Bill O'Reilly seemingly defends Trump's refugee plan as a 'brilliant' ploy

Bill O'Reilly takes on Trump's questionable campaigning.
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Bill O'Reilly isn't necessarily rallying behind Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslim refugees from entering the U.S, but in a recent Fox segment with Charles Krauthammer, he certainly didn't condemn the plan, either.

Looking back at a clip from the fifth-round Republican debate in Las Vegas Tuesday night in which Trump calls for closing off parts of the internet to ISIS and questions why terrorists "can kill us, but we can't kill them," Krauthammer is quick to ding the real estate magnate's suggestions as "nonsensical." O'Reilly, however, says he sees Trump's proposal as a "brilliant" vote-getting ploy. "It's designed to get votes," O'Reilly said. "It's designed to get people emotionally allied with him."

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