Twitter Explodes as Trump Says Susan Rice May Have Committed a Crime (She Didn’t) but Bill O’Reilly Didn’t

‘Right-Wing Sexual Predators Stick Together’

President Donald Trump one month and one day ago accused former President Barack Obama of committing a felony, wiretapping him in Trump Tower. That was a baseless allegation that was then and to this has has been supported by zero evidence. It has led to an international incident with America’s top ally, Britain, and cost a tremendous amount of time and money on all sides attempting to prove or disprove the false claim. 

In a New York Times interview published Wednesday afternoon, Trump again accused someone of a crime, citing zero evidence.

“President Trump said on Wednesday that he thought that the former national security adviser Susan E. Rice may have committed a crime by seeking the identities of Trump associates who were swept up in the surveillance of foreign officials by American spy agencies and that other Obama administration officials may also have been involved,” The New York Times reports. “The president provided no evidence to back his claim.”

Trump says in the interview he thinks the Susan Rice allegations will be “one of the big stories of our time.”

For the record, there are no credible accusations against Rice, any unmasking she did, she insists, was done as part of her job as President Obama’s National Security Advisor, as experts have agreed.

When asked if Ms. Rice, who has denied leaking the names of Trump associates under surveillance by United States intelligence agencies, had committed a crime, the president said, “Do I think? Yes, I think.”

Later in the interview, Trump ran to Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s defense. 

O’Reilly has been accused of sexual harassment by at least five women, and according to reports he and Fox News have paid his accusers a total of about $13 million.

Despite less than one week ago designating April as National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, the President decided to ignore that proclamation and the accusations against the veteran pundit.

“I think he’s a person I know well — he is a good person,” Trump told The Times. 

“I think he shouldn’t have settled; personally I think he shouldn’t have settled,” said Mr. Trump. “Because you should have taken it all the way. I don’t think Bill did anything wrong.”

 

Many on Twitter were outraged:

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