CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer and former Fox News Host and pundit Gerald Rivera

Under questioning, former Fox News Anchor Geraldo Rivera on Thursday eventually admitted that what was happening to late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel was censorship.

Rivera, a long-time host of Fox News, spent the first half of his interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer heaping criticism upon the late-night comedian. However, Blitzer eventually convinced him to take a stand on President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr ordering Kimmel’s bosses to “take action on Kimmel.”

“Geraldo? Let me just be — Geraldo? Let me just be precise: Do you agree with the ABC Disney decision to go ahead and suspend Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely?” Blitzer pried.

“I think that censorship sucks, Wolf, and I do not appreciate government producing shows. I think it's very dangerous,” Rivera admitted before continuing his rant against Kimmel’s joke, which involved mocking Trump’s remarkable recovery from the assassination of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk. Kimmel also played footage of Trump leaping from the topic of the assassination to comment on White House construction in the same breath, and compared the pivot to a child recovering from the death of “a goldfish.”

“They are irrelevant to the point I'm making,” Rivera continued. “… The point I'm making is that the American people … have suffered a trauma, a trauma that … is minimized by smart people, sophisticated people, who oppose Donald Trump. This is very simple: Have respect. … How would the left be responding if Charlie Kirk was one of them?”

“So are you worried, Geraldo, about free speech in our country right now?” Blitzer pressed.

“We always worry about free speech,” Rivera said. “[A] lot of commentators, even on CNN, have pointed out that Kimmel's ratings have flattened, but it should not matter whether his popularity affects his rights. The [ratings] beef between him and his bosses, that's between them.”

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