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Falsifying Joe Biden's Condition, Clayton Weimers on America's Press Decline & Escalating Violence in Mexico
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No Spin News - May 14, 2025
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Clayton Weimers
Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the no Spin News. Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Stand up for your country. A robust two party system is really vital for America and a lot of people don't believe that. They want their party or their ideology to dominate and the others are devils and should be shunted aside or whatever. That's not a good thing, all right, because if you have a blend of beliefs, you can then, out of different points of view, maybe come up with a new and improved point of view by listening to the other side and incorporating good ideas that both sides may have. Too many Americans are what I call exclusionary. They do not respect dissenting points of view from their own. And we see that as now an industry on television news that these agencies, as I've said over and over and I'm sorry to be repetitive, are now targeting people's belief systems, not reporting the truth. It's easy to make money that way. That's what they are doing now. One political party in this country, there are only two, Republican and Democrat. There are minor ones, but it would take billions of dollars, and I mean maybe 10 billion to really get a third party up and running. So the one political party that's established is falling apart and that would be the Democratic Party absolutely evaporating before our eyes. What an interesting historical time. That is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. Let me back it up not since the presidency of Jimmy Carter has the Democratic Party been so weak. A controversial man like Donald Trump sweeps into office. Not because so many Americans love Donald Trump, the MAGA people do, but because Joe Biden and the Democratic Party were a disaster. Biden, the second worst president in our history. I document that in confronting the presidents. So a new poll by the Associated Press. 1,175 adults. The sample is fair. Question. Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party? Favorable. 36%. Unfavorable. 55. Are you kidding me? That is a disaster. Now this week, with Donald Trump having some success economically in the Gulf and the stock market coming back to where it was before Liberation Day, the Republicans have regained some momentum, and the Democrats don't know how to counter that. I think that's an accurate statement, but even worse than is, now that the administration of President Biden is beginning to be exposed and all of these books are coming out saying that the Democratic Party knew Biden was challenged mentally. His acuity was declining. They lied about it. So did the media. That props them up. Everyone was lying. Now, the most powerful Democrat in the country right now is Senator Charles Schumer. Roll the tape. I'm interested to know whether the man that you saw sitting there on that couch on that day, you were in there. You saw him up close and personal. Did you really not have any idea that he was not fit to serve a second term? Casey, we're looking forward. We have the largest Medicaid cut in front of us. We have the whole federal government. You're seeing all of this because you lost a presidential election. And is that not Joe Biden's responsibility for deciding to run again? We're looking forward. That's it. That's it. All right. That's embarrassing, right? That's embarrassing. We lied about it. Our entire party did. But now we're not going to talk about it. Why we lied to the American people. I mean, that's really. That's one of the worst sound bites I've ever seen. Okay, so enter the media, which propped up Joe Biden as a question. They did because they hated Donald Trump. Now there's a book coming out by CNN's Jake Tapper, who was one of the proper uppers, hates Trump, Okay. And used his position at CNN to put Biden in a favorable light. Now he's got a book say, oh, no. Oh, no, no. Biden was compromised. Okay, Jake? I mean, who would buy this book? So let me give you two examples of what Tapper did in the past. First one is September 8th, 2023. Go. Right. He's sharp physically, I mean, mentally. Yeah, I think the question is physically. Right, Right. Or so. Right. Well, and so. And then how do we ask that question? So everybody slows down as they age and he maybe doesn't have the stamina to do the type of public appearances he would have done when he was 70 or 60. But does that mean that he doesn't have the stamina to do the job? I mean, I don't think there's like a simple answer to these questions. I assume you think he's sympathetic and well meaning. He's 81, and his memory, you know, it doesn't seem great. It's not horrible. But I don't understand the outrage. He doesn't understand the outrage. Okay. And so then Biden gets exposed and the Democrats lose. And then Tapper writes a book saying, yeah, it was a cover up, but not Tapper. Although he did, to be fair, say something today about, well, maybe I could have done a better job. Yeah, maybe. Boy, oh, boy. All right. Finally, the Democratic Party continues to do what? Got it in trouble. Push propaganda. Now, I'll give you two. Okay, so this gutter playing controversy is the media is pushing this and the Democrats are on board. This is terrible. Trump shouldn't take the plane. And one of the reasons that the Democrats say Trump should not take the plane is because Qatar supports terrorists, Hamas in particular. Well, that's not true at this point in history. Roll the tape if you, if you know what's happening over there, and I do, all of those Gulf states are pumping in billions of dollars to the quote, unquote, anti terrorism programs, all of them. Now, last night on News Nation, I had to chastise our pal Leland Vitter, who told me that Hamas is still living in gutter. That's not true. Okay? There's not one big Hamas guy in Qatar. Not one. Okay? So all of this media stuff that comes out and people believe, it's just not true. Now, how did the Democratic Party and the media, some of they get a hold of Hamas's living and being harbored in gutter? They did that because gutter allowed Hamas big shots to negotiate the hostage release with American and Israeli diplomats in Qatar. That's how Hamas got there. Here's the foreign minister. Go. But what I can tell you very clearly is that the office of Hamas in Doha was created for the sake of the mediation process. Obviously, when there is no mediation process, the office itself doesn't have Any function. All right, so because gutter allowed the negotiation to take place, Hamas representatives came and that's how the media and the Democratic Party threw that in Trump's face. Oh, no. They're fostering terrorists over in Qatar. Now, I don't trust any of those Gulf states, none of them. I don't trust Saudi Arabia, I don't trust Emirates, I don't trust Ghatar. 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You would never know that listening and reading to the US Media. Second example, and this is even worse. Okay, the big Medicaid cuts. You're going to hear this 10,000 times. Oh, Trump couldn't Medicaid. Oh, ladies are going to be thrown out on the street babies aren't going to get Medicaid. Okay, here are the facts. You want to be ready for the facts. In the past 10 years, Medicaid, which is money provided by the states for poor people to have health problems confronted, and children's health insurance, the past 10 years, it has increased 13%. In the last 10 years, federal spending on Medicaid has increased 117 billion. That's a lot of money. The Republicans in their budget bill want to cut, okay, 880 billion over a 10 year period. 10 years, that's 88 billion a year, okay? Out of the existing system by inserting a responsibility clause called community engagement. They're not cutting the program so that old ladies and unwed mothers get thrown off. They're saying that if you are going to get free health care that includes some portions of Obamacare, that you have to work if you can find a job, and if you can't, you have to look for a job. And if you can't get a job, you have to do community service. Now, who opposes that? Not for women with young babies. They can't do that. Okay, but it's for primarily young men who can work and some women, single women who can work. Do you oppose that? Who American would oppose that? So the layabouts and the drug addicts are supposed to get free medical care and they don't even care about getting a job. That's what this is all about. But you'd never know it by listening to the Democratic Party roll it. Let's be clear. This is not a health care reform plan to improve our health care system or lower cost for families and patients. Nope. Republicans are looking to dismantle the basic Medicaid program to help tax cuts for billionaires. And this is all being done in service of trying to provide a massive tax break to MAGA billionaire donors like Elon Musk. Okay? So if you want to believe the Republican Party wants to reform Medicare in the sense of asking for people to look for work and do community incursions because they want to help Elon Musk make more money, then you're a nitwit. Beyond a nitwit. You're a moron if you believe that. But that's what the Democratic Party is peddling. Okay? So when you add it all up, when you see the massive distortions and what they have and what they're grabbing onto, instead of saying, yeah, I'd like to reform Medicaid too, we should have a community engagement there so that the taxpayers aren't ripped off. We're for that. They're not for it. They're not for it at all. They want a massive thing. Now let's get to the tax cuts for the rich. So you just heard Congressman Jeffries, the Speaker of the House, say, all right, there are no new personal income tax cuts in the proposed bill. It's simply an extension on the personal front of what Trump passed in 2017, because the. His 2017 tax bill runs out this year. That's all. It's not slashing my income tax rate. I stay the same and I'm paying a lot of money to federal, state, lot big. Okay. Now, there are some provisions in the bill that raise deductions for estate taxes because so many farmers are losing their land because they can't pay the estate taxes. They're too high. So the Republicans are raising now and a raise that estate tax. That's true. Do you oppose that? Remember, estate, you already pay tax on that money and there is some help for business and it's complicated, but there's no personal tax cuts for the rich. But that's all you hear. Go. You're going to throw over 13 million people off of Medicaid in order to pay for tax cuts for the rich. They're doing this for tax cuts for the rich. They're doing that for tax cuts for the rich. If you actually take away tax cuts for the rich, what is a punchline for the Democratic argument? They want people focused on their economic needs. They're not interested in tax cuts for the rich. I think that if the Democrats are going to be aligned on one thing, it is not extending Trump's tax cuts for the rich. We got beat up for, I think, unfairly calling the tax law the tax cuts for the rich. All right, so the Democratic Party, to sum this talking points memo up, and I'm sorry it was so long, is they don't want any reform for Medicaid. They want anybody to get it. And you don't have to look for a job. You don't do community and service. There's no personal income tax cut yet. They say there is, over and over and over and over. Because the Republicans want to give more money to Elon Musk. Okay? There's no Hamas presence in Qatar to speak of. Okay? But they say there is, and that's why Trump is betraying the nation by considering taking the plane. How much more of this can we, can we absorb? And that's the memoir. All right, now on Air Force One, they're whipping around the Gulf making deals, but not Reuters, the Associated Press in Bloomberg. Trump wouldn't let them on the press plane. Why? Because they're hostile to Trump and Trump takes that personally. And if you're hostile to him, you get booted off Air Force One. That's it. Now, I know some of you will write me and say, well, he gives interviews to ABC and some he, he does that for a reason. He wants the confrontation. But believe me, if you criticize Trump, and I do, every time I do, he's on me, okay? Hey, you know, he takes it all personally. There is a crew that monitors all this. It is called Reporters Without Borders, based in Paris, France. And it is issued, it's World Press Freedom Index. The United States are 180 countries that the Reporters Without Borders evaluate. We are 57. Romania and Sierra Leone, Africa are ahead of us. Okay, according to this organization, here are the worst countries for press freedom. Eritrea, that's in Africa. North Korea, communists. China, communists. Syria, chaos. Iran, theocracy. Afghanistan, theocracy, Turkmenistan, theocracy. Vietnam, communist. Nicaragua, communist. Russia, you know, pretty much communist, totalitarian. So those are the worst. All right, so if you're a journalist there and you don't want to be a journalist in Mexico either, you get a bullet right between the eyes. But United States is, according to this report by Reporters Without Borders, problematic. All right, let's get into that Problematic. Joining us from Washington, Clayton Weimers, the executive director of Reporters Without Borders USA. So what's the biggest problem we have here, Mr. Weimers, with the press?
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Bill O'Reilly
Well, thanks for having me, Bill. Really a pleasure to be on, but not a pleasure to be talking about how badly the United States has fallen on the index. RSF started doing this in 2002, at which point the United States was 17th in the world. Not bad. I think as Americans, we would all like that to be higher because we're so proud of our First Amendment. But we've gone in the other direction in recent years and it's really been the past decade. We've seen a consistent backslide on press freedom in this country across administrations from both parties. Congress changing hands between both parties. So this really isn't tied to one particular political movement. It's really endemic of, I think, Americans starting to take press freedom for granted. I do want to take a step back and talk about how we put together the index. We measure on five categories of indicators, and we've seen a decline on all five of those categories in the United States. And those are economic, political, legislative, security and social. And across all Five of those we've seen declines in the past decade.
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Clayton Weimers
All right, give me a specific example of something that's horrendous in the United States vis a vis the free press.
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Clayton Weimers
Sure.
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Bill O'Reilly
Well, the biggest indicator that's taken a hit in the United States and from frankly this is true around the world, is the economic indicator. And I think anyone who's been paying attention in recent years, this shouldn't be too surprising because we've seen massive job losses across the news media. We've seen the consolidation of media companies leading to fewer voices in the media landscape. And we're seeing the disappearance of small independent local news outlets. There's an estimate that on average, two local newspapers shut down in the United States. And that's leading to a situation where more and more Americans simply don't have access to an independent local news outlet that is based in their community.
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Clayton Weimers
Yeah, but you use the word independent. Very few of these are. Now, I have the most successful independent news agency in the world by revenue. I mean, nobody comes close to us. And the reason we are successful is because, I mean, you can say that I lean traditional, and that's true. But we're not in business to prop up a party or an ideology. Most of the media in America is they take sides. And once that began in earnest and it happened, the Iraq War, Bush the Younger, that's when it really fractured when I was doing the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News. Okay. Once that happened, Americans lost faith in the media. And then you combine that with the technology where you can go and watch me anytime you want round the clock, anywhere in the world on YouTube. So I think that's absolutely one more time the stayed traditional media that was in the tank for one party or the other. They lost a lot of credibility and a lot of attractiveness.
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Bill O'Reilly
I think that's largely correct analysis.
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Clayton Weimers
The.
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Bill O'Reilly
The spread of partisan media, the kind of media that just tells you what you want to hear, has been a net negative for press freedom. And by the way, it's a model that the United States has been exporting to other countries, and we've seen that become a big part of the media landscape in a lot of other countries around.
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Clayton Weimers
But it was already there in other countries. Come on. The BBC? Are you kidding me? I mean, I lived in England for a year. I was already there. We didn't have to export anything. We can't force any. Look, when you had the Dominion voting machine scandal, all right, where certain news agencies were basically telling their audience they knew that the stuff wasn't true, what they were saying, and they said it anyway, that was it. That was it. But it didn't have anything to do with the Constitution. It didn't have anything to do with the folks. It had to do with these big media corporations that are gonna say, we're gonna make money. We don't care how we do it. Am I wrong?
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Bill O'Reilly
I don't think you're wrong. And I think actually there's an additional element here that has exacerbated the problem since what you. During the Iraq war, which is the way people get information largely now is through social media platforms, and it's delivered by algorithm. And these are systems that are set up to incentivize engagement, not education.
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Clayton Weimers
Education and propaganda. Information set up to disseminate propaganda. Right, but that's.
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Bill O'Reilly
The algorithm is to get you to keep clicking.
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Clayton Weimers
That's a fault of the people, though. They don't. They're not seeking the truth. Many Americans don't want to know the truth. They want to believe what they want to believe. Right.
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Bill O'Reilly
Well, I don't know if I would go that far. I have a lot of faith that Americans do indeed want to know what's going on in the world.
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Clayton Weimers
Oh, come on. That's being Clayton. You think people who sit there, watch MSNBC want to know the truth? Or CNN or even Fox? 95% of the people who watch FNC are conservatives. 95%. It was 60 when I was there. Okay. You think they want to know the truth?
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Bill O'Reilly
Come on.
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Clayton Weimers
They want to hear what they. What they believe. Reinforce. You know that. And that is why the whole media thing landscape is collapsing in this country. Last word.
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Bill O'Reilly
I think that's a big part of it, and it's hard to separate those things out from things like safety, which is what we traditionally think of as press freedom. Because when you have this diminished standing of the news media in the public mind, you're really lowering the bar for harassment and attacks. And that's one of the reasons we see attacks against journalists on the rise in this country, which also contributes to the United States falling on the index in terms of the safety score.
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Clayton Weimers
Yeah. I'm going to bring you back. I want you to research the attacks on journalists in this country, if you would do me a favor, because I'm the most controversial journalist in the country, I think. But it's an argument. I'm up there. In the beginning, when I started, I got attacked. I had people on my property. I have to have security. And. And even now, if I go to Madison Square Garden or someplace like that, I got to have a couple of guys with me. So I know what you're talking about. But I want to. I want to get deeper into the physicality and what you see as putting us journalists in danger. That's a fascinating topic, and we appreciate your point of view. Mr. Weimers, thanks for taking the time today.
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Bill O'Reilly
Thank you for having me.
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Clayton Weimers
Okay. All right. Southern border apprehensions. This is another unbelievable story that you're not going to hear on 60 Minutes. They just won't report it. Okay. Dropped 93% from April of this year to April 24th. 93%. It's an amazing average in April this last month. 279 a day. Migrants trying to sneak in. Okay. Average under Biden a year ago, 4,300 a day. And remember, Biden goes, oh, I can't do anything about it. We have to have immigration reform, comprehensive. But drug seizures are up in the usa, means more drugs are here. And that goes on Mexico. And we'll get to that in a moment. So in Wisconsin, Judge Hannah Dugan, indicted by the federal authorities for harboring a kind of dangerous migrant. All right, you remember that she was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on charges she tried to assist an undocumented immigrant. Escape, arrest, and a guy had a battery, a spousal battery, had a whole bunch of beefs, and he was deported and came back and she still allegedly harbored him. So, Hannah, you're in big trouble out there, lady. She's a local Milwaukee judge. Could get six years in prison, $350,000 fine. She won't. She'll plead not guilty and they'll plead down to probation. That's what will happen to her. All right, now, in Mexico, which is. Oh, boy, Talk about dangerous. So Veracruz is on the east coast of Mexico. It's just north of Cancun. And there's a mayoral race, and one of the ladies vying for the office was named Yesenia Lara. She was out campaigning when gunfire broke out. Go. All right, so she was killed. Ms. Laura was killed, and her daughter was killed, and two other people, three others wounded. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. Here's her quote. Ready? A motive remains unclear, but we will help with the investigation. It's not unclear, lady. It's the cartels. Okay? What do you think? Some bank robber showed up and this woman, President Sheinbaum, will not cooperate with the United States in taking on these cartels. And now this poor woman who wanted to be mayor is dead along with her daughter. And that's not unusual. This isn't unusual. Journalists get killed. Politicians, everybody gets killed. Mexico is the most dangerous country in the Western hemisphere. But she won't cooperate. A joint Mexican US Attack on the cartels wipes them out. Claudia won't do it. Muay malo. Smart life. So there is in the big beautiful bill, whatever that is, and I don't know what it is, a provision that Americans who have babies get $1,000, okay? It's called the Money Account for Growth and Advancement act. Maga. So it's not Make America Great, It's Money Account for Growth. In a minute. So you get a kid, government sends you a thousand bucks. I don't like it, okay? Because it's just too much. What I do like, though, is accounts for children when they're born. I did it for both my urchins. And you can do it, too. And the way to do it is to get your accountant to set up a trust, and you can put money into that trust. Now, a good part of this is this MAGA thing, that Americans could put $5,000 a year into the account for each child, and that wouldn't be. It's not taxed anyway. Because I think you can give 18,000 as gift money now without any tax thing. But why this is important is this. If you start an account for your child when the child is born, by the time the child gets to be 30, child's going to have enough money to buy a house, and that's important. But most parents, they don't do it. So smart life is, you think about stuff like this. You got primary responsibilities to educate your child. I put my kids, both of them, through Catholic schools. Cost me money, but I had the money and a Catholic school. Environment was much better than a public school environment, in my opinion. Okay? They even went to Catholic college. Daughter went to Fordham. My son went to Salve Regina. He's graduating next week. Okay? So I'm willing to do that. And I put away money in the educational fund to pay those bills and I put away other money under the trust for these kids because they're gonna need it. You don't know what's gonna happen in this country. It's hard enough to buy a house now, so smart. Life is. Don't always think about yourself and your new car or whatever. Put the kids first. This is in history. I didn't even know this. May 14, 1878. The last witch trial in Salem. Now, if you read my book, Killing the Witches, you, as I did, thought that the witch trials were over at the end of the 17th century. Okay, that it was over. It was done. No. 1878, a woman named Lucretia Brown, Christian Scientist, accuses Daniel Spofford of harming her through his mental powers. Okay? She's a 50 year old spinster, means unmarried, in Ipswich, Massachusetts, nice town, 12 miles away from Salem. And she get. She said that Daniel injured her spine, okay, and left her disabled. So this was a trial. Now, Spofford refused to show up for the trial and the whole thing just dissipated. It got nowhere. But that was the last Salem witch trial. Now, I hope you read killing the witches. 20 witches, alleged witches were executed in Salem. 19 by hanging. One was pressed to death with stones. It's unbelievable. And I did not know that. The last witch trial, 147 years ago today. Back with a thought about. A final thought. And it will help people that don't have much money. Okay, final thought. I, you know, I get so many letters. I don't have any money. I don't have any money. I don't have any money. And a lot of them are from senior citizens. And if you don't have any money, you're hoes in this country. That's it. You're screwed. There are, however, some safety nets. And here is one of them. Legal aid. It's free. Now, There are about 130 legal aid organizations in every, you know, all across country. You go there and they have attorneys. It's free legal assistance provided to people who are poor. If you make less than 20,000 a year individual, or 40,000 for a family of four, you can get free legal advice from Legal Aid and go in there with it, whatever your problem is, and they will advise you or give you legal counsel or whatever. And this is what you have to do, because you're gonna get it. Every Single American, all 335 million of us, before we die, are gonna have a problem somewhere that you're gonna need help with. And if you can't pay an attorney, you're gonna get it hard. But Legal aid, if you are poor and you don't have any money, they are in business to help you. So find out where your nearest legal aid operation is. That's number one. I feel terrible for it, but this is a capitalist society. You have got to have some assets. Thank you for watching and listening to the no Spin News. We'll see you again tomorrow.