Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, December 21, 2024

Episode Date: December 21, 2024

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Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the weekend edition of 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 800-245-6-0-0. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thanks, Bill. Here's what happening this week in America.

Speaker election, Biden commutations, the lame stream admits it, and Fannie dumped. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message today. But first, Donald Trump was asked if he still has confidence in Mike Johnson as speaker. Trump said, we'll see. What they had the other day was unacceptable. It was a Democrat trap. Now, there is a speaker election coming up on January 3rd.

They do it in the beginning of every new Congress. Rand Paul suggesting maybe the Speaker of the House should be Elon Musk. As it relates to a shutdown, Newt Gingrich said that Trump and the Republican should not be afraid of a government shutdown. We had two shutdowns in 1995, and then we became the first re-elected Republican House majority since 1928. Joe Biden just issued 1,49 commutations of federal prisoners. It's the largest single-day issue ever in American history. His office said that they were all nonviolent offenders. But they must have forgotten about Josephine Virginia Gray.

She was sentenced to 40 years in prison for insurance fraud schemes connected to the murder of three men between 1974 and 1996. Two were her husbands. One was a boyfriend, all found with gunshots to the head. She collected $166,000 in life insurance claims. The Maryland Attorney General did not pursue state charges because he said at the time her hefty federal sentence ensures that she will die in prison. Biden also commuted the sentence of a Mississippi cancer doctor who diluted chemotherapy

drugs as a part of a Medicare fraud scheme, an Illinois Comptroller who embezzled $53 million, the biggest municipal fraud case in American history, and the 15-year sentence of Wendy Hechtman, a former journalist convicted of manufacturing and selling a drug that's considered more powerful than fentanyl, carfentanyl. It's believed that her drug operation led to at least six overdose deaths. The Wall Street Journal, admitting the obvious, casually saying that the U.S. President is mentally incapacitated and has been that way for his entire presidency. Wall Street Journal reporting that from the beginning of his term, his team had fewer and shorter meetings, very few one-on-one interactions with lawmakers. The chairman of the Armed Services Committee said he never talked with Biden once, even when he desperately tried to before the Afghanistan withdrawal.

The Georgia Court of Appeals has disqualified Fulton County DA Fannie Willis from the RICO case against President Trump. They said no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings. The elected DA is wholly disqualified from the case. a crash and burn from Fannie Willis. Trump wins again. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast. Politics by Faith Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day. Next. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress.

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Again, that's 866-3-2-26-5576 or text bill to 9988-99. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day. Today's message has nothing to do with politics, and I thank God for that. It has to do with what Americans might consider over the next few days. Christmas, hurtling toward us, and I have two things on my wish list. Peace on earth, and don't be a jerk. The first one is noble, but unattainable. The second much easier.

It's all about second chances and swings both ways. If someone has wronged you, try for daytime, maybe just a simple card wishing them a nice Christmas. If they have any remorse, they will reply. If not, they won't. And you get a clear definition. No one should waste time on a spiteful person. If you yourself have hosed someone this year, it's a card and a small gift. Short message inside the card. The word sorry should be prominent. Only elaborate if it's necessary.

Again, if the person replies, a wrong by you could be mitigated unless it's invading Ukraine or something. Decent people believe in redemption. Miscreants do not. So do your best. not to be one of those miscreants, and be forgiving, insightful, and kind. But most of all, have yourself a merry little Christmas. 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. Go to the mail. Ronda Davidson, Lacey, Washington. Why is President Biden? allowed to pardon or commute crimes of anyone. Well, the Constitution gives him that. That's why he's allowed. Powers of the presidency, executive branch.

Sandra Dunleavy, Scott Steele, Arizona. I know you said Trump can't end birthright citizenship, possible for him to end Shane migration. No. Congress has to pass a law. New immigration law. Congress could do it. Congress couldn't do the birth.

That's an amendment. But chain migration is not an amendment. That's a law. So Congress can change that. But I don't know if Congress would do that or not. Pat Genova, Mountainside, New Jersey, there must be legislation that if any individual has committed a crime and is deported, if they come back, there has to be a penalty.

Well, yeah, that's Kate's law. and Hannity and I are banding together to make it Kate Lakin's law. Okay? So Lakin Riley was murdered by a Venezuelan undocumented thug. And we hope we get it. We're going to try our hardest, but we've been doing it for years. Tim Dodge, Spring Hill, Florida. As soon as Trump is in office, Congress needs to give all elected presidents the ability

to rescind the pardons. All right, but that's not going to happen. I mean, you know, they're not messing with the Constitution. It's not going to do it. In a moment, something you might not know. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics.

President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all size, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Now the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might, not know. 247 years ago, General George Washington and his troops,

marched into the hills of south-eastern Pennsylvania. There, the exhausted soldiers set up camp in what would quickly become the fourth largest city in the North American colonies. Here is the story of Valley Forge. On December 19, 1777, 12,000 soldiers, 400 women, 200 children, began construction of the camp

to wait out the cold. winter months when fighting was very difficult. Soon, the fort they erected north of Philadelphia consisted of 2,000 log huts and two miles of defenses. The encampment was as diverse as any city, was made up of free and enslaved black soldiers, Native Americans, wealthy officers, poor enlisted men, also European immigrants. Life in Valley Forge was brutal. Over the span of a few weeks, 2,000 troops died from disease. That's one out of every six. Another thousand actually starved to death at Valley Forge. To boost morale, George Washington organized a daring raid against the British in Philadelphia,

but the mission was called off because of a blizzard and a mass illness among his army. in a letter to the Continental Congress, quote, I ordered the troops to be in readiness for an attack, but behold, to my great mortification, the men were unable to stir on account of lack of provisions. That means they didn't have any food. All I could do under the circumstances was send out a few light parties to watch the enemy, unquote.

Well, the Army stayed in Valley for it for six months. In June 1778, Washington and his soldiers left the four, for pursuing English forces as they retreated from Philadelphia to New York City. And here's something else you might not know. Today, Valley Forge remains one of the most popular national parks in America. Two million visitors tour the site each year. There, folks can see the log cabin where George Washington celebrated Christmas Day in 1777. Back after this.

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