Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, January 15, 2021

Episode Date: January 15, 2021

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Bill O'Reilly here. Friday, January 15th, 2021. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America. Without question this month, January will go down as one of the most consequential periods of time in American history. Since New Year's Day, hundreds of Americans have been arrested for insurrection against the United States Congress. Social media platforms. have permanently banned a sitting president and thousands of his supporters, and now impeachment. The media and the Democratic Party have canceled people for simply questioning the integrity of the election, including Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, Rudy Giuliani, members of the president's family, radio hosts, and the list goes on.

Many corporations like AT&T, Best Buy, Verizon, and others are pledging to cut all financial ties to any member of Congress that backed the president's push to investigate election fraud. The witch hunt is intense and driven by a media that despises President Trump and his supporters. There is no question about that. Now, Mr. Trump publicly stated in his speech last week that he wanted protesters in Washington to act, quote, peacefully and patriotically in their dissent. So how can he be impeached for inciting the attack on the Capitol? Well, the answer is it doesn't matter. What Mr. Trump actually said, the hate Trump machine was going to blame him for the assault on the Capitol, just like it did

blame him for thousands of COVID deaths. Remember that? The truth is that President Trump had no idea sedition was in the air, but he certainly understood that anger was. And the President did nothing to diffuse that anger. And he possibly stoked it. That's open to debate. That was a grave mistake, but not an impeachable one. With less than a week before inauguration day, Senator McConnell has already confirmed a trial against Mr. Trump will happen only after he leaves office, and maybe never. But why should it happen at all? Is this good for the country? Of course it isn't. This creates more hatred, more division, and makes it more difficult for the new president, Joe Biden, to be affected. Coming up, my message of the day, listeners, sound off.

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Time now for the O'Reilly Update message of the day. Listeners sound off. We do this every Friday. You can get involved by emailing me. Bill at Bill O'Reilly. dot com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com, name in town, if you wish to opine. First letter comes in Dean in Zanesville, Ohio. O'Reilly, do you feel that Senator McConnell has sold out the conservative movement? Is he a rhino? Rino being Republican in name only. My analysis of the Senate Majority Leader is that Mitch McConnell does not like Donald Trump. And he's playing a little bit of a game here. McConnell knows the Senate is not going to vote to convict Donald Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors.

So he's putting the vote off and basically saying to everybody, well, I don't know how I would vote. but Mr. McConnell does not want to destroy the Republican Party because he right now is the most powerful person in it. Lorry in California, Bill, you said you believe Donald Trump should pardon himself. I'm confused. I thought you had to be charged the crime before you could be pardoned. No. You can get a presidential pardon for all crimes that might be directed your way. And I believe that President Trump is on firm constitutional grounds if he pardons himself. Certainly he can pardon any of the people in his administration before they would be charged. Bob is in Eagle River, Alaska, a little chilly up there this time of year.

Bob says, I don't recall the background of Black Codes. Didn't President Andrew Johnson have have to get congressional approval to implement them. Now, this is a history question based on impeachment. So President Andrew Johnson took office after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. That was right after the Civil War. And there were no state governments in the confederacy because they had rebelled against the union. So President Johnson was in charge of the Southern states, and Union troops kept order. Johnson, a bigot and a racist from Tennessee, ordered that freed slaves not be given employment opportunities. So they had to work for very little money on the huge plantations. That was called the Black Code. Now, that did not lead to his

impeachment. Johnson was impeached over another matter, but the Black Code caused hatred against Johnson. Steve, Helena, Montana, in my opinion, the best thing that could act to bring the country together would be a Biden pardon of Donald Trump right after the inauguration. Will not happen, Steve, because President Biden fears the backlash from his own party, Twitter, and all of that. I'm Bill O'Reilly, and I approve that message by putting it together in a moment. Something you might not know. 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.

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the 45th president, Donald Trump. Mr. Trump will be the first commander-in-chief to skip the inaugural in more than 150 years. The last time was 1869. Outgoing chief executive Andrew Johnson detested the incoming president Ulysses S. Grant, and the feeling was mutual. The feud dated back to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. That promoted Johnson to the presidency. Now, Andrew Johnson's racist views offended Grant, who ran the army. In February 1868, Johnson became the first president ever impeached by the House. Grant supported the removal. He and Johnson accused each other of being liars, cheats, and frauds. The Senate ultimately acquitted Andrew Johnson by just one vote. President Johnson was so unpopular during his tenure that the Democrats refused to nominate him

for a second term. The Republicans ran Grant who won easily. Now the two foes would be together for a transition. Grant's reaction upon his election, quote, I will not occupy the same carriage with Mr. Johnson going to and from the Capitol. According to White House records, Johnson told his cabinet, quote, we owed it to ourselves to take the ground that we could not, with proper self-respect, witness the inauguration of a man whom we knew to be untruthful, faithless, and false, unquote. As his successor was about to be sworn in, Andrew Johnson stayed inside the White House. At noon, he stood up, shook hands with his cabinet members, headed out the door, saying, quote, I fancy I can already smell the sweet mountain air of Tennessee.

And that's where he returned to. And here's something else you might not know. In interviews later in life, Johnson repeatedly used the following line when asked why he refused to attend the inauguration. Quote, say what you will about me, but I'm no hypocrite. Unquote, back after this. 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 sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't.

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