Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly told Newsmax TV on Thursday that if President Donald Trump loses the upcoming election, ''it’ll be because of COVID[-19],'' which ''threw the country into chaos.''
O’Reilly told ''John Bachman Now'' that if Trump ''loses the election on November third, it’ll be because of COVID, because President Trump had a robust economy going on, and then COVID just derailed the whole thing, it threw the country into chaos, and we’re still there. A lot of people are afraid, a lot of people don’t know what to do and they’re tired of being told to wear a mask, to do this and not do that. So, it’s tough for an incumbent in this kind of situation to continue.''
He added, ''what President Trump has to do no, and I think he’s trying to do it, is say, ‘OK, now I got this disease. It’s a lot more personal than it used to be, and here’s my vision for you.'''
But O’Reilly said, ''I don’t know if it’s gonna work or not.''
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Theodore Bunker ✉
Theodore Bunker, a Newsmax writer, has more than a decade covering news, media, and politics.
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