Thousands and thousands! Being Trump, he doubled down on his crazy.
But let’s go back to that Trump quote above, particularly this part:
Hey look, if I'm wrong about something, I want to apologize.
Trump has never apologized for anything, but let’s look at one very specific mistake, his tweeting of this racist and erroneous garbage:
You know you’re particularly full of shit when Bill Fucking O’Reilly calls you out on this.
O'REILLY (HOST): Are you aware that the liberal media and the Democratic Party in general are trying to paint you as a racist? Are you aware of that?
TRUMP: I think so. But I think people know better than that. I'm probably the least racist person on Earth.
O'REILLY: Well I have known you a long time --
TRUMP: I think people know better than that.
O'REILLY: -- I never saw any racism from you. However, when you tweet out a thing, and this bothered me, I got to tell you. You tweeted out that whites killed by blacks -- these are statistics you picked up from somewhere -- at a rate of 81 percent. And that's totally wrong. Whites killed by blacks is 15 percent, yet you tweeted it was 81 percent.
TRUMP: Bill, I didn't tweet. I retweeted somebody that was supposedly an expert and also a radio show.
O'REILLY: Yeah, but you don't want to be -- why do you want to be in that zone?
TRUMP: Bill. Bill. Am I going to check every statistic? I get millions and millions of people @realdonaldtrump by the way.
O'REILLY: You got to. You are a presidential contender you got to check it.
TRUMP: I have millions of people. You know what, fine, but this came out of radio shows and everything else.
O'REILLY: Oh come on, radio shows?
TRUMP: Excuse me. All it was is a retweet. It wasn't from me. And it did. It came out of radio show and other places, because you see all the names --
O'REILLY: Look, you know I'm looking out for you, right? You know that? That I'm looking out for you? I look out for every honest politician, I don't care what party they are in. Don't do this. Don't put your name on stuff like this. Because it makes the other side, it gives them stuff to tell the ill-informed voter that you are a racist. I mean, you just handed them a platter.
So confronted by the fact that he had retweeted something wrong, Trump didn’t apologize as he claimed he would when wrong. Nope. Instead he responded with, essentially, “I can’t vet everything I say!” Why, there are MILLIONS and MILLIONS of people following him, how could he possibly ever decide what was right and wrong! Why, he can only retweet the stuff that confirms his biases, particularly the racist ones made by Nazis with thuggish black guy imagery, even though he’s the least racist person he knows, well, as long as you’re talking about racism against white people. Brown and black people are all murdering and raping white people, so apparently they don’t count. Hurry up and tweet that at him so he can retweet it back!
But let’s not give O’Reilly a pass. His problem wasn’t with Trump being a racist. Rather, his problem was that doing racists things allowed Democrats to tell voters Trump was racist, supposedly ill-informing them! That’s conservative logic for you … As for this:
O'REILLY: -- I never saw any racism from you.
Perhaps he’s been on an extended vacation from presidential coverage? That would be the only possible explanation …
- "Jeb Bush likes illegals because of his wife."
- “Jeb Bush is crazy, who cares that he speaks Mexican, this is America, English !!"
- "I have a great relationship with the blacks."
- “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best … they’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”
- “But you have people coming in and I’m not just saying Mexicans, I’m talking about people that are from all over that are killers and rapists and they’re coming into this country.”
- “Well, somebody’s doing the raping, Don! I mean somebody’s doing it! Who’s doing the raping? Who’s doing the raping?”
- Donald Trump to Univision super-anchor Jorge Ramos: “It's not about you. Get out of my country.”
- “Sadly, the overwhelming amount of violent crime in our major cities is committed by blacks and hispanics-a tough subject-must be discussed.”
- “Our great African American President hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore.”
- “A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. I think sometimes a black may think they don’t have an advantage or this and that … I’ve said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.”
- ”Sadly, because president Obama has done such a poor job as president, you won’t see another black president for generations.”
- “I have black guys counting my money. … I hate it. The only guys I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes all day.”
- “Trump took out ads in New York newspapers calling for the death penalty for ‘criminals of every age’ after five black and Latino teens were implicated in the Central Park jogger case. The young men, convicted and imprisoned, were later cleared by DNA evidence and the confession of a serial rapist – and Trump called their wrongful-conviction settlement a ‘disgrace.’”
- ”Donald Trump ‘would certainly implement’ a database system tracking Muslims in the United States, the Republican front-runner told NBC News on Thursday night.”
I could keep on going, but I think we can convincingly conclude that 1) Donald Trump is definitively NOT the least racist person in the world, and 2) Bill O’Reilly isn’t paying attention to shit.