Bill O’Reilly reluctantly had to admit Monday night that his outlandish claims about the Biden administration and former Attorney General Merrick Garland “convicting” Jeffrey Epstein were false, muttering a truculent “yeah, so” when NewsNation anchor Leland Vittert corrected him.
Amid the ongoing MAGA meltdown over the Justice Department concluding that Epstein died by suicide and didn’t keep a “client list,” which has only escalated after Donald Trump ordered his “boys” and “gals” to drop the matter, O’Reilly has contended that the president had good reasons not to release additional documents in the Epstein case.
“I talked to President Trump, man-to-man, eye-to-eye, on St. Patrick’s Day about this. … And he said — and I agree — ‘There are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein’s conduct,’” O’Reilly said last week.
The disgraced former Fox News star added at the time that “you can’t destroy a human being by putting out the files, whatever they may be.” He then suggested that Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has been under fire for signing off on the DOJ memo after previously claiming she was in possession of the “client list,” should hold a press conference with Garland and address the Epstein case head-on.
During an appearance on Vittert’s NewsNation program on Monday night, O’Reilly argued that the Epstein saga had become a distraction for the president but that it wasn’t to the point that Trump should be worried that it would...
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