During his podcast Wednesday, Bill O’Reilly maligned “corporate media”, specifically The Washington Post, for what he sees as their complicit interaction with government agencies to accuse Donald Trump of crimes, going as far as saying “their media allies and the corporations are helping to carry that out”.
“Every day the Justice Department is leaking stuff about Donald Trump. Every day,” O’Reilly said. “The primary conduit is The Washington Post. Which yesterday reports, citing several unnamed sources — where have we heard that before? — that among several unclassified documents in Mr. Trump’s basement was a nuclear capability analysis of a foreign nation. And this was the big story in the corporate media.
“Now, on Fox and Friends on the Fox News channel, they actually said ‘Well what is Trump doing with nuclear analysis of a foreign nation?’ Well — number one — how do you know its true? Number two, how do you know its classified? And why would he take it? Number three. It’s just like ‘suck it up’ whatever they throw out there.”
O’Reilly then questioned why the former President would take such a document, going as far to say there’s “no reason on Earth for Donald Trump to take a document like that”.
The former Fox News host continued by expressing his disbelief that people haven’t completely discounted traditional media sources.
“You would think Americans would say ‘Enough. I’m not watching this anymore. I’m not reading these newspapers anymore. I’m gonna watch O’Reilly. Or something else that has some kind of credibility.’ You would think! Now, it is happening to some extent. The network news is losing audience and so is cable news.”
