What Trump Wants Bill O’Reilly, and All of Us, to Forget

“Is there any validity to the criticism of you that you say things you can’t back up factually?” Bill O’Reilly asked President Donald Trump, in a pre-Super Bowl interview in the White House. The President had said, for example, that there were “three million illegal aliens who voted” in the 2016 Presidential election. O’Reilly tilted his head with the air of a man who expected that the two of them were about to make quick work of any misunderstanding about Trump’s relation to the truth. The President just shrugged.