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‘NO WAY’: Rosie O’Donnell MELTS DOWN During Spat With Bill O’Reilly On ‘Cuomo’

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8 months ago

April 18, 2024

Comedian and former actress Rosie O’Donnell lit into Bill O’Reilly this week, telling the NewsNation host and former Fox News anchor that she is not guilty of “demonizing” former President Donald Trump.

Both commentators appeared on Chris Cuomo’s show to discuss O’Donnell’s ongoing feud with the Republican as well as her recent comments calling for “unity” following November’s election. The notoriously liberal actress has been a vocal critic of Trump going back to his 2016 campaign.

“I agree with you [Bill] and I think that no matter who wins in November, this country has a lot of healing to do. We have to forgive each other for our trespasses and our misconceptions. And then try to reunite as one country, united, and that’s the dangerous thing that’s happening when I say, Chris, Democracy is on trial. It’s because without this, we’re nothing as a nation. We have to get everyone back together again in some way,” O’Donnell told Cuomo and O’Reilly according to the Daily Caller.

However, the veiled slight against Trump was picked up by O’Reilly.

“Okay, but Rosie with all due respect, you’re not going to be successful saying ‘democracy is on trial’ and anybody who supports Donald Trump is a fascist. You’re not. I mean those people are going to reject you 100% because there’s a lot more to it than you are presenting,” O’Reilly stated.

“Well, wait -” O’Donnell attempted to interrupt.

“Wait a minute, hear me out. Donald Trump presided over the country for four years and there was no attack on democracy until January 6. And that was a large mistake that he made. I don’t think he was behind it, I think that if that trial ever gets up he’ll be acquitted – it’s too much exculpatory evidence,” O’Reilly stated.

“No way! No way,” O’Donnell jumped in.

“But you’re not going to bring anybody together, demonizing Trump and the 72 million who voted for him. That’s not going to happen,” O’Reilly concluded.

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Pressed further by Cuomo, O’Donnell called Trump a “dictator” and that she forgives his 82 million supporters for believing his perceived lies. She lost it on O’Reilly after he stated that Americans were “better off” during the Trump years, a sentiment reflected in recent polls.

“I’m not really fearful of our Democracy because there isn’t anybody more outspoken in this country than I am about politics and other things, and my freedom was not impeded one iota during the Trump Administration. And I don’t know any broadcaster’s freedom who was. You still had ‘The View’ on every day pounding Trump into pudding, nothing happens. All the working people I know were better off under Donald Trump, so there wasn’t any economic consequence. So I really don’t know what the hyperbole is, and I reject it,” O’Reilly stated.

“That’s bull! That’s bull. That’s bull! Bill, how many Americans did he kill by his COVID inaction? Let’s start right there. Are you kidding me? People were better with him? You’re out of your mind! Out of your mind,” O’Donnell shouted.

“COVID inaction? He, Trump, brought through a deal with the Pharma companies. Brought a vaccine to the nation in less than a year. Okay?” O’Reilly pushed back.

“Operation Warp Speed, he definitely brought the vaccine. He was slow at the beginning, and then he got cold feet about the vaccine when people went anti-vax on him. That’s the story that the American people have to reconcile with their vote in November,” Cuomo jumped in.

A timeline of the Trump-O’Donnell feud compiled by CNN dates back to 2006 when the then-“View” host criticized the billionaire for refusing to dismiss a Miss America contestant over drug use. He is “not a self-made man,” O’Donnell claimed at the time, but a “snake-oil salesman on Little House On The Prairie.”

Trump quickly responded, calling O’Donnell a “loser” and “a woman out of control.”