Bill O’Reilly Blames Trump MSG Comedian Controversy on ‘Dunderheads’ in His Campaign No One Else Would Dare Hire
Bill O’Reilly argued both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making “mistakes” in their final days stretch, but Trump’s mistakes boil down to “dunderheads” in his staff.
O’Reilly joined NewsNation’s Leland Vittert on Tuesday to discuss Trump and Harris’s closing arguments. He called out Trump over a controversial joke told at his Madison Square Garden event. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe set off controversy when he referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
Trump has since distanced himself from the comedian and said he was unaware Hinchliffe was going to be speaking at the event.
O’Reilly said he confirmed this through his own reporting, but it’s still a slip-up on the former president’s part.
“He didn’t even know the guy was on the bill, but that’s on Trump. He should have known. And he’s got a lot of people working for him that are dunderheads. I know them. They wouldn’t work for me or you. We wouldn’t let them in the door,” the former Fox News host said.
O’Reilly and Stephen A. Smith will participate in a special election-themed town hall with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday night.
Vittert argued Trump not firing anyone over the Hinchcliffe incident gives his critics easy ammo against him.
“This is a man who wants the ultimate responsibility and who wants to take no responsibility,” he said.
O’Reilly went on to praise some Trump allies like Republican National Committee co-chair (and Trump’s daughter-in-law) Lara Trump and senior advisor Susie Wiles, but he still pointed to an unnamed group that is not qualified for their positions who have turned the campaign to “hatred.”
“Maybe he will. I don’t know, but I think it’s a small ball. The overarch is he’s got some bad people working for him, and I know that to be true,” he said. “They’re ubiquitous people; they’re only there because they kiss his butt, and that’s not what you want.”
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