Hi BillOReilly.com Premium Members welcome to the No Spin News July 18th, 2018. Take your country back. I am on audio, obviously and I'm in Ireland in Sligo, is a town in the north-west part of the country, it's famous for Lord Mountbatten being assassinated by the IRA in 1973. We went out to his estate today; his family apparently still owns it. An amazing place. I posted some pictures so I'll tell you a little bit about the trip at the end of this broadcast, it will be a little bit shorter than usual because it's just audio only. And tomorrow we'll be doing the same thing I'm going to my ancestral home grounds where I have an amazing story to tell you, and I will do that tomorrow.
But of course, the big story in America is Donald Trump and the fallout from his Russia situation. Now, you should know that here in Ireland nobody cares. It does make the papers but the reporting is shallow and doesn't really advance the story. People don't talk about it very much. There is an overall arc of liberal media here in Ireland. People feel that Trump is not looking out for them because the Irish Republic has gone sharply left and I'll talk a little bit about that tomorrow, much Higher taxes, more of a socialistic profile. But as far as Donald Trump is concerned there's no doubt he's taken a huge hit by the Putin meeting and as we reported last night with Monica Crowley. The reason is that the president did not stay in the fax zone. So what he has to do and I don't know whether Donald Trump is capable of doing it but he certainly should understand that every time he goes outside the facts he gets hammered. And the facts are that Vladimir Putin knew about the Russian intrusion into our 2016 election and members of his intelligence agency hacked into the democratic structure to try to get dirt on Hillary Clinton and whatever.
Now, I assume that the Russians tried to get dirt on Trump as well but we don't know that at this point. So why is Donald Trump so hesitant to say that? The reason is that he is so angry about the Russian collusion investigation and so emotionally distraught about the left saying that the election was illegitimate, that the Russian intrusion has not really registered with him on an emotional level. What makes him furious is people saying he was not elected legitimately, he claims and I believe this is true myself, that even though the Russians might have done hacking it really didn't affect the outcome of the vote. Now that's 100 percent where Donald Trump is, the outcome of the vote was not affected by anything Russia did. And that his primary emotional state. So when you say to him, well what about Putin and what about the intrusion, it doesn't really, it doesn't really rise in his mind and that's why he's getting himself in all kinds of trouble.
Now, the criticism of course was hysterical some of it was legitimate and some of it was not, I mean there are people who are so angry that Russia is getting away with intruding on our election that they're just crazed. Am I one of those people? I'm on, I'm, I've always said that Putin is a killer. You know the biggest Putin thing in the last five years is my interview with Donald Trump on Super Bowl Sunday 2017, when I said to him, why are you soft on this guy? He's a killer. You remember that. If you didn't see it Google it. And I've always said that Putin is a bad, bad guy and I had no doubt that he intruded in the election and no doubt that he lied in Helsinki and no doubt that he won the whole thing. And I wrote a column on it this week, I hope you read it, Putin won. And that's it, he is dancing in the streets in Moscow because he disrupted the whole American system.
Now, Donald Trump is not going to do anything directly to Vladimir Putin at this point because he wants Putin to cooperate with America on a variety of different things. North Korea nukes, Syria, Middle East so he's not going to throw Putin under the bus. If Putin does anything else he'll have to but in the meantime, he's taken enormous heat. But as always, the media goes overboard, the media distorts and lies and Trump supporters go you know what is, maybe he didn't handle Putin well in Helsinki but he's not as bad as the media. So I'm going to still support him. I don't think Donald Trump lost one vote in Helsinki, not one. I think that Trump supporters despise the media so much that unless it's really, really an atrocity or you know some scandal Mueller comes out with something directly tying Trump in, which everybody doubts including me, that the Trump voters are just going to say OK we didn't like it, he should have been tougher with Putin but are we going to, are we going to walk away from President Trump? No. Because that gives the media a victory. It's really the media versus Trump in 2020, that's what it is. Doesn't matter who the Democrats nominate, it is the media versus Trump.
All right so going forward this story has a little bit of legs this week and then next week when I get back on Monday, it will subside. Couple of things that happened today that are interesting, the border wall the Congress the Republicans in the House, have put forward five billion dollars to build 200 miles of wall, of wall. That's much more than President Trump asked for in this budget. So why did the Republicans do it? Because the wall is controversial. They did it to embarrass the Democrats. So they know the Democrats will vote against the five billion and they want that in the November election. They want the Democrats on record as voting against the five billion for the wall. So that's in the budget, five billion dollars for 200 miles of wall and it's a political play.
Gallup poll on Brett Kavanaugh who got a break this week with the Putin stuff. So the new Supreme Court nominee is favored by 41 percent of Americans, 37 percent don't like him, 22 percent have no idea who the Supreme Court nominee is or what the Supreme Court is and that's just the way it is. OK so Kavanagh nobody knows him, a conservative guy as we analyzed, will get confirmed in September unless he boot's it in the Senate confirmation hearings and that story will come back in a fairly big way in the next few weeks. So that's pretty much what's going on.
My Irish trip has really been great, got great weather today in Sligo. We've posted some pictures on the Website and Instagram and all whatever, they do, we posted them. And tomorrow we go to County Cavan where my ancestors were evicted from their land and I will tell you that story and how it all went down, very compelling, tomorrow and then we go to Dublin on Friday and Saturday and I'll be back on Sunday. So the Irish ship is going well, if you haven't visited Ireland that's a bucket list play, you want to put that on your list. And people over here again they're not involved with American politics. I was here two years ago and just two years’ time the government has imposed unbelievable taxes on the people on the citizens of Ireland and I'll tell you about that a little bit tomorrow as well and it is very, very hard to amass any kind of affluence in the Irish republic right now.
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