O’Reilly: Biden was a ‘zombie’

Andrew Harnik and Susan Walsh, Associated Press/Bill O’Reilly, left, and former President Biden

Pundit Bill O’Reilly blasted former President Biden, calling him a “zombie” while in office in the wake of revelations about his mental decline during the final few months of his presidency.

“He didn’t make the policies,” O’Reilly said Tuesday evening on NewsNation‘s “Cuomo”. “He didn’t make them. That’s where you’re making your mistake. He was a zombie.”

Host Chris Cuomo said he disagreed with the pundit, adding that Biden had “good days, and a lot of bad days.”

“But Biden was not running the government,” O’Reilly contended, later noting the former president “couldn’t do the job.”

A number of books have been published in recent weeks detailing the extent to which top aides to Biden were kept in the dark about his mental condition and feared for his health in a potential second term.

O’Reilly’s comments come just days after the Department of Justice released the tapes from Biden’s 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur, which he appeared to struggle through. They also follow the former president’s recent prostate cancer diagnosis.

Trump — who in recent weeks has doubled down on criticism of his predecessor’s use of an autopen — and his allies have argued the revelations about Biden are evidence of a cover-up by the media and Democrats about the former president’s fitness for the job.

Bill O’Reilly Turns on Trump and Reveals the Huge ‘Mistake’ He Is Making

Bill O’Reilly has split with President Donald Trump on one issue in particular: the case of a wrongfully deported Maryland dad whose return the Supreme Court has ordered the administration to “facilitate.”

The legendary conservative pundit said the president, whom O’Reilly has steadfastly supported over the years, is making a “mistake” in defying the judiciary.

The former Fox News host said Saturday that the Trump administration should bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador due to an “administrative error.”

“I’ve said that quite clearly: Trump administration’s making a mistake not bringing a man back because the Supreme Court wants the man back,” O’Reilly said on his newscast No Spin News. “If I’m President Trump, I don’t want to alienate the Supreme Court, period.”

Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains in El Salvador despite a Supreme Court order directing the Trump administration to “facilitate” his return to the U.S.Abrego Garcia Family/Handout via Reuters

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the government must “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S.

Despite that order, the Trump administration has maintained that it has no interest in bringing back a man it accuses of links to the international criminal gang MS-13.

But O’Reilly argued that the way to resolve concerns about Abrego Garcia’s criminal history was to bring him back.

“If the man is MS-13, that will be proven by the Justice Department,” O’Reilly said, even as he speculated that Abrego Garcia “probably is affiliated” with the notorious gang.

“He’s not some guy cutting the lawn on Saturday in Maryland, but let the Justice Department prove it, and then you boot him,” he went on.

The White House has repeatedly decried “communist left-wing judges” for defying Trump’s sweeping deportation blitz and other efforts to upend the federal government.

In a fresh rebuke of the judiciary on Saturday, Trump claimed in a Truth Social post that “it is not possible to have trials for millions and millions of people.”

“We know who the Criminals are, and we must get them out of the U.S.A. — and FAST!” he wrote.