Grabber in Chief defends fellow offender
Donald Trump kicks off Sexual Assault Awareness Month by defending Bill O’Reilly https://t.co/JtxrlgRUIA pic.twitter.com/5D3qbMK12r
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) April 5, 2017
In an interview with The New York Times on Wednesday, Trump defended O’Reilly after the Times reported that O’Reilly or Fox News paid five women a total of about $13 million to settle claims of sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior over the years.
“I think he’s a person I know well — he is a good person,” Trump said on Wednesday.
“I think he shouldn’t have settled; personally, I think he shouldn’t have settled,” Trump added. “Because you should have taken it all the way. I don’t think Bill did anything wrong.”
O’Reilly has so far stayed silent on the scandal, despite losing at least 15 advertisers for “The O’Reilly Factor,” his primetime Fox News show.