Bill O’Reilly issued a passionate defense of Donald Trump over his ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, noting the president was painted as being “anti-Epstein” in recently released files.
On Friday, the conservative commentator addressed the new revelations involving Trump and Epstein, in which the president reportedly called the Palm Beach Police Department in the mid-200os amid their investigation of the disgraced financier.
“Thank goodness you’re stopping him,” Trump is noted saying in the document, which was released by the DOJ in January. “Everyone has known he’s been doing this.”
Per O’Reilly, Trump’s critics “desperately want to hang” the president for his past association with Epstein and defended that this particular document appeared to prove he was against the infamous sex offender.
“I’m going to walk right through this: 2006, Jeffrey Epstein was under investigation for crimes involving minor girls,” O’Reilly said. “That got into the press. Trump called authorities in Palm Beach County and, specifically, the sheriff, Michael Ryder. Trump told the sheriff, according to the documents in the Epstein files, ‘OK, you better get Epstein, he’s an awful guy.’”
He continued: “That same year, 2006, Epstein was indicted. Took two years and he was convicted on state charges in Florida. Served 18 months in prison. Then he got out of prison, went back to doing the same stuff.”
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