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}