The storming of the Capitol Building has "destroyed" President Donald Trump's legacy, according to political pundit Bill O'Reilly.
"Mr. Trump's failure to tamp down the angry protesters supporting him in Washington has destroyed his legacy," O'Reilly wrote on his website. "The Trump-haters are screaming that he 'encouraged' the violence, but I believe that's false.
"The president is an opportunist and smart enough to understand that a calculated violent attack on Congress in his name would destroy him. Because of his bitterness over the election and the unprecedented press mistreatment he's received, the president has lost all perspective and personal discipline."
O'Reilly has been a person friend of the president, writing the book "The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America."
The "anti-Trump zealots" coming for the president have effectively "stripped" him of any defenders, leaving the president alone in his final days in office.
"The horrendous display of sedition and treachery at the nation’s Capitol has provided some leftists with a license to figuratively kill and they are locked and loaded," O'Reilly wrote. "President Trump is the primary target and he is badly wounded with more pain to come.
"Mr. Trump is obviously loathed by many powerful people and is now stripped of defenders."
Now, Trump has handed Joe Biden the mantle as the nation's healer, O'Reilly concluded.
"It is beyond any doubt that the assault on Congress by Trump supporters has created a national emergency," he wrote. "We are descending into the madness of irrationality. In addition, the anti-Trumpers are now exacting vivid revenge and there doesn't seem to be any cease fire in sight.
"And so our divided nation turns to you, Joe Biden. Defuse it. As best you can."
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