Conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly has had a long history of controversial takes, from threatening that President Donald Trump could “destroy” people who accused him of links to the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to urging the president to take a vacation and saying he should exact vengeance against actor Robert De Niro. Now O’Reilly is warning Trump that if Democrats retake Congress, his “legacy” could be at stake.
“The conservative pundit named two issues that could determine the president’s fate,” reported The Daily Beast's Julia Ornedo on Thursday. “A prominent conservative commentator predicted a bleak future for President Donald Trump if Democrats take control of Congress after the midterms.”
The pundit warned that, if Democrats retake Congress, they will block his legislation and possibly even impeach him.
“I can’t tell you who’s going to win, because things are gonna change,” O’Reilly said. “But If the Democrats win the Senate and the House, it’s over for President Trump. It’s over.”
He continued, “Because they’ll impeach him, they’ll sue him, every two minutes there’ll be something else and nothing will ever get passed. Nothing. So there’ll be two years of, ‘Let’s get Trump.’ That’s what’ll happen.”
O’Reilly concluded that “if there’s a split and the Senate goes for the Republicans, that’ll blunt impeachment because you need two-thirds of the Senate. He’s not gonna get impeached and convicted anyway. There’s not the votes there. So this thing is very personal for Donald Trump because he’s gotta know that the Republicans have got to take at least one house. He has to. Or his whole legacy blows up.”
O’Reilly compared Trump’s situation to that of President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat who passed a lot of social legislation before being sent off his tracks by the Vietnam War. He is not alone to contrast Trump with controversial Democratic presidents.
“[If] you understand how inflation impacts presidencies, you do not want to be, if you’re Donald John Trump, in the brotherhood with Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter on inflation, because inflation ruined their presidencies,” CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten said in July.