Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Trump's Ukraine Mineral Deal, White House Pushes for Immigrant Registration, Kash Patel Lauches Investigation Into James Comey & What Is Donald Trump's 'Gold Card' Plan?

Episode Date: February 27, 2025

Tonight's rundown:  Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday February 26, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill outline...s the details of the Trump-Ukraine mineral deal and looks at how the corporate media is reporting it. The Trump administration plans to require undocumented immigrants to register with the government. Is it possible for Donald Trump to offer a $5 million 'Gold Card' visa to the rich? Kash Patel has launched an investigation into former FBI Director James Comey, who is accused of using a ‘honeypot’ operation to target the 2016 Trump campaign. This Day in History: The Tower Commission issues a report rebuking President Ronald Reagan for failing to control his national security staff. Final Thought: Why Bill is off tomorrow. In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, Discombobulating Stand out from the crowd with our NEW Not Woke baseball cap for just $28.95! For a limited time, get Bill O'Reilly's bestselling The United States of Trump and a No Spin Mug for only $39.95. Get Bill's latest book, CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENTS, out NOW! Now's the time to get a Premium or Concierge Membership to BillOReilly.com, the only place for honest news analysis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:17 Well, the deal-making continues at the White House, and the latest is what I predicted, that Ukraine and the USA will sign a contract, for America to harvest minerals on Ukrainian soil. Wow. This is pretty interesting. Now, some of the deals that Donald Trump is making, I think, are good. Others are questionable.
Starting point is 00:01:45 I'll give me an example of that, the tariffs. So I understand in theory why Trump is doing this. He's tired of countries like Mexico and Canada and China getting a lot more money from us. then pumping back into our economy. I got it. But the tariffs could adversely affect American workers, for example, in the car industry. If the price of American cars goes up and under tariffs, those prices will, there will be fewer cars sold. So we don't know about the tariffs. It could work out, trying to think it will, but we don't know. But this Ukraine deal, I think it's a pretty good one.
Starting point is 00:02:30 and that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So here's what it says, ready? And I'm probably the only one going to tell you exactly what it says. The US and Ukraine have agreed to establish an investment fund, drawing money from as yet untapped seams of Ukraine's wealth of rare earth minerals. We're talking lithium, we're talking, you know, a whole bunch of stuff that is in the Ukraine, that they can't get out, but we could, because we have much better technology, all right?
Starting point is 00:03:03 Both countries would then use this fund to invest in Ukraine's reconstruction and security. Okay? But the money that the minerals gather would not be used to pay back America's assistance, which is about what, $170 billion so far in our war, something like that, okay, would not be used for that. That's a slight of hand, because all profits from the mineral extraction, and there would be billions of dollars in profits, would be split 50-50 between Keeve and Washington. So money would be coming back into the U.S. Treasury. It's not a quid pro quo, it's not a payback, but we would be getting money our treasury,
Starting point is 00:03:55 that would, you know, help defray the money we sent over there. It's a good deal. It's a good deal. And Zelensky is coming on Friday to sign it. But here's the most important part of the deal. And I mentioned this before. You have a situation where Putin is probably going to sign a ceasefire with Trump. But nobody trusts Putin. Six months down the lane, he could say, And go back in. But if there's American structure in Ukraine, American workers, American security, American equipment, much harder for bad lad to do that. Because once he attacks U.S. interests, big. Okay. So you have the scenario. I think that's a very fair assessment, by the way. If you disagree, Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com, name in town.
Starting point is 00:04:54 So, the media's reaction was negative to the deal, because everything Donald Trump does is bad. Here are the outlets that criticized Trump over the mineral deal. CNN, ABC News, New York Times, LA Times, MSNBC, Washington Post, Daily Mail, BBC, New York Post editorial board, Financial Times, and Forbes. That's just a partial list, okay? And I just play one far left crank, go. But the Trump alternative is a kind of almost gangsterism. I mean, today we've got this news about the mineral deal, right? Like, what's in it for me, what's in it for us?
Starting point is 00:05:40 Give us your mineral, give us your treasure, or we won't protect you. That's not what the deal says. So, I mean, look, I'll deal with MSNBC. a little bit later on, but if you guys, nobody's watching, and I understand. Now, on News Nation, there was a balanced approach. Go. Suddenly, the United States has a stake in Ukraine surviving as a nation, and given that the war aim, repeatedly announced by Putin, is the extinguishment of the state of Ukraine,
Starting point is 00:06:19 this might also be a win for Ukraine. Of course, it's a win for Ukraine. They're in business with us. Come on. So that's the way to report it fairly. I mean, maybe it won't work out. Maybe Putin won't give a hoot. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:06:39 But Trump is at least trying. Okay, he's playing a chess game with Putin. And that's the memo. Okay. Now, there is a war between the president and the American press. You know, we've been over this. I think we have the best reportage. And I talked about that it's on Hannity's radio program.
Starting point is 00:07:04 This is fascinating. And I hope you listen to it on Bill O'Reilly.com because we have it posted. So I disagree with Hannity. Hannity says that Trump is not trying to seek retribution against the U.S. media. No, he is. And Haney makes his argument, I make mine, you can decide who's stronger. Okay, he absolutely is. Trump wants to punish the corrupt American media.
Starting point is 00:07:34 And in my opinion, it's so obvious, okay? But I'm glad Hattie disagreed because that makes a better debate. It makes a better debate. So today on true social, here's what Trump says, quote, As a president who is being given credit for having the best opening month of any president in history, quite naturally, here come the fake books and stories with the so-called anonymous or off-the-record quotes. At some point, I'm going to sue some of these dishonest authors and book publishers or even media in general, find out whether or not these anonymous sources even exist, which they largely do not, unquote.
Starting point is 00:08:11 Now, Trump has already sued ABC, Disney, and he won $17 million for a sudden. Library. CBS, 60 Minutes for the Kamala Harris interview, they'll settle with Trump. And he's got a couple of other lawsuits in play against media operations. He booted the AP, not giving them access, direct access to him, and on and on and on. And this is no accident. Okay, because all of these media outlets have tried to hurt him. And now he's the most powerful man, world and he's saying hey payback time to exactly what's happening is it wrong no as I told Hannity if the president sees corruption in the country whether it matter where it is if you're the president and you see it you got to try to do somebody you're the
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Starting point is 00:09:58 oxyclean. All right. Immigration. This is like every day there's four or five unbelievable stores coming out of the Trump White House. So now, Trump has signed an executive order call protecting the American people against invasion. As part of that order, all aliens, 14 years of age or older, have to register with the federal government and be fingerprinted. Okay? And if you do not, you can be arrested by ICE and put in jail if you're convicted. Okay.
Starting point is 00:10:38 Now, I've been saying this for years, that when you have, 20 million, 10 million, 15, whatever it may be, people unsupervised in this country, people, you don't even know who they are, okay, because the government knows who I am and you by the census, by your tax returns, they know where we live. But these people just snuck in, and the government has no idea. You got to know, you have to know. Or they can do damage, unbelievable amount. damage. So I always said you have to have some registration. Now here is a soundbite from September 19th,
Starting point is 00:11:21 2004, about six months ago, roll the tape. So what does mass deportation mean? Nobody knows what it means because Donald Trump has not and I don't think can define what it means. He doesn't know. It's a great slogan, big applause line every time he says it, mobilizes his base, but how are you going to do it? Now, there's a way, and I'm going to tell you once again, I'm sorry to be repetitive, but this is the way you do it. You can't have people kicking doors in, chasing people around, can't do that. What you can do is say, to anyone in this country, without. documentation you have three months I had it originally at six but I I'd bring it down to three you have three months 90 days to register with your local post office each
Starting point is 00:12:20 post office will have a registration form you're to fill it out and then you send it to Homeland Security on an envelope that's already given to you and the government pays the stamp if you do not fill out the form in a form and say, who are you? What country do you come from? Where are you living? Do you have a job? Do you have dependents, children? That kind of thing. It's a questionnaire. If you don't do it within 90 days and you're caught by the authorities, local, state, federal, you deport it without a hearing. All right, so Trump is up that to criminal prosecution. So it's the same thing.
Starting point is 00:13:10 You know, and I'm kind of proud that when I put this stuff out, I know the President of the United States knows what I'm saying. You saw it with the terrorist designation to the Mexican drug cartels. All right, but I actually had a face-to-face conversation with him about that. I didn't have a face-to-face conversation about how to register illegal aliens, but he knows my commentary. You've got to do it. But again, you know, I, you do it, then the left doesn't like it, roll the tape.
Starting point is 00:13:45 This is why President Trump has people thinking he has some dark tendencies. Why? A registry smacks of dark periods of our history. The idea that you want people 14 or older to be required to submit fingerprints and home addresses to the government, and if they fail to register, they could be fined five grand, sentenced to six months, in prison. Why is that dark? You got to have control over who's in your country. So if there's a criminal from Paraguay and there's no DNA and no fingerprint and nothing on the man or the woman, the authorities are powerless unless they catch them in the act. So if they investigate and they find fingerprints, they can't match him.
Starting point is 00:14:36 Now, I'm going to be on Cuomo tonight. I don't know if we're going to talk about this. His show, it's up to him, but I'll be happy to debate him on it. It's not dark. It's protective. Protecting the American people. You know, it's all about virtue signaling. I'm not accusing Cuomo that.
Starting point is 00:14:56 But, oh, no, we can't do that. We can't. We have to let them go. I know people, if you are a drug dealer, sell. Fentanyl and heroin, and you are in this country illegally. And there are millions that are doing that, okay? And you have a girlfriend in the house knowing that you're selling hard drugs. But the girlfriend isn't selling and doesn't have a record.
Starting point is 00:15:27 The liberal go, oh, you can't deport that girl, yeah, you can. You round up everybody in the house. come on the gulf is so huge it's never going to be breached ever it's too late it's like the 1850s south north okay um you want uh to get american passport five million bucks Let him tell you, go. They'll be wealthy and they'll be successful and they'll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people. And we think it's going to be extremely successful. Double problems.
Starting point is 00:16:18 Number one, President can't do that. Congress has to do that. So if you pay $5 million for American citizenship, Congress has to okay it. That's a law. Trump can't just go. I'm going to invent the law. Can't. But he wants it. Now, it makes me a little uneasy. So Putin could get that. Did you know Putin's the richest man in the world? I bet you didn't know that. Well, you will
Starting point is 00:16:46 after you read Confronting Evil, and we show you exactly how we did it. So Putin could buy a U.S. passport. Now, I assume that ICE and the federal government, if this is passed by Congress, and it, 50-50 on it. I assume they'll be checking people's backgrounds. But the reason that Trump is doing this is economics. So if people want to pay $5 million for a U.S. passport, and then they would have to do certain things to be a full-blood citizen, but they'd have a passport, Trump's going to take their money
Starting point is 00:17:24 because he believes that those kinds of people will bring money into this country. and that's what Trump's all about, capitalist, hyper-capitalist. Okay, the other countries that, a lot of countries do this, if you want a cut-rate passport, I looked into this, Uruguay, that's the easiest passport to get in the world, Uruguay. I've been there. When I covered the Falklands War, I was there as the British ship came in with all the wounded on it
Starting point is 00:17:58 after they were exosetted by the Argentine Air Force. I was in Montevideo. Uruguay is a nice country. Never gets any press. It's got a nice beach thing, Punta deleste. Montevideo's a okay town. But if you want, get out of here, America, and you don't have five million,
Starting point is 00:18:18 you know, you're going to make a deal with you. Now other countries, Portugal, and a lot of Americans over there. Okay? Malta, I was just there in the spring, last spring. Maltese would love to have you there. St. Kitts-Nivas in the Caribbean, beautiful, gorgeous, no, take you. Turkey. I don't know about that, Turkey, but if you got 400,000 to invest in Turkey, you can get a passport.
Starting point is 00:18:47 Maybe we asked New York City Mayor Adams about that. You big on the Turk thing. Okay, so I don't know whether this is going to happen because I don't know. know whether Congress is going to do this or not. I'm not going to be outraged if it happens. It makes me a little and easy. But I understand I get the fiscal picture. Mexico. All right, just just crossed my desk. So apparently in January, Texas authorities saw a IED improvised explosive device blow up on the Mexican side of the river, okay, of the Rio Grande in Brownsville, and a farmer and somebody else who killed in the explosion, and it was a cartel. So the Mexican drug cartels
Starting point is 00:19:45 now have IEDs. Okay. The State Department has a warning for Americans. The warning says that high-crime kidnappings and ongoing violence between the drug cartels themselves and Americans are getting caught in it. And I continue to say, well, again, let me have a sound bite. Go. Now, I did a smart life segment a few months ago
Starting point is 00:20:12 said, don't go to Mexico. I'd rather go to China. If I had a business reason to go to China, I'd go. If I had a business reason to go to Mexico, I would not. Not going to Mexico. Okay, corrupt, corrupt, corrupt, hurting the USA. Yep. If you go to Mexico and you get in trouble in any way, shape, or form, no one's going to help you.
Starting point is 00:20:37 No one. You're driving around down there? You're putting yourself at extreme risk, not only from the gangsters, but from the cops. They'll shake you down. I am going to China because now I have a reason to go. I'm going to go to China in the spring. Not for long, but I have business to over there as we expand our media empire all over the world. All right, FBI.
Starting point is 00:21:07 So Cash Patel, I would have voted for him. I understand he's a partisan. He's a Trump loyalist, but that's okay, as long as he does a good job. And now, the Washington Times, which is pretty good. It's an ideological right-wing paper, but they're pretty good. They say that Patel is going to launch an investigation into former FBI director James Comey. Here's what the Washington Times is reported. Allegedly, Comey put two FBI operatives, women.
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Starting point is 00:22:47 compromise people in that campaign. The operatives, the FBI, operatives are slang for them as honeypots, that they're supposed to get romantically involved with people that the FBI wants to know about. It happens all over the world. But when you do that to a potential presidential candidate, then you got problems. So if that's true, James Comey's in huge trouble, because that would be abuse of power. felony. I don't know where it's going to go. I don't know whether it happened or not. I don't know anything about it. But I do believe that this is a true story that Patel is going to investigate
Starting point is 00:23:28 Komi. Where is Komi now? He's an author. He writes novels. So I think he still lives in a D.C. area. You know, he writes novels. Bad guy. One of Trump's biggest mistakes was holding him over as FBI chief. And Trump will tell you that. Budget vote last night. Most boring story on earth passed by one vote. Because even though the Republicans have a three-person majority in the House, and that will expand soon as new Republican congresspeople get in because they have to be votes and things like that, Thomas Massey from Kentucky, Republican congressperson, he's not really a Republican.
Starting point is 00:24:14 I don't know what he is, but he just won't vote for anything Republican. So Democrats are like right there. All the Democrats voted against a new spending bill. Why? Because they were told to. That's it. Democratic Party in the House is like this. You don't, you go out of there, you're dead.
Starting point is 00:24:36 They'll campaign against you. They don't give you any money. They'll primary you. So they all voted against every single one. And that's, whenever you have anything that is promoted by the Republican Party, all the Democrats can vote against it. Unless it's emotional like the border or something like that. It's the only exception. Anyway, so the, now it goes to the Senate and the spending bill, okay, you know, on and on and on and on.
Starting point is 00:25:00 I'm glad the Trump administration is trying to bring the spending down. Will they be successful? I don't know. Because the big spending is in the entitlement, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid money to the states and the Defense Department. I don't know whether that will be successful. Let's go back to the media madness. So, as we mentioned, MSNBC's got.
Starting point is 00:25:30 And I believe there was one commentator who predicted that would happen. Go. MSNBC is finished. Now, this is another incredible, underreported story. But I am your media guy, 50 years in January. Okay. So MSNBC is a hateful, and I mean that literally, far left network. Everybody knows that. Its baseline of operations is between, in prime time, a million and two million viewers. It's nothing. Okay. So, I said that in November, and it came true. So yesterday, MSNBC laid off 100 people. They fired
Starting point is 00:26:19 Joy Reid. They fired some other radical leftists, and it's just chaos in there. But their top commentator, Rachel Maddow, did something very unusual. Go. I will tell you, it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two, count them two, non-white hosts in prime time, Both of our non-white hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Fang on the weekend. And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces now. That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it. Well, so now Matt out calling our own network, which is NBC Comcast, racist. It's not racist. It's afraid. Comcast is afraid of Trump.
Starting point is 00:27:10 That's why these people get booed, not because they're black or whatever. But I'll tell you, I'll tell you this. Ms. Maddow is about as misguided as they come. I don't watch her very much because I know what the song is going to be. Once you hear a song 10,000 times, you don't want to hear it anymore. She got guts, though. I'll tell you that. You got going on there and saying that?
Starting point is 00:27:36 And they can't do a thing to her. They can't touch her. John Stewart. So Stuart, pretty much out of the game, but he's still in the bubble. I know Stewart pretty well, and you know my history with him, and I like him. And every time I go on his show or vice versa, it always works. And he is respectful, and I respect him. Now he lives in a left-wing liberal bubble.
Starting point is 00:28:05 That's where he lives, all right? But he's not a hater so much. He's passionate about his belief system, but I never seen the hatred there. He's only on one day a week on Comedy Central now. He doesn't really look like he wants to do this anymore, but he's still amazingly talented. So the other day, he goes on television and he's really angry about the federal government, both Biden and Trump, not being able to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to bring down the cost of prescription drugs.
Starting point is 00:28:40 And I agree 100% with that. 100%. The federal government has got to get these pharmaceutical companies to be more reasonable, because people are suffering and they can't get the drugs. Now, yeah, these American companies invest billions of dollars to develop the drugs. We have it.
Starting point is 00:29:04 But they have a responsibility to the folks. stewards crazed about this go the companies we subsidized with billions of dollars are allowing us the the privilege to negotiate the price of 10 of their drugs and 10 is all of them right it would be embarrassing if it was a small drop in the bucket and that the american people didn't expect that we should negotiate for all their fucking drugs because we've already paid for with our sons and he's going to be going to the hospital. Well, we hope he's okay. Steward's condition, he got stitches and look.
Starting point is 00:30:02 He's passionate about it. I like that. I a few times got a little feisty on air myself. Hello, Barney Frank. Hello, Geraldo. I know I know exactly what he's doing, Stuart. I'm going to do a more extensive analysis on him on our YouTube channel. I'll tell you about that in a moment.
Starting point is 00:30:29 You want to sign up for that. and concierge and premium membership on bill o'reilly.com all three of those will enhance your life but anyway that's what stewart has been up to smart live fast food so there is a website called barbecue lab no idea no idea i have no idea but they put out a fast food survey okay and they ask all guess thousands of americans about fast food and here's what they come up with one third of the entire american population eats fast food on any given day. That seems high to me. People ages 20, 39 eat the most. Men consume more than women. 83% of American families eat at a fast food restaurant once a week. 83%. That sounds high to me.
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Starting point is 00:32:58 fat if you eat a lot of fast food. You will. That's just a fact. And you have a 50% higher chance of dying from heart disease if you eat fast food on a regular basis. All right? Don't you like that in the smart life thing?
Starting point is 00:33:14 I don't eat it anymore. I can't remember the last time I went to a fast food place. No, I can't. I was in California, over Christmas vacation, in and out burger. It was so good, I can't even describe it. That was the last time. I do eat pizza once a week.
Starting point is 00:33:36 My limit my pizza to once a week. All right, we have a poll on Bill O'Reilly.com about the booing. Okay, so you remember Donald Trump is giving Canada a little jazz, a little poke, saying that it should be the 51st state. 51st state and in a hockey game between the USA and Canada. Here's what happened. Go. All right, so we have a poll.
Starting point is 00:34:09 Are you upset with Canadians for booing the U.S. national anthem? A lot of people voted. Yes, 60%, no, 40%. All right? I am not upset. If I are Canadian, I'd probably vote boo too. If Trudeau said, hey, America is the worst country in the world, we hate you, and then they Play-Doh Canada, I'd probably boo.
Starting point is 00:34:32 So I can't be hypocrite here. I was saying, in history, February 26, 1987, 38 years ago, Ronald Reagan is scolded publicly by the U.S. Senate, Iran contra. Here's what happened. So you will remember that Reagan was inaugurated in 1981. And the day he was inaugurated, Iran released the hostages, 52 of them, that Jimmy Carter couldn't get released. That's one of the reasons Carter lost Reagan. Subsequently, some members of the Reagan administration made a deal with the Mullahs that we would sell Iran weapons for cash, ponied up cash. And then when the cash came to D.C., it was given to the Contras in Icaragua. Now, that deal was not sanctioned by Congress. It was illegal. Illegal to do that. Oliver North did
Starting point is 00:35:38 it. Colonel Oliver North. He was a member of the Reagan administration. and he had the power to make this deal apparently and um brigants they didn't know anything about it okay now north was charged with crimes he was convicted uh aiding and abetting obstruction of congress destroying documents accepting illegal gratuities never went to prison his conviction was overturned um but it was bad very bad so the tower commission came to this conclusion. Okay? Quote, President Reagan appears to have proceeded with the concept of the initiative that was not accurately reflected in the reality of the operation. President did not seem aware of the way in which the operation was implemented and the full consequences of U.S.
Starting point is 00:36:32 participation, unquote. And that is true. If you read confronting the presidents and killing Reagan, we show you that Reagan's management style was not micro. He didn't know what they were doing. Anyway, Reagan got scolded by the Senate 38 years ago today. Back with a final thought in a moment. Here is a final thought of the day. We are off tomorrow. Two reasons. My staff worked, Martin Luther King and President's Day, so I owe them.
Starting point is 00:37:02 And Holly is not in great shape. It's got swelling on the brain. So last night I was up most of the night with the dog. and I stabilized her. I should be a vet now. I got great vets, and we're trying to keep Holly alive. This is basically the bottom line on this.
Starting point is 00:37:23 And she was better today, much better, but I got to spend a lot of time on this. Now, Holly is part of the family, and you're the same thing. If you have pets, they're part of the family. And my philosophy is I have an obligation to protect anyone in my charge. That doesn't just mean, family members means anybody in my sphere, my obligation is to protect them. And that extends
Starting point is 00:37:50 to Holly. So I'm going to do everything in my power. So last night was a rough one. And I got to monitor the next few days. That's what we will do. St. Francis would take all kinds of prayers to him, patron saint of all the animals. And, you know, I tell you this. because I want to be up front about it. You know, we're not just slacking off tomorrow. There's a reason. And I'm glad my staff is getting a breather as well. So we'd like you to at outbillowrally.com. Come out and see us on a tour. We'll have a lot of laughs. We'll have some fun and become a premium or concierge member and get a free book, any book you want. So we're trying. I think you know that. And we'll see you again on Monday.

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