O’Reilly Grills Trump on ‘Totally Wrong’ Tweet; Trump: ‘Am I Gonna Check Every Statistic?’

Yesterday Donald Trump retweeted this graphic from a follower:

"@SeanSean252: @WayneDupreeShow @Rockprincess818 @CheriJacobus pic.twitter.com/5GUwhhtvyN"

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2015

Now, aside from being inaccurate (but really, that’s been kind of Trump’s thing this week), it got a lot of reactions along the lines of “Trump’s a racist.”

Trump appeared on Fox News tonight and Bill O’Reilly actually confronted him over that tweet. He said “this bothered me” and refuted him over the “totally wrong” stats in the tweet.

And the exchange that ensued was, um, quite something:

TRUMP: I didn’t tweet, I retweeted somebody that was supposedly an expert, and it was also a radio show.

O’REILLY: Why do you want to be in that zone?

TRUMP: Hey, Bill, Bill, am I gonna check every statistic? I get millions and millions of people, @RealDonaldTrump, by the way.

O’REILLY: You gotta, you’re a presidential contender, you gotta check ‘em.

TRUMP: I have millions of people… You know what? Fine. But this came out of radio shows and everything else.

O’REILLY: Oh, come on, radio shows?!

TRUMP: All it was was a retweet.

O’Reilly told Trump that putting out things like this easily gives ammo to people accusing him of racism.

Watch the whole thing above, via Fox News.

[image via screengrab]

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