Geraldo Rivera smacks down Jeanine Pirro for Rittenhouse defense: 'A dopey kid with a hero complex'

According to The Daily Beast, on Fox News Wednesday, Geraldo Rivera and Jeanine Pirro got into an argument over Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, whose trial for fatally shooting two and wounding a third during police protests last year continued earlier in the day.

"'He was a good kid, he went there to clean up the graffiti on the buildings.' Pirro declared of Rittenhouse on The Five, leaving out the part where he brought along an AR-15 with him," reported Matt Wilstein. "She went on to describe him as an 'exemplary' witness, praising him for speaking 'clearly' and 'directly' and calling the prosecutor in the case 'so desperate, so out of control that he's even got the judge going through the roof in that courtroom.'"

Rivera, however, countered that Rittenhouse was a "dopey kid with a hero complex" who "shouldn't have been there" in the first place. Nonetheless, Rivera believed that Rittenhouse would likely be acquitted on murder charges.

"'First of all, I don't think he's a dopey kid!" Pirro shot back. "Just because he isn't Mr. Cool from New York City doesn't make him a dopey kid, OK? This kid practiced CPR training, he was a police explorer, he was a fire cadet."

"He's a 17-year-old guy, a kid that takes an AR-15 to a neighboring state!" Rivera retorted.

Rittenhouse surprised some observers by taking the stand today, where he appeared to burst out crying over the events that had occurred the night he shot the protesters.

One high-profile moment came when the prosecutor incurred the wrath of the judge, who shouted at him in open court in an extraordinary move, accusing him of stepping on Rittenhouse's Fifth Amendment rights and trying to sneak in evidence already ruled inadmissible.