During the first night of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, presumptive nominee Donald Trump snuck a few moments in with Fox’s Bill O’Reilly via telephone. Right after asking if the Republican Party would make the killings of police officers a “campaign issue,” O’Reilly asked “What about the Black Lives Matter movement, are they going to be singled out as a provocateur in this terrible situation?” After saying that he has seen the group calling for deaths of police—as the camera shows BLM demonstrators holding a banner of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by the way—would-be President Trump eventually said:
“When you see something like that taking place, that’s really a threat, if you think about it and when you see something like that taking place, we are going to have to, perhaps, talk with the Attorney General about it or do something, but, at a minimum, we’re going to have to be watching because that’s really bad stuff and it’s happened more than once”
Yep. He’d put the attorney general of the United States on ‘em. Asked by O’Reilly if BLM is a fuse lighter in the assassinations of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Trump agrees “certainly in certain instances they are.”
Never mind that BLM had nothing to do with the attacks in Dallas and Baton Rouge and publicly stated that the movement is against violence.
Never mind that they did the same thing in December 2014 when NYPD officers Wenjin Liu and Rafael Ramos were killed by a lone gunman.
And never mind that the Republican National Convention is looking like a combination of horror, comedy, and reality TV injected with steroids for the world to see, especially for including this dude—just never mind all that.
It’s Fox News and Donald Trump. A federal search and rescue expedition wouldn’t be able to find any facts or truth, no matter how long they looked. You can watch this sickening exchange below.