Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, December 16, 2024

Episode Date: December 16, 2024

Drone update, ABC News forced to pay Trump millions of dollars, the Biden administration puts pieces of the border wall up for sale, and Musk to create an email service. Plus, the Message of the Day, sad times in the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update, sponsored by Tax Network USA. America's number one choice for tax resolution. Please go to TNUSA.com slash bill or call 800-245-6-0-00. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It is Monday, December 16th, 2024. Here's this happening today in America.

update, Stephanopoulos stuffed, border wall for sale, and ex-mail. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, I can't even report on the drones because everyone in the government on the record is saying they don't know anything. But the governor of New York said this has gone too far. Even Chuck Schumer said if the technology exists for a drone to make it up into this guy, there certainly is the technology that can draft the craft with precision and determine

what the heck is going on. The FBI and Homeland Security issued a joint statement saying there's no evidence. at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus. Trump said on true social, can this really be happening without our government's knowledge? I don't think so. Let the public know and now. Otherwise, shoot them down. Back March 10th of this year, George Stephanopoulos was talking to Congresswoman Nancy Mace, where Stephanopoulos said that Trump has been found liable for rape. Well, ABC News just settled a defamation lawsuit with Trump for $15 million.

dollars. The money will go to a presidential foundation and museum fund. ABC also is to pay Trump's $1 million in legal fees. According to a report from the Daily Wire, the Biden administration has been shipping off giant sections of metal that were supposed to be used to build the border wall in Tucson, Arizona. It's being shipped to a different location where it will be auctioned off. Each section of 39 foot by seven foot steel wall sections are being auctioned starting at $5 a peace. Congressman Eli Crane, whose congressional district is right next to where the material is being sold, said the Biden administration is purposefully hamstringing Trump before he takes office. The lieutenant governor of Texas says that he and the governor spoke last night about purchasing the wall.

He says a lot of the sections are junk covered in concrete and rust, but if any of it's able to be used to build a border wall, he says Texas will buy the section and give them to Trump when he takes office. someone wrote on Twitter now X that a email client through X would be cool. Elon responded, yeah, on the list of things to do. Gmail, run by Google, has a 76% share of the email market in America, 121 billion emails sent today. We'll see if Elon can make a dent in that. Elon has become the first person to have a net worth over $400 billion.

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Yo, Adrian, the contender wins the title, 2016. Then he gets knocked out in 2020. Then they try to put him away forever, and he comes back from that. with the cases, the criminal cases, and the smearing by the press, and on and on, and then the ultimate Trump before he wins the presidency again. What a flick. Now, I think Donald Trump's political comeback is the strongest political movement in our history ever. And it has to do with a man who simply would not stop.

And that is the lesson for every American, whether you like Trump or not. If you are relentless in the pursuit of your goals, you are much more likely to succeed. Most people give up when they get hammered down. Trump almost got killed, defiant to the end, and he emerges. the most powerful man in the world once again. Trump before, playing at a theater near you. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com.

Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Name in town if you wish to opine. Now let's go to the mail. David Hathway, Hendersonville, North Carolina. Hey, Bill. J.D. Vance was in Western North Carolina recently to view hurricane damage, since he and President Trump are not sworn in yet, are taxpayers paying for the travel? No. Political action committees on the Republican side pay for all of the Trump stuff now.

That will not kick in until he is sworn in as president, the federal stuff. William Lowen's Estero, Florida, Bill, how much money do you figure David Penny will owe his lawyers and do you think his life will ever get back to normal? I think his life will get back to normal, but he'll always. have it, you know. But psychologically, that's got to be brutal. Brutal. I estimate lawyers' fees, $2.5 million. And the GoFund me and all that will cover it. And the money that isn't going to legal fees is going to be donated to mental health charities, I understand. So they're responsible. This whole thing is run very well by Penny's

lawyers. Very responsible. Susan, on the message board, all the folks in since J6 need to be released. I disagree. You're violent that day. You heard somebody, attacked a cop. When somebody's office, trashed it, you got to pay another cliche, the piper. But if you're just wandering around

and you got caught up in it, should be reviewed. You've got to be reasonable here. In a moment, something you might not know. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce One. Every week, I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors,

lawmakers, newsmakers, and even the president, of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. Now, the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. 251 years ago today, angry colonists dumped hundreds of pounds of British cargo into Boston Harbor. The symbolic act of defiance inspired America's founders to rebel

against England. Here is the story of the Boston Tea Party. In May 1773, London granted the British East India Company a monopoly on the sale of tea in the American colonies. The order stifled local business people and trade with other countries. when three ships, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver, arrived in Massachusetts, the colonists demanded that the products, the tea, be sent back to England. Well, in response to the royal governor of Massachusetts ordered the locals to buy the tea and buy it fast, and that did not sit well with the patriots who organized into the Sons of Liberty. At midnight on December 16th, 1773, 60 men, wearing outfits taken from native tribes to conceal

their identities, boarded the boats, and dumped 350 containers of tea into the Atlantic Ocean. Total amount of goods destroyed valued at $18,000 back then. Today, the tea would be worth half a million bucks. outrage, Parliament, enacted even more rules against the colonies, including the intolerable acts of 1774. The English crown closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule, made English officials immune to criminal prosecution, and required the colonists to house royal troops, and feed them as well. The Tea Party was the first major act of defiance against London by the North

Americans. It rallied patriots across the 13 colonies to fight for independence. And here's something else you might not know. While broadly popular with the American public, the Tea Party was scorned by a few of the founding fathers. Benjamin Franklin demanded the Sons of Liberty reimburse the British for the dumped car. George Washington wrote, he was disappointed that, quote, Bostonians had gone mad. Back after this. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning, I'll bring you the stories that matter, plus the news people actually talk about, the juicy details in the worlds of politics, business, pop culture, and everything in between. It's what you want from the New York Post wrapped up in one snappy show.

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