It was a total demolition.
Benny Johnson absolutely dismantled Geraldo Rivera during a fiery debate on Piers Morgan’s show, exposing the smug far-left pundit’s stupidity in real time for the world to see.
Geraldo, who has made a career out of defending the indefensible, tried to lecture America that illegal aliens are not criminals — even as he openly admitted that their “only crime” is coming here illegally. The circular logic was laughable, but Benny wasn’t about to let it slide.
Benny Johnson:
What do you mean by they’re not criminal aliens? Are you saying that they came here legally or illegally? Which is the answer?Geraldo Rivera:
The only crime the vast majority of these people have committed is coming here illegally. That’s the only crime.Benny Johnson:
But that makes them criminal.Geraldo Rivera:
They’re not Tren de Aragua. They’re not MS-13. The vast majority of them commit fewer crimes than citizens do.Benny Johnson :
Respectfully, do you understand the definition of the word “illegal”? Because you just said they came here illegally. Do you understand what that means?
For seven agonizing seconds, Geraldo sat in stunned silence, staring blankly, completely unable to respond.
Benny Johnson:
Do you understand the definition of the word “illegal”? Because you just said they came here illegally. Do you understand what that means? That means they broke our laws — the laws on the books.Geraldo Rivera:
So did the jaywalkers.Benny Johnson:
But I don’t understand. You just admitted their crimes — the vast majority of their crimes are here illegally. By saying that, you’re saying they’re criminals.Geraldo Rivera:
In my day, they weren’t. First of all, to categorize what they are doing as a crime insults real criminals.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Rivera then went off on a bizarre tangent about Puerto Ricans being “deported,” despite Puerto Ricans being U.S. citizens who carry American passports.
Geraldo Rivera:
I am absolutely dismayed by the attempts to sow terror in the homes of Latino people. For instance, Puerto Rican people. Puerto Rican people look just like Dominican people, just like Cuban people, just like — more or less — Venezuelan people. And yet, Puerto Rican people are citizens. Puerto Rican people are being harassed by ICE. They’re citizens, but they are also Latinos. There is a racial component. There’s a racial component.Benny Johnson:
Puerto Rican people have American passports, Geraldo. What are you talking about?Geraldo Rivera:
And so now they carry their… So now, Puerto Rican people… Hold on. Now, Puerto Rican people have to carry their American passports to show you that they belong here. Do you carry your American passport, Benny? Do you?Benny Johnson:
I carry an ID everywhere I go, yes — and a firearm. But is your contention that America is deporting Puerto Ricans back to America? Is that the point you’re trying to make?Can you give me an example of that, for instance? Because I can give you an example, Geraldo. I can give you an example of white, Chinese, black, and Hispanic people that are all here illegally.
WATCH:
Watch me leave Geraldo Rivera in total stunned silence.
Geraldo claimed illegal aliens are not criminals because the “only crime most of them commit is coming here illegally!”
I asked if Geraldo what the definition of “illegal” means.
*** 7 seconds of silence ***
How we win: pic.twitter.com/0Tvawu0efB
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 5, 2025
Rivera bizarrely tried to paint ICE agents as villains, claiming they are targeting “farmers, babysitters, and dishwashers.” Johnson, however, brought the real-world consequences: the brutal murder of nursing student Laken Riley by a Venezuelan gang member released repeatedly by left-wing prosecutors.
Johnson then hit Rivera with another truth bomb. Johnson explained why ICE agents wear masks, to protect their families from terrorist Venezuelan gangs like Tren de Aragua. Geraldo completely lost it. He mocked the comparison to U.S. Special Forces fighting ISIS.
Geraldo:
He’s exactly flipping the reality. They’re arresting farmers and babysitters and lawn mowers and dishwashers and poultry processors and meat packers. They are all Latinos. They are racially profiling Latinos, where Spanish-speaking people of brown skin are afraid to walk around for fear of a masked ICE agent stopping them and demanding their papers, please.It is outrageous. Once they make it inside the United States — and they’ve been here for decades, God-fearing, law-abiding family people — for God’s sakes, give them some compassion. Give them some American spirit. I am appalled by the aggression they are showing and the indiscriminate nature. And that’s why these court cases are all going against Tom. God bless for his patriotism, Piers.
Piers Morgan:
Wow. Okay. Benny Johnson, your response to that.Benny Johnson :
Wow. Okay. Let me just paraphrase you, Piers. First off, Geraldo, I appreciate you not maligning the man’s character and simply saying that he’s a patriot who wants to follow the law and wants to make his nation safe. I think we can all agree on that. That is clearly the single most important thing.If you are a patriot in this nation, that your family can walk down the street safely, that you can send your daughter to nursing school, that she won’t be bludgeoned by a rock by a Venezuelan gang member who’s trying to kill her — and succeeds in murdering your daughter named Laken Reilly with a rock after he tries to assault her — after that same Venezuelan Tren de Aragua member was locked up and released again and again by district attorneys from Manhattan to Atlanta.
Now, what you would call that is terrorism. That is an organized gang member who is operating via a narco-state, Venezuela, in order to terrorize our nation and succeed in murdering a young American nursing student, Laken Reilly. He’s part of a greater overall terrorist network that President Trump just yeeted one of their boats in the Caribbean.
Benny Johnson:
We all saw that clip. My question is: Why is it wrong for ICE agents who are deporting and arresting terrorists in our nation — organized terrorist gangs — to wear masks, yet special forces, when they’re fighting ISIS or Al Qaeda, wear masks? Why is it impermissible for ICE to wear masks? They wear them for the same reasons. They’re fighting dangerous, well-funded narco-state terrorists who would murder them and target their family and children if they could.Geraldo:
Bullsh*t. Just bullsh*t.Benny Johnson:
This is why Tom Homan said, “I don’t even live with my wife anymore. I don’t have the security to live with my wife anymore because of how dangerous this job is.”Geraldo:
You just compared — this job — United States soldiers fighting ISIS in places like Afghanistan with these officers on the street in Chicago. Benny, give me a f***ing break.I have no patience for it. I believe that Tom Homan believes everything that he says. I don’t doubt his sincerity. But when I come to the media that pretends to objectivity, I have a much harder view on this — my 55th anniversary week. I started in broadcasting 55 years ago this week. I’ve seen the truth-tellers, and I’ve seen the bullshitters.
WATCH:
“Give me a f****** break!”
Geraldo Rivera clashes with Benny Johnson over whether ICE has “aggression and an indiscriminate nature” towards immigrants.
https://t.co/uq5J8FFA27@piersmorgan | @bennyjohnson | @GeraldoRivera pic.twitter.com/qpwanAoGht
— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) September 4, 2025
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