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Here is a comment related to interviews with President Trump, based on Bernie’s comment a few episodes back that Bill O’Reilly should host a presidential debate with DT. Ben Shapiro has just had DT on his program and DT just steamrolled the guy for twenty minutes. Yes, BS is now actively supporting DT. But we need that same critical voice that speaks when DT is not there in person. Compare that to Bill O’Reilly’s interview of Trump: Bill can control the conversation and direct the interview like no one else. While KH goes into friendly zones, DT needs to do more—at least going on BOR. Bill may be friendly to the former president, but he is sincere and is fact based.

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Not only is BO (Bill O'Reilly) friendly to DT, he's rooting for him. He tries to maintain a patina of objectivity, but it's only that.

He deals in partial facts. When he likes the POTUS, or the candidate he describes the glass being half full. When he opposes the POTUS or the candidate, he describes the glass being half empty.

Even in the interview BO had with DT in 2016 - on the heels of DT's dissing John McCain's war record - that BO always touts as "making his [DT's] knees warble," BO's purpose of the interview was rehabilitate DT. He practically forced DT to say that he didn't mean it way it was portrayed., i.e. he threw DT a lifeline and forced him to take it.

Yes, loyalty is important to BO, and he's loyal to his old friend DT. BO was apparently worried that DT's remark about John McCain was DT's death knell, as so many other pundits thought.

It's obvious that BO despises VP Harris. He desperately wants her to lose.

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