Geraldo Rivera (4 July 1943-) was an American journalist, talk show host, writer, and attorney. Born in New York City to a Catholic Puerto Rican mother and a Jewish father, he was admitted to the New York state bar in 1969 and became a frequent attorney for the Young Lords activist group. In 1970, he became an Eyewitness News reporter, and he rose to prominence during the 1980s, giving the first television mention of the AIDS virus in 1983, and hosting Geraldo from 1987 to 1998. In November 2001, he left CNBC to work as a Fox News correspondent, and he hosted the newsmagazine program Geraldo at Large and appeared regularly on the Fox News Channel. Rivera considered running for a US Senate seat in New Jersey in 2013 as a Republican, but he ultimately decided not to stand. While he was a friend of Donald Trump and agreed that the Robert Mueller investigation was a "witch hunt", he refused to vote for him in the 2016 presidential election due to his comments regarding Mexicans and other immigrants, and, in November 2018, he described the attack on the migrant caravan at the border with tear gas and rubber bullets as "racist" (especially condemning the use of military jargon such as calling the caravan "invaders"), as they walked 2,000 miles in search of millions of unfilled agricultural jobs in the USA, not to commit crimes.