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Bill O’Reilly: FBI was looking for THIS during Trump raid

We don’t yet know what the government took from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home during the FBI raid earlier this month, nor do we know what specifically they were looking for. But Bill O’Reilly has some guesses. First, O’Reilly tells Glenn it’s ‘ABSURD’ to think the FBI was looking for documents on the Russian collusion hoax that the former president could later use to squash the far-left: ‘Trump’s attorney’s have all of those things in computers.’ So what DOES O’Reilly believe the FBI was searching for? He gives his own theory in this clip…

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GLENN: What are your thoughts on the latest Revelations and Donald Trump's tweet yesterday, about the documents, that he said, would have exonerated him, and that's what they were really after.

BILL: First of all, Beck. You all right? Everything good.

GLENN: I'm good. Oh, I'm great.

BILL: Yeah. It's hot down there though, right?

GLENN: It's a little warm. Yeah, a little warm.

BILL: Yeah. Okay.

So, look, I don't know what the government took. No one does. I don't know what Trump had. I don't know. I don't know -- I don't know.

So let me tell you something I do know. This is not going well for the Department of Justice. It's not going well. And the indicator on that, is that Joe Biden has disappeared. Now, he's gone. We don't know what he's doing.

We know where he is. Because you have to know where the president is. But for the past two and a half weeks, Joe has not been around. No statements. You know, he finds the ridiculous inflation-reducing bill. Which, of course, won't reduce inflation. I'm going to -- on my radio program every day, I'm changing the name from the O'Reilly update to I'm going to give you a million dollars. You can say anything you want now. Right?

So my new radio program is, I'm going to give a million dollars. Even though it's not true.

GLENN: Right. Well, how could the government stop you from doing it?

BILL: Yeah. If the federal government would say, we're going to reduce inflation by spending half a trillion dollars. I can say on your radio show, I'm going to give a million dollars. It's so absurd. So crazy. So if the Justice Department had justification for this unbelievable raid. The highest profile, criminal raid in the history of the United States. Do you realize that, Beck? There's never been a higher profile federal raid, than this.

GLENN: Well, because we've never done it to a president before. It doesn't -- that's the number one job in the country.

BILL: That is right, very good. This is the highest profile criminal raid ever.

And they will tell us why -- what they -- what they're looking for. What the justification was.

GLENN: So it --

BILL: Fighting any kind of exposition, to tell the folks, why they did what they did.

GLENN: So this is according to -- this is according to Newsweek.

The FBI collected all the documents that were government property, used concerns about classified documents to justify the raid. But agents were looking for Trump's personal stash, containing the documents relating to Russian collusion accusations against him, fearing that he would weaponize them according to Newsweek. One -- one former Trump official said, he may have planned to use the documents to have helped in a presidential run in the coming term. Trump was particularly interested in matters related to the Russian hoax and the wrongdoings of the Deep State. I think he felt, and I agree, that these facts are facts the American people need to know.

BILL: That's ridiculous. Newsweek is absurd. That's why it's out of business. And it doesn't have a magazine on the stands anymore.

Donald Trump's attorneys have all of those things, okay? They have them in a computer. All of the documents, that show and I'm sure there are thousands of them -- corruption, lies in the Justice Department, and Russian collusion, are in the hands of Donald Trump's attorneys. The FBI does not need to go in and grab paper so that Donald Trump doesn't know what he has in his basement. You're following me here?

It's a totally absurd premise. So Trump does have information that was compiled, that will show the corruption of the FBI during Russian collusion. That exists.

But it is in the hands of his attorneys. They have it. It's not like there's one piece of paper. And, oh, give me that piece of paperback back. No. That's not how it works!

And Lindsey doesn't know what it's doing. I think it's run by -- the Tuttle Twins run it now. But it should -- insane. You know, I'm sitting there going, you know, I'm listening to all these reports. I'm going, this is so crazy. I can't even imagine it.

GLENN: Well, it's coming kind of from Donald Trump's camp.

BILL: No. But that's what I'm saying: Donald Trump's camp wants Americans to believe that this raid was designed to cover up X, Y, and Z.

That's what Donald Trump's camp wants people to believe. So why wouldn't they put it out?

GLENN: So then --

BILL: They have documents. They being the Donald Trump organization. He has them.

Now, me, I don't know whether he's going to use them in a book or use them in a lawsuit. I don't know what he's going to do. Okay?

But this raid of the FBI, wasn't predicated on that. It was pretty indicated on a fishing expedition tied to January 6. That's what they -- that's why they did this. They were looking for any kind of documentation, that Trump was involved with the planning and/or encouraged the incursion into the Capitol.

That's what this is all about, Beck.

GLENN: All right. Let me -- let me change topics to Liz Cheney.

The headline today is if not for Democratic voters, Cheney's loss would have been worse. So we know a lot of Democrats crossed over and voted for Lynne Cheney. Is -- was that just a -- or Liz Cheney.

Is that just a -- a cheap political trick. Or is that a sign that the Democrats in Wyoming wouldn't mind somebody like Lynne Cheney who is a little more conservative, you know, and -- but against Donald Trump.

BILL: Look, Cheney lost by 40 points. Four, zero. I've never seen a wax like that ever, for an incumbent politician. Okay?

So maybe eight Democrats in Wyoming somewhere up around Cody, voted for Liz. Maybe she brought them a snack.

But the fact of the matter is, remember, an open primary, anybody can vote for anybody. So if the people of Wyoming thought that Liz Cheney was representing them in an effective way, she would have won. But they don't. Why?

Very simple. She allied herself with Nancy Pelosi. The devil in Wyoming, Beck.

GLENN: Right. So let me -- let me change subjects. Something Stu and I were talking about.

Mitch McConnell is getting hammered by some conservatives. Because he said, look, the Senate. It's not a done deal. I don't think it is a done deal. I think -- I wouldn't count this out. I think you have to overwhelm the ballot box, this -- this fall to be able to have any kind of red wave, even in the House.

Don't take this as a done deal. Is -- the polls are said to be tightening. Do you believe that's, A, true?

And do you believe that's because of people are for the Democrats, just not Joe Biden?

BILL: Number one, polls don't matter, until late September. So these polls are foolish. And everybody should ignore them. Number two, it's all about the cabinets.

So I don't think Ize (phonetic) is going to win Pennsylvania. And that's a winnable race, Republicans there.

GLENN: Yeah.

BILL: That's a winnable race. But I don't think he's going to win.

GLENN: Why is that? Donald Trump was betting that he was a guy that everybody knew and name recognition on TV. People trusted him.

BILL: Yeah. Yeah, but this is a -- a skilled set game, campaigning. And it doesn't look to me that he has a grasp of what people in Pennsylvania really are concerned about. And because maybe he lives in New Jersey, and that's why he doesn't have to. He's not going to win. He's kicked off the board.

I did see a poll. Again, I'm contradicting myself a little bit. Because the polls don't really matter now, where Vance in Ohio is now up. It's surprising because he's another bad candidate.

Arizona, that's a real -- oh, boy. Down there.

GLENN: Why? You don't like masters?

BILL: Kelly. I don't know him. But Kelly is a name. And a lot of sympathy attached.

GLENN: Sure. Sure.

BILL: And with the women vote, that matters. And Gabby Giffords will be out campaigning. That's a tough one. I think we'll win in Nevada. I think New Hampshire could go to the Republicans. A guy up there looks like he's got a grasp on the live free, or die state. It's all about retail politics, Beck. You know that. Convincing the people. Might be skeptical of you. That you are looking out for them. And, you know, the national polling doesn't really matter.

You've got to be a very, very good campaigner. Here in New York, we have a gubernatorial race. Kathy Hochul, perhaps the worst politician I have ever seen in my entire life. All right? She makes Cuomo look like Abraham Lincoln. That's how bad --

GLENN: No. No. That is -- Abraham Lincoln is Liz Cheney. Get your --

BILL: Yeah. Whatever, Liz. And pop -- she's going to take Brian Stelter's place on CNN, by the way. Liz Cheney.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. If it's not there, she'll be on The View.

BILL: Not -- the View wouldn't take her, but CNN would.

Anyway, so Zeldin, the congressman here where I am right now in Suffolk County, New York, is running against Hochul, to the one registration favoring Democrats in New York. Zeldin has a chance, because he's running on crime.

Crime and taxes. And here in New York. It's just -- everybody is crazed about the violent crime here.

GLENN: Because he keeps letting people go. Just letting people go.

BILL: Yeah. Here's how bad it is. And this is in New York, where you used to live. All you hear from liberal Democrats in New York is gun control. Go here.

Guns, guns. Got to get them off. Confiscate everybody's guns.

If you are a criminal caught with an illegal weapon on your person in New York City, they do not give you bail. You can go right out. You go into the station. They take your gun. They photograph you. They say, show up in three weeks, which you, of course, never will. And you walk out the door. So if you're --

GLENN: Bill, Bill, when I was there, it was 20 years prison and everyone said, automatic. Don't care who you are. You're caught with a gun, that you don't have the license for. Not an illegal gun, you don't have a concealed carry permit, automatic jail. They don't even ask questions.

BILL: It was much tougher. Now you have Hochul -- guns, guns, got to ban them, ban them, ban them. Nobody can have them. But if you're an illegal criminal and you have a gun, oh, we're not going to punish you.

Okay. Thanks. You know, I'm -- I can't give you a better, more stark example of corruption, than that. So Zeldin has a chance because you run a populist campaign. That's what you have to do here. I don't know Mitch McConnell. I don't know what he's doing. I never liked him. He killed Kate's Law single-handedly. You'll remember that.

GLENN: Yeah.

BILL: Almost had it done. He killed it.

I don't have any respect for him. I hope that if the Republicans get the Senate, they boot him, and put somebody in that was going to be looking out for the folks.

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INSIDE Trump’s soul: How a bullet changed his heart forever

“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.