Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, September 26, 2025

Episode Date: September 26, 2025

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Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It is Friday, September 26, 2025. Here's his happening today in America. Comey indicted Trump on Omar, Hegsteth, calling in the generals,

and the former president of this country thrown in jail. It's all coming up. And Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, former FBI director, James Comey, has been indicted on, One count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice. The statute of limitations ends this coming Tuesday. So they got it in just before the clock expires.

Pam Bondi said no one's above the law. Today's indictment reflects this Department of Justice's commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts of this case. The charges are likely from a testimony that Comey gave on September 30, 2020 during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Senator Ted Cruz asked about a testimony he gave in 2017 where he said he did not authorize leaking information regarding the FBI's investigation in President Trump or Secretary

Clinton. Comey said, I stand by the testimony. But a 2018 Justice Department Inspector General report found that Comey's deputy, Andrew McCabe, admitted that Comey authorized him to leak information to the press. Trump in the Oval Office was asked about Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett from Texas. He called her a low IQ person, but then he said, you know, I met with the head of Somalia, in reference to Elon Omar. He says, I met with the head of Somalia, and I suggested that maybe he'd like to take Omar back.

He said, I don't want her. Worth noting that Omar's family fled Somalia at the outbreak of their civil war in 1991. Omar came to America in 1995 when she was. 12 years old. But her family did not leave Somalia as some poor refugee. Her dad worked for the government of the Muslim Marxist military dictator that the people overthrew. That was why her family had to flee the country. Secretary of War, Pete Hegeseth, has ordered hundreds of U.S. military generals and admirals on short notice to D.C. It has not been announced why yet. The directive was sent to nearly all military top commanders worldwide. It's about 800 generals and admirals around

the world. Heggseth did have a directive in May to cut about a hundred generals and admirals. A little blast from the past here, you might remember the former president of France, Nicholas Sarkozy. Well, he's been sentenced to five years in jail. It's after a three-month trial, first time that a former French president has been found guilty of trying to use foreign money like this. The claim is he orchestrated a scheme to secure 50 million euros from Omar Gaddafi in Libya. I'm Mike Slater for the podcast, Politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day. Next. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast. Reminding you to turn 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. 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. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day.

On this Friday, the Trump administration has made a fairly significant mistake. It came from the Pentagon, the Defense Department, and its chief Pete Hegseth, who used to work for Fox News. Mr. Heggseth has told reporters who cover the Pentagon, about 90 of them, that they will not be able to disseminate information that they get without government approval. This is insane. So if a reporter gets information that a bathroom on a submarine costs $10 million, that reporter can't write that? or broadcast it without Pete saying it's okay? Come on, blatant violation of freedom of the press, and it would not hold up for 10 minutes in the federal court system. I don't know why this continues to happen. Pete Hagseth is a media guy. He knows the rules. You can't tell reporters

what to report. That's what they do in Beijing, in Moscow, in Tehran. We are a free society here. Reporters have a right to ferret out stories. And if they are wrong, those reporters should be held responsible, but never censored by the government. 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. Let's go to the mail. We got Brett concierge member. Bill, your column rightly highlights China's contempt for free expression. But where's the leadership to confront it? America's debate over speech is noisy, but at least it's free. In meantime, China jails the centers. What kind of leadership do you want? China is going to be a totalitarian communist state forever. Never going to change. No leader could change it, except God if you came that. It's just too powerful a nation. Carl Baker, Indio, California. Several months ago, you recommended a book on Mark Twain. It took me three months to read it. I still haven't read it. It's 800 pages.

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podcasts, also on our YouTube channel at President's Daily Brief. Now, the O'Reilly Update briefly something you might not know. Thirty-seven years ago today, the United States government designated Rockefeller Center in New York City, a national landmark. While millions visit the Manhattan Complex each year, few nights. know about the life of the man himself. Here is the story of John D. Rockefeller. Born in 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, J.D., as he was called, was the youngest child of Standard Oil Founder John Rockefeller Sr. He joined the family business after graduating from Brown University in Rhode Island. In 1897, the firm moved to Manhattan. For the next 15 years, his operation used in

intimidation, coercion, extortion, and even violence to create the largest monopoly in America. The Rockefeller Group destroyed unions, intimidated political opponents, squashed all competition. The company orchestrated the massacre of workers in Colorado, Cleveland, and Pennsylvania. Tens of thousands of Americans toiled under brutal conditions. There were no safety regulations, no standard action. hours, no weekends, children as young as eight years old perished on oil rigs, mines, dangerous refineries. To raise fuel prices, John D. Rockefeller slashed the supply of oil during the frigid winter months. Countless Americans froze to death. By 1910, Standard Oil controlled 90% of

America's energy supply. Rockefeller himself owned 5% of the country's total gross domestic product. His net worth, $1.4 billion. That's the equivalent today of $50 billion. Enter President Theodore Roosevelt, who despise Rockefeller and the other robber barons. He immediately sued the industrialists, and he won. In 1911, the Supreme Court found John D. Rockefeller guilty of operating a monopoly, they ordered standard oil and be broken into 34 smaller companies. And here's something else you might not know. Many of those businesses formed by the breakup of Rockefeller's enterprise remain in operation to this day. Exxon, mobile, Chevron. For more stories about the evil robber barons, please check out my best-selling book

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