RADIOMay 23, 2022

Bill O’Reilly: Biden’s border mess is a DERELICTION OF DUTY

Biden’s failure at our southern border goes far beyond incompetence, Bill O’Reilly tells Glenn: ‘The President of the United States does not know what he’s doing.’ It’s the only way to explain why Joe hasn’t given Governor Abbott a SINGLE phone call about the issue, despite the fact that an estimated 3 MILLION migrants will enter Texas this fiscal year. O’Reilly predicts that Biden’s border mess is such a dereliction of duty, that it could be enough for Republicans to IMPEACH him next year...

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BILL: Okay. And this is going to make you and Stu, push your chins up.

GLENN: Okay. Stu is out -- Stu is out having surgery. And so Pat is --

BILL: Oh, I'm sorry. He's okay, though?

GLENN: Yeah. He's fine. He was in a knife fight with a pimp. But he's all right.

PAT: Yeah. It's before.

GLENN: Yeah. I know. I know. Several times. But we usually don't talk about it. But go ahead. Biggest story of the week, Bill?

BILL: Yeah. So Waters asked the governor of Texas, Abbott, has the president of the United States Joe Biden called you, about the crisis on the border, since he took office?

What do you think the answer was?

GLENN: No.

BILL: Now, why is this important? Number one, 3 million foreign nationals are estimated to cross just into Texas. This year. This fiscal year.

And a president doesn't call the governor of the state, that has to deal with that? One time?

So everybody listening goes, oh, he's just incompetent. He doesn't know.

It's not that. And I keep telling everybody this. And few believe me. I think you do, Beck. But I'm not sure.

The president of the United States does not know what he is doing. He is incapable of assimilating -- word of the day -- information.

You can tell him something, and he'll look at you, and maybe he'll understand what you're saying. But two minutes later, he will forget it.

So Biden, who has not been to the border. Another unbelievable occurrence. When you add up the human toll of this, plus the narcotics traffic. That's killing hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. You add it up, this is a catastrophe!

GLENN: So, Bill, what is --

BILL: He won't even --

GLENN: What are we supposed to do? Because I don't believe the Constitution is a death pact. You know, it's is not a suicide pact. And this is an invasion, and the government is doing nothing.

BILL: Nothing.

GLENN: And the government has the constitutional responsibility for the border. Not the states. So that's what's kept the states out of it.

But, again, are we in a constitutional suicide pact? What should the state do?

BILL: No. Beck, you elect the president. He comes into office. Americans have this idealistic view of that.

Many times, you elect someone who is destructive to the country. All right?

I mean, many times, not a few. Many. So what happens now? Well, everybody can whine and complain, and talk about it. But what happens is this: In November, there's a course correction possible. Whereby the American people would say, I recognize what a disaster Joe Biden is. And I'm sorry, he's the president. And if I voted for him, I made a mistake. So now I'm going to correct that mistake. And I'm going to give Congress, the authority to deal with Biden.

That's our system. That's how the Founders set it up. So I fully expect that the Republicans will take both houses of Congress. I'll be shocked, if that doesn't happen. Because of inflation, primarily. And the economy.

GLENN: Right.

BILL: That's the driver of the vote. But second is the border. Now, once the Republicans take over, I can assure you, articles of impeachment will be drawn up in January and February 2023 against Biden on this issue. Dereliction of duty. You can read the message of the day, at BillO'Reilly.com. And I know you do. It's free. Everybody can read it. He's the commander of chief. This is dereliction of duty. Just like a corporal, or a sergeant, be if they were in the field, with the military unit, and they didn't follow orders, that's dereliction of duty. This is dereliction of duty. Does everybody get this?

Biden is president, but he's also the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. So you can impeach on those grounds. Now, will he be convicted in the Senate?

Probably not. But it will be such a hammer blow to the country. The Trump impeachment were jokes. That everybody knew what that was. Set up by Pelosi. On any grounds at all. To embarrass Trump.

This is much more serious, because the numbers are there. The deaths are there. Verifiable. It's not a phone call to Zelinsky in Ukraine.

This is people dying every day, because their government will not stop the importation of deadly narcotics from Mexico. That's what this is.

And that is why, this is the story of the week.

GLENN: Okay. Let me -- let me take you here. You know, you say I would be surprised if the Democrats, you know, held control. I would be too. It's just, what is it going to look like as it gets there? The hounding of right-wing extremists in the media, and how this is the most extreme political party. The right. Political party, ever. They are -- they are not only just stirring it up like they have been. But they are now also enacting through Fiat, the -- through the agencies. All kinds of things, to -- to set up an encounter with extremists. And be able to isolate, and, you know -- and label people.

I mean, it's -- I've never seen anything like this.

BILL: No. It's desperation! And it's enabled by the media, who loves the story. But it's not going to lead anywhere.

Look, the next time, you hear Biden get out there and say, white supremacy is the biggest danger to this country. Number one, please read killing it is killers. Because the jihadists are -- are way more dangerous than the white supremacists. But here's the question you ask: If that's true, Mr. President, why hasn't the president made any cases against white supremacists or organizations, thereof?

GLENN: Hmm.

BILL: None. Why! If it's that big a threat. If it's everywhere pervasive, you would think the FBI would be perp-walking him every day. Would you not?

GLENN: Yeah. I mean, you would at least feel like it did after September 11th, you know.

BILL: Yeah. I mean, this is such a propaganda ploy. And, you know, I'm going to submit to you most Americans know it. They know it's BS. They know it. And then when the Producer Price Index comes out. And, again, it's not reported. Nobody knows what it is. And says, hey. We're almost over 10 percent. That's passed on to consumers. That's three more months!

GLENN: Yeah.

BILL: Of rising inflation, and that's up to November.

GLENN: Yeah. We haven't seen anything with inflation yet. People don't understand. It's still ahead of us. What you're feeling right now, is -- is in the past. What's coming is much worse.

BILL: You know what Biden is going to have to do?

GLENN: What? Price controls. That's what he's going to try to do.

BILL: Price controls. Absolutely.

See, Beck, you're much smarter than you look.

GLENN: No, I know. I know. I'm deceiving that way.

BILL: Yeah.

GLENN: All right. Back in just a second. More with Bill O'Reilly.

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WARNING: How America Elects a Socialist President in 2028 | Glenn TV | Ep 444

The rise of Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old socialist who just won the Democratic primary for mayor, is not just a political earthquake shaking New York City — it’s a warning for the rest of America. Backed by Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the Democratic Socialists of America, Mamdani promises free everything, to tax the rich, and to dismantle capitalism. There’s nothing new about this tired strategy, but the media is propping him up as a new political genius. And with Democrat leaders lining up behind him, it’s clear: This radicalism isn’t fringe anymore. It’s the Democratic Party’s future. Mamdani’s rise is part of a larger movement that’s rewriting America’s values. Glenn Beck explains how New York is the prototype for the Left’s socialist makeover of America. Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Standford, gives a terrifying prediction on Mamdani’s mayoral race chances and warns the revolution is coming for mainstream Democrats. He also dives into MAGA’s frustration with the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files.

Salena Zito reveals WHY Trump said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.

SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?

SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.