Christian Smith
(NewsNation) – “We have bitterness, harshness. We will have violence”, says political analyst Bill O’Reilly about the consequences of former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 criminal charges at his trial in New York.
But he told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo that President Joe Biden could knock the wind out of supporters on both sides.
“President Biden should pardon Donald Trump for any and all crimes and publicly suggest that (New York) Governor Hochul do the same thing. And so… President Biden should pardon his son Hunter. This would throw the entire bitter system into absolute chaos.”
O’Reilly acknowledges that there is not much equivalence or fairness in comparing the Trump and Biden cases.
“I’m not comparing Biden to Trump. I’m telling Biden what’s best for the country.”
But O’Reilly does not expect Biden to act in a way that, he says, would be comparable to President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon in 1974.
“The president could reduce the level of hate, but he won’t… because he doesn’t have the ‘fiber’ of Gerald Ford.”
Hunter Biden faces federal charges in two cases: illegal possession of a pistol for 11 days after allegedly lying on the federal questionnaire about his drug use and allegedly evading $1.4 million in federal income taxes over three years.
Trump faces two federal trials over confidential documents seized from his Florida home and for trying to overturn the 2020 election in Washington, DC. He also faces a trail in Georgia for his alleged efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election.
In proposing a way to calm America at large, O’Reilly was not so calm in his condemnation of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought charges against Trump.
“We all know this is low-grade beef. It’s not the Teapot Dome scandal. It’s not Watergate. It’s not even Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton,” he said.
“Alvin Bragg last year downgraded 60% of all crimes committed against him by the NYPD as misdemeanors and dismissed 14%. That’s 74% of all Manhattan crimes brought to Alvin Bragg were dismissed or downgraded,” O’Reilly added.
“The big story is not (Trump’s) conviction. The big story is the decline of America! Not since the Civil War have citizens hated each other – and I use that word literally – as much as they do now.”
globo com ao vivo
o globo jornal
jornal da globo
co mm o
uol conteúdo
resultado certo rs
