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By ESME CRIBB Published SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 10:39 AM
Former Fox News host Bill OReilly in an interview published Wednesday said President Donald Trump perhaps does not know sufficient history to make nuanced comments about Nazis.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, OReilly said Trumps mistake in his remarks splitting the blame for violence that erupted at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville was that you can never under any circumstances equate Nazis with anyone else.
If you understand history and I think Trump does to some extent, but not perhaps to the extent that is needed in this day and age when you understand the evil that happened in the 30s and 40s in Germany, in Europe and even in Japan, really, truly understand it, you cant make comments about it in any other context other than, this is pure evil, he said.
OReilly said that if Trump wanted to make a point the next day that the antifa movement is destructive, referring to anti-fascists, he should have waited. You can do that, but it has to be the next day, he said. You see what I mean?
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dalton99a
(81,516 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)underpants
(182,830 posts)thucythucy
(8,069 posts)when it was actually about American POWs being mowed down by the Nazi SS?
Autumn
(45,107 posts)If only there were a way of finding out the history of Nazis.
underpants
(182,830 posts)I dont see a difference between (Arianna) Huffington and the Nazis.
Whats the difference between the Ku Klux Klan and Arianna Huffington?
Theres no difference between what Huffington and Nazis do.
The whole (Huffington Post) is a sewer.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/88828
underpants
(182,830 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)History was still in the news and definitely in the classrooms of the day. Trump purportedly attended a military school, and the results of battles, warfare and the political decisions involved. And Trump is a fucking genius, so he tell us, and he knew more than anyone.
OReilly is just throwing Trump a life ring, but his true self will just keep popping up.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That's real sweet of Billo in his bid to return to relevancy to excuse a 71-year-old man for not knowing anything about Nazis. I guess if it was important to know something about Nazis, Trump's really smart brain would know it, and make money off it, right Billo?