Hi BillOReilly.com Premium Members welcome to the No Spin News for the 19th of July 2018. Take your country back. 

So, I'm speaking to you on audio from County Cavan Ireland where my ancestors lived and were forced off their land and arrived in the United States in the 1840s. I'll tell you that story, it's a very compelling story and I went there to their farm today. It was a real detective work to try to find it, we did and it was an extraordinary experience. But that's coming up. 

First, I want to give you the headline of the day and it is that Donald Trump, President of the United States has now decided to run against the press in 2020. Now, I mentioned this yesterday, I'm going to expand upon it today. Sounds kind of crazy but it isn't. There is no leader of the Democratic Party, there's nobody really in charge of the party, nobody who can galvanize public opinion. Trump is far and away the largest political person in the world not only in the United States and its close. Putin would be second. 

Now, the problem with Donald Trump as president is that this is a whole new experience for him. No, he has no background for it. He doesn't understand a lot of the job, he's learning as he goes along. And it didn't go well with Putin in Helsinki and that's a fact. So and I'll tell you in a minute why it didn't go well. But the United States, the American people decided to elect a guy with no political experience because there were so fed up with all the politicians who had been there forever and not delivering for the people. 

So after President Obama for eight years and the things that happened in the country the majority of Americans as far as the electoral vote is concerned, said we need to get rid of the establishment and get a guy in there to blow everything up, that's called draining the swamp. OK. So when you get a new guy in there he's going to make mistakes and boy has Donald Trump made mistakes and most of them are emotional mistakes. Although the Putin one was a tactical error, it was a tactical error. 

So you go back and you look at Donald Trump's trip to NATO and to Europe and he swaggers into NATO and he basically tells them you've got to pay more money for your own defense and you've got to give us a better trade deal because you're taking advantage and have for decades and then this is going to end. So he, he has his rap down and he delivered it the way it was designed. Now a lot of people didn't like it but that's Trump. Trump wants better trade deals and he wants more fair treatment of the United States around the world and that resonates with Trump voters. So that part of it was controversial but it wasn't anything more than that in fact everybody's forgotten about that. 

So then he segues on over to Finland and he meets with one of the most heinous men in the world, Vladimir Putin. And if you, if you step back and you look at Putin and all the places that he has harmed in the world and if you look at the opposition to Putin and Russia and many of them get killed and I mean it's just, he's a gangster and he's a killer and everybody knows that, U.S. intel knows it, all the world leaders know it and they really try to stay away from Putin. But Trump feels that he can manage Putin, handle Putin, all right. Now we can't. So there is a fundamental mistake right there. 

So Donald Trump is more powerful than Putin as President of the United States, that's true. But he's not going to be able to handle this guy because Putin is a devious career politician who thinks five steps ahead of where he is. So when the summit goes along basically the Putin line is always we didn't do it. I mean the Russian military shot down a Malaysian airliner, you remember that? Very few people do. Killing all aboard, 300 and some odd people over Ukrainian airspace, just shot it out of the sky. Putin, we didn't do it. There's nobody on earth who could have done it but Russia, the only ones that the equipment in place. They did it. Putin says he didn't do it. That was what five-six years ago. That shows you who Putin says he's never going to admit to doing anything. So it's exactly what he does to Trump, we didn't mess around in your election, that would be crazy, we wouldn't do that. Well, the U.S. intel has come up with all kinds of fingerprints on hacking by the Russian intelligence agencies. 

So, Trump is presented with that evidence and then he listens to Putin and he gives moral equivalency to both sides. Huge mistake, huge tactical mistake! You can't do that. You can't say well Vlad says he didn't do it when you know when U.S. intel has pinpointed fingerprints on the hacking. But Trump did it and Trump did it because he wants a deal with Putin, he wants better relations with Russia and he wants certain things in the Middle East, certain things with Israel. All right. He wants to be Nixon. Nixon opened up China, Nixon dealt with Russia fairly effectively, that is what Trump wants. 

So anyway, by giving them moral equivalency that, well Vlad says this, the U.S. intel says that, the press goes crazy and it's not reportage because this story is a big story but it's not the end of the world, so what Trump makes a mistake in his assessment. So what. Well listen to the press, he's a traitor, you got to get him out of there, you got to do this, you got to do that, you got to impeach. It's all bull. The press is invested in removing Donald Trump from office. That's it. And the hatred this week has reached a crescendo, the highest point ever. Not only of hatred of Donald Trump but a hatred of any president in the history of the republic. I mean I'm over here in Ireland watching this and I can't believe some of this stuff. Magazine covers and entertainers and the straight press so-called straight press, there is not straight press anymore. Except for what you're listening to right now. I'm one of the few people in the country that's going to give you an honest analysis of what's happening and that's why you're here. So it's Donald Trump versus the media in 2020 and Trump knows it and Trump is going to play that card. 

So a Gallup poll comes out today, seventy nine percent of Republicans don't have any problem with what Trump in Europe and in Helsinki, Finland which is technically Europe but it's almost Asia. 79 percent of his supporters say you know what, not a big deal but independents and Democrats obviously feel it is because they're driven by the press reports. Now, this will subside as I predicted I think next week. But the press will not stop hating Donald Trump. They won't. I mean this is really some insane stuff, if you read this stuff out there now. There's no pretense of being fair or factual, it's Trump did this, Trump did that, he has to get out, he has to go.

Now, if I'm Donald Trump and I'm Trump's advisers I basically shut it down now, shut it down. I don't try to defend myself anymore I don't attack the press anymore. I shut it down and then I go on to whatever else is in the White House cycle next week. All right so this week you got you've got to deal with it it's Thursday now, you get a deal with it Friday, probably over the weekend. Come Monday, it's old news and I go on because Trump's basic premise is that he's going to improve the economy which is happening and improve national security. So he's going to get to build the wall, at least part of it. 

He's got to start though to think ahead when he makes a judgment about what should happen what the fallout is going to be. He's got to make it harder for the haters, make it harder for the haters. So, as far as you're concerned the American person, is it's unpleasant, all over the world people think we're crazy, the United States is a crazy place. It's not of course they still love us in Ireland, they still love us here. But you know the European press is very left to me you know Trump is this, Trump is that. But all that doesn't really matter anymore, it doesn't matter what matters is that we have a more efficient federal government that Donald Trump himself becomes more efficient and cuts down on the mistakes and then he's got to run against the media in 2020. And at this point I think he beats the media, no matter who the Democrats nominate, the media will campaign for that person. So, he's running against the media really at this point, he can't make too many more mistakes, there can't be too many more Helsinki's. He's got to cut those down. But that's where we are. All right. 

So I'm over here in a County Cavan Ireland, beautiful place, we've had fabulous weather. It's been a very, very good vacation. In 1845 the O'Reilly family were tenant farmers, which means that they had land that they tentatively owned but they had to pay tax on the land through their British overseers. Now, remember Ireland was basically run by the British, that's why today many Irish hate the British. 

In World War II, Ireland wouldn't even fight alongside the British against Hitler, that's how deep the hatred is. So the O'Reilly's were in this little village called Clonoose where I went today and I posted some pictures on the website and they had a couple acres and they eked out a living. Now, in the 14th century, Hugh O'Reilly was the king of County Cavan not a king crown but he ran the place and we just came back from his fort outside Cavan city, Hugh O'Reilly was the man but when the British came in they took all the O'Reilly land and there's tons of O'Reilly's in Cavan and they gave it back so that they could eke out a living as a tenant farmer. 

So in 1845, the O'Reilly family could not pay the tax, couldn't pay it, didn't have it and that's when the beginning of the famine the potato crop was failing. So they got thrown off the land evicted and I have a newspaper article and it wasn't just the O'Reilly's, it was other families, the British overseers threw them off the land and seized it, confiscated the land because they couldn't pay the taxes. There were twin boys in the family, the father had died and the mother couldn't feed the kids. Twin boys are 16 years old, John and James and they were desperate because they didn't have any money and now they didn't have any food because they grew food to eat it and they were thrown off the land. So they went to Galway, which you know was a heavy journey at that time by coach and the mom put the boys on a ship bound for New York, Brooklyn, New York and they never saw their mother again. As I said the father was dead at that point, probably died of labor and the O'Reilly boys came to Brooklyn where they stayed until 1995, 150 years. My family stayed in Brooklyn. Now some of the people of course went out and went to other places but I am the only one in 150 years to break out of the working and middle class, the only O'Reilly from that side of the family. 

So we traced it to Clonoose, the village and I went there and walked the fields today. And I went to the cemetery where I saw all the dead O'Reilly's and it was a hard, hard life here and that's the beginning of my family on my father's side. Someday I'll tell you about my mother's side, they came over right after the Mayflower. They were real early in America but the O'Reilly boys came over in 1845, whereupon we started our white privilege. Right? Now all of our white privilege started when they had nothing to eat in Ireland and had to go on a boat where the casualty rate on the boat, the death rate on the boat was like forty five percent. People were dying all over the place they just threw them overboard from disease and they didn't feed them very well and all that. So it was really an emotional day and I have spent a long time researching and I have to thank NPR, not NPR, PBS. Sorry about that, PBS they did the search on me and my heritage and gave me all kinds of clues and we narrowed it down in Clonoose, where we were today and took some pictures so that you could see them. 

So that's why I'm here and I hope you get to do the same thing with your family. It's very interesting to know where you started and then when somebody says O'Reilly you have white privilege and I just look at them you know, you couldn't have started lower or harder than the O'Reilly's did in America. Sixteen years old, could you imagine that. They show up to a country and they don't know anybody you know and they were laborers, they got off the boat, you know some other people from County Cavan were in Brooklyn and gave them shelter for a little while, they got jobs building stuff and they built stuff and built it and that how O'Reilly's came to America legally. Ok. There wasn't anything illegal about it. The railroads and the infrastructure of New York City needed laborers they needed, they needed the Irish to do the work but they treated them horribly and you know the story. So that's it. 

Now on Monday I'll be back on TV, we'll be in the studio in New York City and I'll read some letters and answer any questions. You guys who are Concierge Members, we'll start that up again on Monday, so if you have questions please send them to me and the Concierge kicks in on Monday, for the rest of summer. I'm not going anywhere else this summer. I'll be out in eastern Long Island but I'm not going to travel so we'll have and I got to get back because there's so much insanity and I know that people are very upset and worried about our country. So I got to get back and I got to start to methodically run it down which we will do. 

So thank you for being BillOReilly.com Premium Members, I hope you have a terrific weekend. We'll be updating everything so check back in with us. We'll open up some of our commentary so people can hear it and I will see you on Monday.

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