Geraldo Rivera: Fox & Friends Was ‘Too Slow’ to Speak About ‘Hideous Nature’ of Trump’s Migrant Policy

As Geraldo Rivera spoke with Fox & Friends on Friday, he conceded that he and his colleagues previously failed to recognize the full extent of President Trump‘s border policies.

Before Trump rescinded his administrative policy of separating migrant children from their parents earlier this week, the cast members of his favorite show tried to downplay the border situation, which included saying kids were being kept in “security pens,” rather than metal cages. As Rivera lamented Melania Trump‘s poor fashion choices on her recent trip down south, he conceded “I believe that we were, in many ways, way too slow to recognize the emergency on that border.”

“I think that we particularly at Fox & Friends – and I bear this burden myself – we were too slow to recognize the hideous nature of this policy that separated children from their parents…We dropped the ball and I apologize for it. We should have spoken out sooner, because why? This is a real issue, the border security is a real issue, we need to secure our borders, but we don’t do it by doing something so obscene, we don’t endorse child abuse to secure the border.”

The rest of the discussion continued with Rivera proposing solutions to the border crisis while ripping Democrats for rejecting a compromise bill to fix the immigration system in Congress. Interestingly, they did not talk about Trump’s latest tweets where he torpedoed legislative talks by saying the GOP shouldn’t bother with immigration until they win the midterm elections in November.

Watch above, via Fox News.

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