Bill O’Reilly tried to goad Donald Trump into saying he’d made a mistake by missing last week’s Fox News debate during Friday’s episode of “The O’Reilly Factor,” asking the GOP candidate “You wanna confirm tonight that I was right?”
Trump refused, saying he didn’t know if his absence had an “impact” on his standing in the Iowa caucus, where he came in second. He stood by his decision to hold a fundraiser for U.S. veterans instead.
O’Reilly burst out laughing, arguing that Trump “could have done that any other day.”
When the GOP candidate’s last visited the “O’Reilly Factor” set, the night before the debate, the Fox host pleaded with him to participate. Trump held firm, despite O’Reilly’s entreaties to his “Christian faith” and his reminder that he had bought the GOP candidate “so many vanilla milkshakes.”
Trump was miffed at the network for issuing a statement implying that he was worried about facing moderator Megyn Kelly’s tough questions.
Watch Trump’s interview with O’Reilly below. The section quoted above begins at the 7 minute mark.
