Geraldo Rivera Says Why He'd Punch This Top Trump Ally 'In The Nose'
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The former Fox News personality said he would return to boxing to do it.
Geraldo Rivera told MSNBC’s Ari Melber that he’d pull no punches — literally — with top Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller over the latter’s hardline and “draconian” anti-immigration policies.
Rivera, 81, said ― during a discussion on NBC News’ reporting that the incoming Trump White House is thinking about carrying out what the outlet described as a “showcase” immigration raid to send a message in the first days of Trump’s second term — that he’d return to boxing just to punch Miller “in the nose.”
“You know, I’m an old man now. I’ve been a boxer all my life. I’ve given it up because of my frailty,” Rivera told Melber. “But I would come back to punch Stephen Miller in the nose because he is the most hideous, in terms of his policy.”
“I don’t know the guy personally. But In terms of his policy, he is absolutely draconian. He’s the definition of it,” Rivera continued. “He doesn’t want to resolve the issue. He wants to scapegoat certain people that will, in his mind […] it would resound favorably to President Trump.
“I think it’s a horrible idea,” he added of the raid report, predicting it would heighten uncertainty among immigrants and infuriate and motivate Democrats with little political gain for Trump.