by V Saxena
Two months ago former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly revealed the existence
of a tape that he claims shows what he described as “an anti-Trump
attorney” offering a woman $200,000 during the presidential election
last year to issue false sexual harassment claims against then-GOP nominee Donald Trump.
“It exists,” he said to Newsmax
at the time. “We have urged the person who has the tape to hand it over
to the U.S. attorney, because my investigative team believes there are
three separate crimes on the audio tape.”
On Friday, O’Reilly doubled down on that claim during an interview with conservative talk show host Glenn Beck, though he declined to offer a deadline for when the tape might finally be released.
“There is an audiotape of an anti-Trump person offering $200,000 to a woman to accuse Donald Trump of untoward behavior,” he said. When Beck asked whether this tape will ever be released, O’Reilly replied by maintaining that he “may have to go to the U.S. attorney” himself. “I don’t want to have to do that and inject myself into the story … but I had my lawyer listen to the tape,” O’Reilly said. “There are at least three crimes on the tape. So as a citizen, I may have to do this.” He cautioned, though, that the tape isn’t in his possession but rather with “someone who knows the seriousness of this situation.”
Then, Beck asked, why won’t this mysterious someone simply release the tape to the public?
“I can’t really get into that at this point, but I can tell you, Donald
Trump knows about the tape,” O’Reilly said. “And I, for the life of me,
am sitting here going, ‘Why on Earth are you allowing a movement to
try to smear you when you have such a powerful piece of evidence that
shows this is an industry — that there are false charges and money
changing hands?'”
My honest recommendation to O’Reilly would be to try his hardest to
obtain a copy of the tape and then simply distribute the copy to
conservative media.
The fact is that talk is cheap, and allegations come easy. It’s only
surefire, indisputable evidence that’ll make any difference against the
left’s ongoing war on our president.