Bill O'Reilly told Newsmax TV on Wednesday that President Donald Trump should had determined "in three hours" the border separation crisis would harm his administration.
"It took the Trump administration three days to figure that out," O'Reilly told "The Joe Walsh Show" in an interview. "It should've taken them three hours."
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He characterized Trump's executive order as "a battle for the hearts and minds of the American people, just like the Vietnam War was.
"You have two sides: You have the people in America who are disenchanted with the direction of the country who generally support Donald Trump because he wants to get back to unfettered capitalism, he wants to have secured borders, and a tough foreign policy.
"Then, you have the 'hate-Trumpers,'" O'Reilly continued. "That includes a segment of the Republicans — about 10 percent — that despise the man for varying reasons.
"You have this battle, this struggle — and, of course, the media is 90 percent on the side of the hate-Trump people."
O'Reilly noted President Trump was helped by the North Korean summit in Singapore last week with dictator Kim Jong Un and the release of the Justice Department inspector general's report attacking the FBI for its work on the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
"Both of those things helped Donald Trump," O'Reilly told Walsh.
But, then, "the press got wind that — legally — U.S. Border Patrol authorities were separating adults who cross illegally into the USA and their children so the adults can be adjudicated," he said.
"The press blew it up into 'the Trump administration, and President Trump himself, are abusing children. Hurting children.'
"Americans of all ideologies are not going to sit by and watch children get hurt, no matter who they are," O'Reilly explained. "The left seized upon an issue they knew was really going to hurt Donald Trump.
"The things that helped you last week were obliterated from the public's consciousness by this controversy," he said.
"With the order, Trump is mitigating the situation the best he can," O'Reilly told Walsh.
"Don't expect to have any kind of applause on the hate-Trump Left, because they'll find another reason to put a stake in his heart.
"That's what they do — and they're not going to stop, no matter what the president does.
"No matter how successful the economy is," O'Reilly said, "they're not going to stop."
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