Bill O'Reilly Tears Into Trump Over Maggie Haberman Book: 'He Gave Her 3 Interviews' After 'She Slas

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Bill O’Reilly Tears Into Trump Over Maggie Haberman Book: ‘He Gave Her 3 Interviews’ After ‘She Slashed Him For Six Years!’

By Tommy Christopher/Mediaite.com

Former Fox News host and current author/podcaster Bill O’Reilly bitterly complained to NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo about Maggie Haberman‘s “Hate Trump book” Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.

On Wednesday night’s edition of NewsNation’s CUOMO, O’Reilly packed a lot of bile into a few seconds when he trashed Haberman’s tome for allegedly keeping his own book out of the top spot, accused her of having written “like 18” such “Hate” books (O’Reilly — author of 12 books about “Killing” various people — is incorrect, Haberman has written two books), and ripped former President Donald Trump for granting Haberman three interviews despite her years of “slashing” him.

It all started when host Cuomo observed that Trump has “made it easy to pursue him”:

CHRIS CUOMO: The president made it easy to pursue him by what he did and by what people around him did.

BILL O’REILLY: I’m not going to argue that.

CHRIS CUOMO: Doesn’t mean that there are crimes.

BILL O’REILLY: I’m not going to argue that.

CHRIS CUOMO: But he made it easy.

BILL O’REILLY: I would never argue that.

CHRIS CUOMO: All right. Good. Then we’re agreed.

BILL O’REILLY: Look. CUOMO Yes, we agree on that. But let me give you one real quick one and you’ll love this. CUOMO You will love this. The reason my book, Killing the Legends is it number one is because Maggie Haberman book, another Hate Trump book, and she’s written like 18 of them, all right is number one. Now, Trump gave her three interviews! To a woman who has slashed him for six years! So you are absolutely correct when you say Trump makes it easy for these people to slash him. He does. How about that?

CHRIS CUOMO: I’m not disputing that. You know, if he had said things differently, if he had said less, he would have had less heat.

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Comment: Mediaite is not a great source of news and information. And either is Bill O'Reilly, who still thinks he's important. (Keith Olbermann needs to take him down again.) But I love the fact that O'Reilly complains about his "Killing" book being kept from the top of the best-seller book charts. Does anyone but right-wing mongrels take his stupid books seriously? They aren't history books and never were, though O'Reilly seems to think he's an historian. And with the rapid release of all these "Killing" books, does anyone believe he actually wrote them? And I had to go back to the video to see if he said, "Doesn’t mean that there are crimes." Amazingly enough, he did. Wonder if he would have done that pandering to O'Reilly on CNN?''

Oh, the article points out Haberman has not written 18 Trump books, but only 2. I guess all those newspaper articles seem like books to Bill-O The Clown.

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1. I certainly don't recall her slashing him. More like...

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she was an ally embedded in his camp IMO.

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3. Have you read any of "Confidence Man"?

I'm currently listening to the audio. It's not a whitewash.

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5. I'm referring to her reporting during his disastrous reign.

I'm no fan of hers and won't be reading her book to find out how much she withheld for it.

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6. I just looked on the Times site. She was very forceful then.

As for what's in the book, journalism is a process of discovery. If she had purposely held out material to make money on the book, she wouldn't have a job right now. There's such a thing as ethics in journalism. Maybe not in politics, but in journalism there is. (And that's not counting Fox, which is all fake news.)

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7. Not my first rodeo with this. It's well know both Woodward and...

Bolton held back info for their books. Bolton is not a journalist but Woodward certainly is and is still with WAPO.

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2. She carried his water for 6 years would be a more appropriate statement

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4. Funny ... Trump says he isn't a member of her fan club.

"Here we go again! Another Fake book is out, this one, supposedly very boring and stale, by self appointed head case, Failing (unfunded liability!) New York Times writer, Maggie Hagerman. In it she tells many made up stories, with zero fact checking or confirmation by anyone who would know, like me. In one case she lies about me wanting to fire my daughter, Ivanka, and Jared. WRONG, pure fiction. Never even crossed my mind. Just have to fight trouble making creeps like Maggie, and all the rest!"

Link: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-lashes-out-at-maggie-hagerman-with-whom-he-granted-three-interviews-very-boring-and-stale-book/

She's a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for her stories on him. She doesn't get that by kissing his tail.