{"id":99002,"date":"2026-08-05T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/bill-oreilly-i-warned-trump-in-private-that-iran-would-be-difficult-my-words-haunt-me-because-its-exactly-how-it-came-down\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:42:01","slug":"bill-oreilly-i-warned-trump-in-private-that-iran-would-be-difficult-my-words-haunt-me-because-its-exactly-how-it-came-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/bill-oreilly-i-warned-trump-in-private-that-iran-would-be-difficult-my-words-haunt-me-because-its-exactly-how-it-came-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill O&#8217;Reilly: I Warned Trump In Private That Iran Would Be Difficult, &#8220;My Words Haunt Me Because It&#8217;s Exactly How It Came Down&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Bill O&#8217;Reilly tells NewsNation host Leland Vittert that he had a private conversation with President Donald Trump in February and warned him that Iran would not surrender and that you cannot depend on the Persian people to overthrow the regime.   &#8220;If he could get out of that thing now, tonight, he would. My own words haunt me,&#8221; O&#8217;Reilly said. &#8220;So in February, I talked to the president. Just him and me. I said, this is the biggest gamble you have ever taken in your entire life messing around with these people. They&#8217;re irrational. They are like the militants in Japan in World War II, in Germany in World War II. They&#8217;re not going to surrender. It&#8217;s going to be exceedingly difficult. And you can&#8217;t count on the Persians to overthrow them. My words haunt me because it&#8217;s exactly how it came down.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/08\/04\/bill_oreilly_i_warned_trump_in_private_that_iran_would_be_difficult_my_words_haunt_me_because_its_exactly_how_it_came_down.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill O&#8217;Reilly tells NewsNation host Leland Vittert that he had a private conversation with President Donald Trump in February and warned him that Iran would not surrender and that you cannot depend on the Persian people to overthrow the regime. &#8220;If he could get out of that thing now, tonight, he would. My own words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3130,5521,334,2645,1851,946,3939,12768,261,489,24676,1360,5395,5154,201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}