Bill O’Reilly Downplays Report of Trump Praising Hitler: ‘He Makes Offhand Comments All the Time and They Don’t Mean Anything’

Bill O’Reilly downplayed the potential backlash to alleged comments made by former President Donald Trump about Adolf Hitler and even argued Vice President Kamala Harris would be the one to face the consequences at the voting booth over the controversy.

Ret. Gen. John Kelly, who worked as chief of staff under Trump, said in audio released by The New York Times that Trump told him that Hitler “did some good things.” He also claimed Trump praised the loyalty of Hitler’s generals. Trump’s camp denied the comments and Trump himself accused Kelly of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

O’Reilly joined NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on Tuesday and argued that the Kelly conversation has so little context that it’s impossible to know what Trump actually meant.

“I listened to that stupid tape. Why didn’t the reporter say to Gen. Kelly, what was the context of the conversation?” O’Reilly said.

The former Fox News host also such outlandish comments are expected from Trump at this point, and even he forgets some of the outrageous things he says “30 seconds later.”

“Trump makes offhand comments all the time, but they don’t mean anything. He doesn’t even remember them 30 seconds later,” he said.

He added that Harris throwing herself into the mix and responding to the comments could impact her at the polls.

“I believe this is going to backlash against Kamala Harris who made a big mistake today. She in the beginning floated above it, which is a smart play, but then came out in front of the microphones and called Trump a Hitler lover, which he’s not,” O’Reilly said.

Harris, he argued, should have “stayed above it.”

“Everyone should expect it, it’s predictable, it’s nasty. I’ve never heard Hitler’s name mentioned in a presidential campaign before except FDR said I want to kick his butt,” O’Reilly said. “This is so hateful and Harris should have stayed above it.”

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