Bill O’Reilly Tells Trump to Send DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to the Bahamas

Bill O’Reilly unloaded on Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Monday, urging President Trump to show him the door after Republicans’ painful midterm losses.

On Monday’s edition of “No Spin News,” O’Reilly broke down Trump’s recent “60 Minutes” interview with Ross Douthat. Reviewing the president’s answers, O’Reilly agreed with Trump’s assessment that ICE’s immigration enforcement tactics sometimes went too far.

O’Reilly said immigration was a major reason Republicans lost Latino voters in the midterms, and argued it was time for Mullin to go.

He said Mullin was worse than his predecessor, Kristi Noem, accusing him of never explaining the department’s actions and calling him arrogant.
O’Reilly added that if it were up to him, Mullin would already be in the Bahamas soaking up the sun.

It is not the first time the veteran broadcaster has gone after Mullin. Last month, O’Reilly criticized the DHS secretary after ICE agents detained Ricardo Gonzalez, a former Long Beach city employee who was left hospitalized with a broken arm. The department did not publicly explain why agents confronted him. O’Reilly said at the time that basic facts should have been released and that staying silent hurt the department, the Trump administration and public confidence. He contrasted Mullin with border czar Tom Homan, whom he praised as a good and effective man.

In his weekly column after the election, O’Reilly wrote that Homeland Security rarely explained its controversies and asked whether anyone even knew what Mullin looked like. He argued the Iran conflict drove up prices for working Americans and fueled the GOP’s losses.

Mullin, a former Republican senator from Oklahoma, became Trump’s second Homeland Security secretary in March after Trump fired Noem over her alleged misuse of government funds.

O’Reilly’s criticism comes as the administration recalibrates its message on immigration following the midterms. In the “60 Minutes” interview, Trump said a large part of the country believes illegal immigrants should be removed while another large part believes they should be allowed to stay. Some conservatives criticized the remarks as a step toward amnesty, and Trump insisted at a press conference Monday that there would be no amnesty.